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praying always with all prayer and supplication in [the] Spirit, and watching to this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.


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And pray for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,


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But, so that you also may know my affairs [and] how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in [the] Lord, shall make known to you all things,


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whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that you might know our affairs and [that] he might comfort your hearts.


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And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.


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Slaves, obey [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;


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not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from [the] heart,


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(knowing that whatever good thing he does, he shall receive the same from the Lord, whether [he is] a slave or a freeman).


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And masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening, knowing that your Master also is in Heaven. There is no respect of persons with Him.


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Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons.


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that you may distinguish [between] things that differ, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Jesus Christ,


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being filled [with the] fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.


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But I desire that you should understand, brothers, that the things [which happened] to me have fallen out rather to [the] furtherance of the gospel;


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And most of the brothers in [the] Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.


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Those, indeed, preach Christ out of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds.


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What then? Nevertheless, in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached. And I rejoice in this. Yet, also I will rejoice.


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For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and [the] supply of [the] Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.


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But if [I] live in [the] flesh, this [is] the fruit of [my] labor. Yet I do not know what I shall choose.


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For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.


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And having this confidence, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of faith,


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Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your [affairs], that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,


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and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. [For this is] to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.


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For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,


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being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ,


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even as it is righteous for me to think this of you all, because you have me in your heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partakers of my grace.


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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and [in] all perception;


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If [there is] therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any tendernesses and mercies,


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that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly ones, and of earthly ones, and of ones under [the] earth;


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and [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to [the] glory of God [the] Father.


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Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, cultivate your own salvation with fear and trembling.


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so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,


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holding forth the word of life, so that I may rejoice with you in [the] day of Christ, that I have not run in vain nor labored in vain.


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Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.


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But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, so that I also may be of good comfort when I know [your state].


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then fulfill my joy, that you may be like-minded, having the same love, [being] of one accord and of one mind.


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Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and he who ministered to my wants.


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For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.


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Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.


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[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.


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because for the work of Christ he was near death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.


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but made Himself of no reputation, and took [upon Himself] the form of a servant, and was made in [the] likeness of men.


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And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself [and] became obedient unto death, even [the] death of the cross.


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Finally, my brothers, rejoice in [the] Lord. To write the same things to you is indeed not grievous to me, but for you [it is] safe.


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that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;


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Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.


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My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one [thing I do], forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before,


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Let us therefore, as many as [are] perfect, be of this mind. And if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.


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Brothers, be imitators together of me, and mark those who walk this way, for you have us [for] a pattern.


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(For many are walking, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, [as] the enemies of the cross of Christ;


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whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, [those] who mind earthly things.)


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For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which also we are looking for the Savior, [the] Lord Jesus Christ,


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who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself.


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For we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh;


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though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinks that he has reason to trust in the flesh, I more.


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I was circumcised [the] eighth day, of [the] stock of Israel, [of the] tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, [I was] a Pharisee;


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But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them [to be] dung, so that I may win Christ


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and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through [the] faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,


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Therefore, my brothers, ones loved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand fast in this way in [the] Lord, beloved ones.


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But I rejoiced in [the] Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again. Although you indeed did think, but you lacked opportunity.


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I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.


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Now you Philippians know also that in [the] beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as regards giving and receiving, except you alone.


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But I have all, and abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things [which you sent], an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing to God.


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And I also beg you, true yoke-fellow, help those women who labored in the gospel with me and with Clement, and others of my fellow-laborers, whose names [are] in the Book of Life.


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Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.


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And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.


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Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things [are] honest, whatever [things are] right, whatever [things are] pure, whatever [things are] lovely, whatever things are] of good report; if there is] any virtue and if [there is] any praise, think on these things.


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Do those things which you have also learned and received and heard and seen in me. And the God of peace shall be with you.


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that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,


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being empowered with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,


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giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.


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[For He] has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated [us] into the kingdom of His dear Son;


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For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created through Him and for Him.


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And He is [the] Head of the body, the church, who is [the] Beginning, the First-born from the dead, that He may be pre-eminent in all things.


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to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and from [the] Lord Jesus Christ.


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And through Him having made peace through the blood of His cross, it pleased the Father to reconcile all things to Himself through Him, whether the things on earth or the things in Heaven.


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And you, who were once alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled


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in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish, and without charge in His sight,


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if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [are] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard [and] which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,


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who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which [is] the church;


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of which I became a minister, according to the administration of God given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;


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the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.


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[For to them] God would make known what [are] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,


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whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.


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for the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the Word of the truth of the gospel,


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which has come to you as [it has] also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit, even also among you, since the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth,


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even as you learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,


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For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled [with] the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,


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For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those at Laodicea, and [for] as many as have not seen my face in [the] flesh,


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in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,


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buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.


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And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,


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blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.


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Having stripped rulers and authorities, He made a show of them publicly, triumphing [over] them in it.


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Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths.


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Let no one defraud you, delighting in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, without a cause [being] vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,


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and not holding the Head, from whom all the body, having been supplied through the joints and bands, and having been joined together, will grow with the growth of God.


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that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to [the] full knowledge of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;


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If then you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as [though] living in [the] world, are you subject to [its] ordinances:


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[These] things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed worship and humility, and unsparing severity of the] body, not in any honor for the satisfying of the flesh.


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For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.


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rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.


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Beware lest anyone rob you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.


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If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at [the] right hand of God.


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and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to [the] image of Him who created him,


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where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, slave [or] freeman, but Christ [is] all things in all.


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Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,


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forbearing one another and forgiving yourselves, if anyone has a complaint against any. As Christ forgave you, so also you [do].


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And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you also are called in one body, and be thankful.


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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.


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And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of [the] Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and [the] Father by Him.


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Slaves, obey [your] masters according to the flesh in all things; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.


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knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve [the] Lord Christ.


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But he who does wrong shall receive [justice] for the wrong which he did, and there is no respect of persons.


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Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),


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But now also put off all [these] things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, shameful speech out of your mouth.


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Masters, give to [your] slaves what [is] just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.


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Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (regarding whom you received commandments; if he comes to you, receive him),


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and [greetings from] Jesus, who is called Justus, those being of the circumcision. These alone [are my] fellow-workers for the kingdom of God, who became a comfort to me.


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Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.


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For I bear him record that he has a great zeal for you and for those [who are] in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis.


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And when this letter is read before you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the [letter] of Laodicea.


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And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in [the] Lord, that you fulfill it.


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praying together about us also, that God may open to us a door of the Word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I also have been bound,


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Let your speech [be] always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.


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Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in [the] Lord, will make known to you all things about me.


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I sent [him] to you for this very purpose, that he might know the things about you, and that he might comfort your hearts,


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along with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known to you all things here.


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Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the] Thessalonians, in God [the] Father and in [the] Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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and to wait for His Son from Heaven (whom He raised from [the] dead), Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.


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remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father,


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For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in [the] Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as you know what kind [of men] we were among you for your sake.


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And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, welcoming the word in much affliction, with joy of [the] Holy Spirit,


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For from you the Word of the Lord sounded out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to speak anything.


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For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the] living and true God,


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even as you know how we exhorted and comforted and testified to each one of you, as a father to his children,


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And for this cause we thank God without ceasing, that when you received [the] Word of hearing, of God, you welcomed [it as] the Word of God, not as a word of men, but [as] it is, truly [the] Word of God, which also effectually works in you who believe.


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For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also have suffered these things by [your] own countrymen, even as they also by the Jews;


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who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and [being] contrary to all men,


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forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to [the] uttermost.


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But, my brothers, when we were taken away from you for an hour's time (in presence, not in heart), more abundantly we were eager with much desire to see your face.


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For what [is] our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing? [Are] you not even [to be] in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?


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But also suffering before, being insulted in Philippi, as you know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much agony.


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but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted [with] the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.


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For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God [is] witness.


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Nor did we seek glory from men, neither from you nor from others, being able to be [so] with heaviness, as apostles of Christ.


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So affectionately longing for you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not only the gospel of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.


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For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. [For] laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you.


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night and day praying exceedingly for [me] to see your face and to perfect the things lacking in your faith?


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And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we also toward you,


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in order to establish your hearts blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.


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And we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,


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so that no one should be drawn aside by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to them.


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For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we were going to suffer affliction, as it also happened, even you know.


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For this cause, when I could no longer endure, I also sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter may have tempted you and our labor may have been in vain.


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But now when Timothy came from you to us and brought us good news [of] your faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us (as we also you),


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then, my brothers, we were comforted over you, through your faith, even in all our affliction and needs;


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For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy [with] which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,


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For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort [you] in [the] Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more [and more].


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And indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we beseech you, brothers, that you abound more [and more],


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and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do [your] own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,


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But I would not have you ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, that you be not grieved, even as others who have no hope.


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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.


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For we say this to you by the Word of [the] Lord, that we who are alive [and] remain until the coming of the Lord shall not go before those who are asleep.


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For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first.


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Then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the] clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall ever be with the Lord.


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not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord [is the] avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified).


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But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.


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And, brothers, we beseech you to know those who labor among you, and are over you in [the] Lord, and who admonish you,


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Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.


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See [that] none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.


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And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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For when they shall say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman with child. And they shall not escape.


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But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on [the] breastplate of faith and love and [the] hope of salvation [for] a helmet.


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And it happened after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,


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Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare food for yourselves, for within three days you are crossing over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess it.


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Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you saying, The LORD your God has given you rest and has given you this land.


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Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan. But you shall go armed before your brothers, all the mighty men of valor, and help them


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until the LORD has given your brothers rest, even as you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God gives them; and you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan, towards the sunrise.


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And they answered Joshua, saying: We will do all that you command us, and wherever you send us we will go.


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Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so we will listen to you. Only may the LORD your God be with you as He was with Moses.


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Whoever rebels against your command and will not listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and of a good courage.


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My servant Moses is dead. Now, therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people to the land which I give to them, to the sons of Israel.


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Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, I have given that to you, as I said to Moses.


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From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.


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No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, [so] I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.


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Be strong and of good courage. For you shall divide for an inheritance to this people, the land which I swore to their fathers, to give it to them.


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Only be strong and very courageous so that you may be careful to do according to all the law which My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may act wisely wherever you go.


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This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall act wisely.


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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed. For the LORD your God [is] with you in all places where you go.


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And it happened, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it (as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king) and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,


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And the LORD troubled them before Israel, and killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goes up to Beth-horon, and struck them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.


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And it happened, as they fled from before Israel, and [were] in the descent of Bethhoron, the LORD cast down great stones from the heavens on them to Azekah, and they died. The many who died from hailstones were more than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.


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Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun! Stand still on Gibeon! And, moon, [stand still] in the valley of Aijalon!


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And the sun stood still, and the moon stood [still], until the people [had] avenged themselves on their enemies. [Is] this not written in the Book of Jasher? And the sun stood still] in the midst of the heavens, and did not hasten to go down about a whole day.


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And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man. For the LORD fought for Israel.


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And Joshua said, Roll great stones on the mouth of the cave, and set men by it in order to keep them.


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And do not stay. Pursue your enemies and strike the ones who are behind. Do not allow them to enter into their cities. For the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.


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they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and all of its men were mighty.


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And it happened, when Joshua and the sons of Israel had made an end of killing them [with] a very great slaughter until they were gone, the rest of those [who] remained entered into fortified cities.


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And all the people returned in peace to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah. None moved his tongue against any of the sons of Israel.


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And they did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.


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And it happened, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel. And he said to the commanders of the men of war who had gone with him, Draw near, set your feet on the necks of these kings. And they drew near and put their feet on their necks.


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And Joshua said to them, Do not fear nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage. For so shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom you fight.


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And afterward Joshua struck them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging on the trees until the evening.


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And it happened at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees and threw them into the cave in which they had been hidden, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, [which remain] until this very day.


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And that day Joshua took Makkedah and struck it with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed the king of it, them, and every soul in it. He let none remain. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he did to the king of Jericho.


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And Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,


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And the LORD delivered it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel. And [he] struck it with the edge of the sword, and every soul in it. He let none remain in it, but did to its king as he did to the king of Jericho.


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And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and camped against it, and fought against it.


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And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every soul in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.


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Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people until he had left him none remaining.


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And from Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him. And they camped against it and fought against it.


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And they took it in that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and every soul in it he completely destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.


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And they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king, and all its cities, and every soul in it. He left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but destroyed it, and all the souls that were in it.


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And he took it, and its king, and all its cities. And they struck them with the edge of the sword, and destroyed every soul in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king, as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.


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Come up to me, and help me, so that we may strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel.


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And Joshua struck all the land, the hills, and the south, and the valley, and the springs, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.


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And Joshua took all these kings and their land [at] one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.


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And the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves. And they went up, they and all their armies, and camped before Gibeon, and made war against it.


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And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Do not withhold your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us. For all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have gathered against us.


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So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of war.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. There shall not a man of them stand before you.


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And it happened when Jabin, king of Hazor, had heard, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,


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And Joshua at that time turned back and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword. For Hazor formerly [was] the head of all those kingdoms.


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And they struck every soul in it with the edge of the sword, destroying [them]. And he left none breathing. And he burned Hazor with fire.


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And Joshua took all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them. And he struck them with the edge of the sword. He destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.


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But Israel did not burn any of them, the cities that stood in their strength, except Hazor only. Joshua did burn it.


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And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle the sons of Israel took for a prize to themselves. But they struck every man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left none breathing.


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As the LORD commanded Moses His servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.


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So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountains of Israel, and its lowlands,


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from mount Halak that goes up to Seir, even to Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. And he took all their kings, and struck them and killed them.


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There was not a city that made peace with the sons of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All [others] they took in battle.


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and to the kings on the north of the mountains, and on the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,


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For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts so that they should come against Israel in battle, so that they might be destroyed, so that they might have no favor, but that He might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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At that time Joshua came and cut off the giants from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel. Joshua destroyed them with their cities.


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There were none of the giants left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod there remained some.


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And Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.


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[and to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon, in the land of Mizpeh.


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And they went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.


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And when all these kings had met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver them up, all killed before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.


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And Joshua came suddenly, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom. And they fell on them.


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And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them to great Sidon, and to the salt pits, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. And they struck them until they left them none remaining.


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And Joshua did to them as the LORD commanded him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.


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And these [are] the kings of the land, whom the sons of Israel struck and whose land they possessed on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:


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Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon [and] ruled from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;


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and from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and to the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth, and from the south, under The Slopes of Pisgah.


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And they struck the coast of Og king of Bashan, of the rest of the giants, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,


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and reigned in mount Hermon and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.


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Moses the servant of the LORD and the sons of Israel struck them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave it [for] a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.


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And these [are] the kings of the land which Joshua and the sons of Israel struck on this side Jordan, on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even to the mount Halak that goes up to Seir, which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;


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in the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country--the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:


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Now Joshua [was] old, going on [in] days. And the LORD said to him, You are old, far along in days, [and] there remains yet very much land to be possessed.


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and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the sons of Ammon;


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and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salcah,


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all the kingdom of Og in Bashan (who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei; he remained of the rest of the giants), even Moses struck them and expelled them.


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But the sons of Israel did not put out the Geshurites and the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.


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Only, he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] their inheritance, as He said to them.


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And their coast was from Aroer on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba.


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and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon (whom Moses struck with the rulers of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, rulers of Sihon, the inhabitants of the land).


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The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword, among their slain.


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And the border of the sons of Reuben was Jordan, and [its] border. This [was] the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.


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And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon, to Aroer, before Rabbah,


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And in the valley he gave them Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [its] border, even to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east side Jordan eastward.


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This [is] the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, the cities, and their villages.


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And Moses gave [inheritance] to the half tribe of Manasseh, and this was of the half tribe of the sons of Manasseh by their families.


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from Shihor, which [is] before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite, five lords of the Philistines: of Gaza, of Ashdod, of Ashkelon, of Gath, and of Ekron; also the Avim.


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And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which [are] in Bashan, sixty cities.


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And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were given] to the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to their half of the sons of Machir by their families.


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These [are] they whom Moses caused to inherit in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan by Jericho, eastward.


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But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. The LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as He said to them.


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From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which [belongs] to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites.


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And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon to the border of Hamath,


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all the inhabitants from the hills; from Lebanon to the Burning Waters, [and] all the Sidonians, I will expel them before the sons of Israel. Only you divide it by lot to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.


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And, therefore, divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh,


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with whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance which Moses gave them beyond Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them,


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from Aroer on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba, to Dibon;


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And these [are] they [of] the sons of Israel who inherited in the land of Canaan, whom Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel, gave out for inheritance to them.


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And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive these forty-five years as He said, even since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now, lo, I am eighty-five years old today.


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As yet I [am as] strong today as [I was] in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.


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And now give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke on that day. For you heard in that day [how] the giants [were] there, and that the cities were great and fortified. If the LORD will be with me, then I will be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.


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And Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because he fully followed the LORD God of Israel.


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And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath-arba; that one [was] a great man among the giants. And the land had rest from war.


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Their inheritance [was] by lot, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.


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For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side Jordan. But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.


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For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to live [in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.


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Then the sons of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You know the thing that the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea regarding you and me.


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I [was] forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land. And I brought him word again as it was in my heart.


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But my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I fully followed the LORD my God.


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And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance, and your sons' forever because you have fully followed the LORD my God.


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[This] then was the lot of the tribe of the sons of Judah by their families: to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin southward, in the extreme south.


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And the border went around from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of mount Jearim; it is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah.


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And the border went to the side of Ekron northward, and the border was drawn [to] Shikkeron and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel. And the boundary line was at the Sea.


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And the west border [was] to the Great Sea, and the coast. This is the border of the sons of Judah all around according to their families.


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And he gave a part among the sons of Judah to Caleb the son of Jephunneh, according to the command of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak; it [is] Hebron.


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And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the sons of Anak.


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And he went up from there to those who lived in Debir. And the name of Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher.


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And Caleb said, He who smites Kirjath-sepher, and takes it, I will give my daughter Achsah to him for a wife.


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And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.


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And it happened as she came, she moved him to ask a field from her father. And she dismounted from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What do you [desire] ?


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She answered, Give me a blessing, for you have given me a south land. Give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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And the furthest cities of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,


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And it went out southward to the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed on to Zin, and went up on the south of Kadesh-barnea, and went on to Hezron, and went up toward Adar, and turned toward Karkaa,


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and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities [are] twenty-nine, with their villages.


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and passed on to Azmon, and went out by the torrent of Egypt. And the boundary line was at the Sea. This shall be your south border.


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Ashdod with its towns and its villages; Gaza with its towns and its villages, to the river of Egypt, and the Great Sea, and [its] coast.


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And the east border, the Salt Sea to the end of Jordan, and [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan.


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And the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah. And the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;


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As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out. But the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.


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And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, before the going up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of the river. And the border passed toward the waters of En-shemesh, and its boundary was at En-rogel.


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And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite. It [is] Jerusalem. And the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, at the end of the Valley of the Giants northward.


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And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron. And the border was drawn to Baalah; it [is] Kirjath-jearim.


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And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho through Mount Bethel,


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And they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. But the Canaanites live among the Ephraimites until this day, and serve under tribute.


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and it goes down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth-horon the lower, and to Gezer. And its boundary was at the sea.


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And the border of the sons of Ephraim was by their families: the border of their inheritance on the east side [was] Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the upper.


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And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side. And the border went about eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah.


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And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came again to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.


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The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river Kanah. And the boundary was at the sea. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim by their families.


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And the separate cities for the sons of Ephraim [were] among the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.


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There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh (for he [was] the first-born of Joseph); for Machir, the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.


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Southward [it was] Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's. And the sea is its border. And they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.


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And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and those who lived in Dor and its towns, and those who lived in Endor and its towns, and those who lived in Taanach and its towns, and those who lived in Megiddo and its towns, even three regions.


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Yet the sons of Manasseh were not able to occupy these cities, but the Canaanites wanted to live in that land.


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And it happened when the sons of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute. But they did not completely drive them out.


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The sons of Joseph spoke to Joshua saying, Why have you given me one lot and one portion to inherit, since I [am] a great people, because the LORD has blessed me until now?


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And Joshua answered them, If you [are] a great people, and if mount Ephraim is too narrow for you, get up to the forest and cut down more for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants.


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And the sons of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us. And all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley [have] chariots of iron, those who [are] of Beth-shean and its towns, and those who [are] of the valley of Jezreel.


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And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You [are] a great people and have great power. You shall not have one lot.


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But the mountain shall be yours, for it [is] a forest, and you shall cut it down. And the outer limits of it shall be yours. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and though they [are] strong.


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There was also [a lot] for the rest of the sons of Manasseh by their families: for the sons of Abiezer, and for the sons of Helek, and for the sons of Asriel, and for the sons of Shechem, and for the sons of Hepher, and for the sons of Shemida; these [were] the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their families.


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But Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters. And these [were] the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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And they came near before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the rulers, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers. And according to the command of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.


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And there fell ten portions [to] Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the other side Jordan;


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because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. And the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.


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And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah before Shechem. And the border went up to the right to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.


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Manasseh had the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh [belonged] to the sons of Ephraim.


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And the border went down to the river Kanah, southward of the river. These cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of Manasseh. And the border of Manasseh [was] on the north of the river, and the boundary was at the sea.


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And all the congregation of the sons of Israel gathered at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.


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And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD. And Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel there, according to their divisions.


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And the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up by their families. And the border of their lot came forth between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.


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And their border on the north side was from Jordan. And the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward. And their boundary was at the wilderness of Beth-aven.


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And the border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which [is] Bethel, southward. And the border went down to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lies on the south side of the lower Beth-horon.


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And the border was drawn [from there], and went around the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [is] in front of Beth-horon southward. And its boundary was at Kirjath-baal; it [is] Kirjath-jearim, a city of the sons of Judah. This [was] the west quarter.


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And the south quarter [was] from the end of Kirjath-jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah;


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and the border went down to the end of the mountain that [is] before the valley of the sons of Hinnom, which [is] the Valley of the Giants northward, and went down the valley of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite on the south, and went down to En-rogel.


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And it was drawn from the north and went out to En-shemesh, and went out toward Geliloth, which [is] across from the ascent of Adummim, and went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,


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And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward. And the boundary was at the north tongue of the Salt Sea, at the south end of Jordan. This [was] the south border.


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And there remained among the sons of Israel seven tribes which had not yet received their inheritance.


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And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This [was] the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, according to its borders all around, according to their families.


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And the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,


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and Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] Jerusalem; Gibeath, Kirjath; fourteen cities and their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.


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And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, How long will you fail to go in to possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?


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Give from among you three men for [each] tribe. And I will send them, and they shall rise and go through the land and map it according to the inheritance of them. And they shall come to me.


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And they shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall stay within their border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay within their borders on the north.


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And you shall map the land [into] seven parts and bring it here to me, so that I may cast lots here for you before the LORD our God.


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But the Levites have no part among you. For the priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.


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And the men arose and went away. And Joshua charged those who went to map the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and map it, and come again to me so that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.


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And the men went and passed through the land, and mapped it by cities into seven parts in a book, and they came to Joshua, to the host at Shiloh.


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And the second lot came forth to Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families. And their inheritance was inside the inheritance of the sons of Judah.


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And the third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families. And the border of their inheritance was to Sarid.


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And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is] before Jokneam,


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and turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of The Flames of Tabor, and then goes out to Daberath, and goes up to Japhia,


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and from there it passes on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goes out to Rimmon-methoar, to Neah.


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And the border compasses it on the north side to Hannathon. And its edges were [in] the valley of Jiphthahel,


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and Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities with their villages.


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This [is] the inheritance of the sons of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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And the border reaches to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh. And the edges of their border were at Jordan; sixteen cities with their villages.


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This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.


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and turns toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reaches to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward the north of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goes out to Cabul on the left hand,


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and the border turns to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre. And the border turns to Hosah, and the boundaries of it are at the sea from the line to Achzib,


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This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.


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The sixth lot came out to the sons of Naphtali, for the sons of Naphtali according to their families.


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And their border was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakum. And its boundaries were at Jordan.


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And the border turns west toward Aznoth-tabor, and goes out from there to Hukkok, and reached to Zebulun on the south side, and reaches to Asher on the west side, and to Judah on Jordan toward the sunrise.


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and Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities and their villages.


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This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.


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And the border of the sons of Dan came out [too little] for them. And the sons of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived in it. And [they] called Leshem Dan, after the name of their father Dan.


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When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their borders, the sons of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.


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According to the command of Jehovah they gave him the city which he asked, Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim. And he built the city and lived in it.


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These [are] the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And they finished dividing the land.


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and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the south. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families.


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The inheritance of the sons of Simeon [was] out of the portion of the sons of Judah. For the part of the sons of Judah [was] too much for them; therefore the sons of Simeon had their inheritance within their inheritance.


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And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go look over the land, even Jericho. And they went and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab. And they stayed there.


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For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.


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And we had heard, and our hearts melted, nor did any more spirit remain in any man, because of you. For the LORD your God, He is God in Heaven above and in earth beneath.


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Now therefore, I pray you, swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt with you in kindness, that you will also deal with kindness to my father's house. And give me a true token,


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and shall save alive my father and my mother, and my brothers and my sisters, and all that they [have], and deliver our lives from death.


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And the men answered her, Our life shall be for yours, if you do not tell our business. And when the LORD has given us the land, we will deal kindly and truly with you.


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Then she let them go down by a cord through the window. For her house [was] on the town wall, and she lived on the wall.


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And she said to them, Get up into the mountain lest the pursuers meet you. And hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers have returned. And afterward you may go your way.


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Behold, [when] we come into the land, you shall set this line of scarlet thread in the window from which you let us down. And you shall bring your father and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household, home to you.


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And it shall be, whoever shall go out of the doors of your house, his blood [shall be] on his head, and we [will be] blameless. And whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head if a hand is on him.


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And the king of Jericho was told about it, saying, Behold, men from the sons of Israel came in here tonight, to search out the country.


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And she said, Let [it be] according to your word. And she sent them away, and they departed. And she set the scarlet line in the window.


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And they went and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. And the pursuers looked for [them] throughout all the way, but did not find [them].


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And the two men returned and came down from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun. And they told him all that happened to them.


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And they said to Joshua, Truly the LORD has delivered all the land into our hands, for even all those who live in the country faint because of us.


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And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men that have come to you, those who have entered into your house. For they have come to search out all the country.


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And the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, Two men came to me, but I did not know from where they came.


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And it happened when it was dark, [at the time of] shutting the gate, the men went out. Where the men went I do not know. Go after them quickly, for you shall overtake them.


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But she had brought them up on the roof, and had hidden them with the stalks of flax which she had laid in order upon the roof.


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And the men went after them on the way to Jordan, to the fords. And when they who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.


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And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that your terror has fallen on us, and that all those who live in the land faint because of you.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Appoint cities of refuge for you, as I have spoken to you by the hand of Moses;


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that the manslayer who in innocence strikes [anyone] mortally, without knowing, may flee there. And they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.


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And he shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to themselves and make him a place, and he shall live with them.


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And if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, for he has struck his neighbor without knowing, and did not hate him in past time.


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And he shall live in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest who is in those days. Then the manslayer shall return and come to his city, and to his house, to the city from where he fled.


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And they set apart Kadesh in Galilee, in the hills of Naphtali; and Shechem in the hills of Ephraim; and Kirjath-arba (it [is] Hebron) in the hills of Judah.


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And beyond the Jordan, [at] Jericho eastward, they gave Bezer in the wilderness, on the tableland out of the tribe of Reuben; and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.


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These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel, and for the alien who was living in their midst, that he who had killed [anyone] without knowing might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.


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And the heads of the fathers of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.


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which the sons of Aaron had, [being] of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the sons of Levi, for theirs was the first lot.


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And they gave them the city of Arba, the father of Anak (it [is] Hebron) in the hills of Judah, with its open lands around it.


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But the fields of the city of Arba and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his own.


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And to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron and its open lands [as] a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah and its open lands,


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and Ain and its open lands, and Juttah and its open lands, and Beth-shemesh and its open lands, nine cities from these two tribes.


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And they spoke to them in Shiloh, in the land of Canaan, saying, the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give cities to us to live in, and their open lands for our cattle.


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And the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites who were left of the sons of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe Ephraim.


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And they gave them Shechem and its open lands in mount Ephraim as a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer and its open lands,


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And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach and its open lands, and Gath-rimmon and its open lands; two cities.


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All the cities [were] ten, and their open lands, for the families of the sons of Kohath that were left.


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And to the sons of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, from the half tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and its open lands [as] a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beesh-terah and its open lands; two cities.


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And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance these cities and their open lands, at the command of the LORD:


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And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee and its open lands [as] a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-dor and its open lands, and Kartah and its open lands; three cities.


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All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families [were] thirteen cities and their open lands.


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And to the families of the sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam and its open lands, and Kartah and its open lands,


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And out of tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead and its open lands [as] a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim and its open lands,


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And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron the priest, of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.


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All the cities for the sons of Merari by their families which were left of the families of the Levites, were [by] their lot twelve cities.


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All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the sons of Israel [were] forty-eight cities and their open lands.


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And the LORD gave to Israel all the land which He swore to give to their fathers. And they possessed it, and lived in it.


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And Jehovah gave them rest round about, according to all that He swore to their fathers. And not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Jehovah delivered all their enemies into their hand.


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Not a word failed from any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.


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And the rest of the sons of Kohath [had] by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.


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And the sons of Gershon [had] by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.


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The sons of Merari by their families [had] out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. twelve cities.


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And the sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their open lands, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.


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And they gave out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, these cities which are called by name,


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And when they came to the borders of Jordan in the land of Canaan, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built an altar of grand appearance there by Jordan.


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And the sons of Israel heard, Behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the sons of Israel.


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And when the sons of Israel heard, the whole congregation of the sons of Israel gathered themselves at Shiloh to go to war against them.


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And the sons of Israel sent Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead,


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and with him ten rulers, a ruler from each of the chief houses throughout all the tribes of Israel. And each one [was] a head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.


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And they came to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them saying,


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So says all the congregation of Jehovah: What trespass [is] this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Jehovah, in [that] you have built an altar for you so that you might rebel this day against Jehovah?


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[Is] the iniquity of Peor [too] little for us, from which we have not been made clean until today? Yea, a plague came on the congregation of Jehovah!


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But must you turn away today from following Jehovah? It shall be, you rebel today against the LORD, and tomorrow He will be angry with all the congregation of Israel.


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But surely if the land of your possession [is] unclean, pass over to the land of the possession of the LORD in which the LORD's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us. But do not rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us in building an altar for yourselves besides the altar of Jehovah our God.


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and said to them, You have done all that which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you. And you have listened to my voice, to all that I have commanded you.


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Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a sin in the cursed thing, and did not wrath fall on all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.


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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered and said to the heads of the thousands of Israel,


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Jehovah God of gods, Jehovah God of gods shall know, and Israel shall know if [it is] in rebellion or in transgression against Jehovah (you shall not save us alive today),


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that we have built us an altar to turn from following Jehovah. Or if we have built an altar to offer on it burnt offering or food offering, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let Jehovah Himself require [it].


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And if we have not done it for fear of [this] thing, saying, In time to come your sons might speak to our sons, saying, What have you to do with Jehovah God of Israel?


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For Jehovah has made Jordan a border between us and you, sons of Reuben and sons of Gad. You have no part in Jehovah. And your sons shall make our sons stop fearing Jehovah.


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but it shall be a witness between us and you, and our generations after us, so that we might do the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings; so that your sons may not say to our sons in time to come, You have no part in Jehovah.


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And we said that when they should say so to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Jehovah which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices, but it [is] a witness between us and you.


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Far be it from us that we should rebel against Jehovah and turn this day from following Jehovah, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for food offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of Jehovah our God that [is] before His tabernacle!


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You have not left your brothers these many days until today, and have kept the observance of the command of the LORD your God.


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And Phinehas the priest, and the rulers of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel with him, heard the words that the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke. And it was good in their eyes.


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And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh, Today we see that Jehovah [is] among us, because you have not committed this sin against Jehovah. Now you have delivered the sons of Israel out of the hand of Jehovah.


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And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the rulers, returned from the sons of Reuben, and from the sons of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel, and brought them word again.


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And the thing pleased the sons of Israel. And the sons of Israel blessed God and no more said to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and Gad lived.


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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad proclaimed regarding the altar, that it [was] a witness between us that Jehovah [is] God.


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And now Jehovah your God has given rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them. And now turn and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD has given to you beyond the Jordan.


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Only, diligently take heed to do the commands and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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And to the half tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given [possession] in Bashan. And to its [other] half Joshua had given [possession] with their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. And also when Joshua had sent them away to their tents, then he blessed them.


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And [he] spoke to them, saying, You are returning to your tents with your great treasures, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with bronze, and with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.


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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned. And they departed from the sons of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, of which they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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And it happened many days after the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around, Joshua became old, far along in days.


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One man of you shall chase a thousand. For the LORD your God [is] He who fights for you, as He has promised you.


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Otherwise, if you go back in any way, and hold to those left of these nations, these that remain among you, and shall marry them and go in to them and they to you,


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know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.


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And behold, today I [am] going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your heart and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass to you. Not one thing of it has failed.


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And it shall be, as comes to you every good thing which the LORD your God has spoken to you has come to you, so shall the LORD bring on you every evil thing until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you,


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when you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which He has given to you.


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And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them, I am old, far along in days.


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And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you. For the LORD your God [is] He who has fought for you.


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Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations that are left to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the Great Sea westward.


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And the LORD your God shall put them out from before you, and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God has promised to you.


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And be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you do not turn aside from it [to] the right or to the left;


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so that you do not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves to them.


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For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations. But [as for] you, no one has been able to stand before you to this day.


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And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers. And they presented themselves before God.


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And you went over Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I delivered them into your hand.


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And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites, not with your sword, nor with your bow.


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And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you live in them. You now eat of the vineyards and olive-yards which you did not plant.


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Now, then, fear the LORD, and serve Him in sincerity and truth. And put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.


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And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served Beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.


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For the LORD our God [is] He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. And He did those great wonders in our sight, and kept us in all our way in which we went and among all the people through whom we passed.


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And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We will also serve the LORD, for He [is] our God.


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And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the LORD, for He [is] a holy God. He [is] a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.


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And Joshua said to all the people, So says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers lived Beyond the River in times past, Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.


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If you forsake the LORD and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm, and destroy you after He has done you good.


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And Joshua said to the people, You [are] witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve Him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.


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And Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.


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And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone and set it up there under an oak by the sanctuary of the LORD.


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And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.


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And it happened after these things, Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] a hundred and ten years old.


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And I took your father Abraham from Beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.


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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.


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And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the LORD that He had done for Israel.


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And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a piece of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. And it became the inheritance of the sons of Joseph.


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron died. And they buried him in a hill [belonging] to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.


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And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau Mount Seir for his own, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.


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I sent Moses also, and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them. And afterward I brought you out.


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And I brought your fathers out of Egypt. And you came to the sea, and the Egyptians followed after your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.


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And they cried to the LORD, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them and covered them. And your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.


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And I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived on the other side Jordan. And they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand so that you might possess their land. And I destroyed them from before you.


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Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.


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And Joshua rose early in the morning. And they moved from Shittim and came to Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.


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And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God [is] among you, and He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.


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And it shall be, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that carry the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan shall be cut off [from] the waters that come down from above. And they shall stand all in a heap.


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And it happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over Jordan, and as the priests carried the ark of the covenant before the people,


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and as those who bore the ark had come to Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for Jordan overflows all its banks, all the time of harvest);


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that the waters which came down from above stopped [and] rose up all in a heap, very far from the city Adam that [is] beside Zaretan. And those that came down toward the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over across from Jericho.


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And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of Jordan. And all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people had passed completely over Jordan.


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And [they] commanded the people saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place and go after it.


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Yet keep a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way by which you must go. For you have not passed [this] way before now.


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And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.


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And Joshua spoke to the priests saying, Take up the ark of the covenant and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Today, I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel so that they may know that I will be with you, as I was with Moses.


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And you shall command the priests that carry the ark of the covenant, saying, When you have come to the brink of the water of Jordan, you shall stand still in Jordan.


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And it happened when all the people had completely passed over the Jordan, the LORD spoke to Joshua saying,


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For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished, all that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. And the people hurried and passed over.


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And it happened, when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.


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And the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed in front of the sons of Israel, as Moses spoke to them;


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about forty thousand armed men of the army passed over before the LORD to battle, to the plains of Jericho.


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On that day the LORD made Joshua great in the sight of all Israel. And they feared him, even as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.


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And it happened, when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come up out of the midst of the Jordan, the soles of the feet of the priests were lifted up to the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks, as before.


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And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and camped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.


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And he spoke to the sons of Israel saying, When your sons shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones [mean] ?


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For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you until you had passed over, even as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea which He dried up from before us until we had gone over;


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so that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, [is] mighty and so that you might fear the LORD your God forever.


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and command them saying, Take twelve stones from here, out of the middle of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm. And you shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the place where you shall stay tonight.


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Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared from the sons of Israel, a man out of every tribe.


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And Joshua said to them, Pass over in front of the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. And every man take a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,


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so that this may be a sign to you when your sons ask in time to come, saying, What do you [mean] by these stones?


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Then you shall answer them, The waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off, and these stones shall be for a memorial to the sons of Israel forever.


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And the sons of Israel did as Joshua commanded. And they took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they stayed, and laid them down there;


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even the twelve stones Joshua lifted up in the middle of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant, stood. And they are there to this day.


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And it happened, when all the kings of the Amorites who [were] on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan in front of the sons of Israel until we had passed over, that their hearts melted. Neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the sons of Israel.


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And the sons of Israel camped in Gilgal and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.


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And they ate of the old grain of the land on the next day after the Passover, unleavened cakes and roasted grain in the same day.


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And the manna stopped on the next day after they had eaten the old grain of the land. And there was no more manna to the sons of Israel, but they ate the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.


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And it happened, when Joshua was beside Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked. And, behold, there stood a Man in front of him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, [Are] You for us, or for our foes?


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And He said, No, but I have come [as] the Commander of the army of the LORD. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth. And he worshiped and said to Him, What does my Lord say to His servant?


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And the Commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, Take your shoe off your foot, for the place on which you stand [is] holy. And Joshua did so.


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At that time the LORD said to Joshua, Make sharp knives for yourselves and circumcise the sons of Israel again, the second time.


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And this [is] the reason why Joshua circumcised. All the people that came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the wayside, after they came out of Egypt.


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For all the people who came out were circumcised. But all the people born in the wilderness by the wayside, as they came forth out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.


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For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people, the men of war, who came out of Egypt, were destroyed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD. To them the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that He would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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And Joshua circumcised their sons, [whom] He raised up in their place. For they were not circumcised, because they had not been circumcised by the wayside.


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And it happened when they had finished circumcising all the people, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were well.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. Therefore, the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.


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And Joshua had commanded the people saying, You shall not shout nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall [any] word come out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.


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And the ark of the LORD went around the city, going around [it] once. And they came into the camp and stayed in the camp.


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And seven priests carrying seven ram's horns before the ark of the LORD went on without stopping and blew with the ram's horns. And the armed men went in front of them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the LORD as [the priests were going on and blowing with the ram's horns.


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And it happened on the seventh day they rose early, at the dawning of the day, and circled the city in the same way seven times. Only on that day did they go around the city seven times.


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And it happened, at the seventh time, when the priest blew with the ram's horns, Joshua said to the people, Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!


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And the city shall be devoted to the LORD, it and all in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.


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And you surely shall keep [clear of] the cursed thing, lest you make yourselves cursed when you take of the cursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.


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But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, [are] devoted to the LORD. They shall come into the treasury of the LORD.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given Jericho into your hand, and its king, [and] the mighty men of war.


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And the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the ram's horns. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the ram's horns, and the people shouted with a great shout, the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, each man straight before him. And they took the city.


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And they completely destroyed all in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.


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And Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring the woman out from there, and all that she has, as you swore to her.


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And the young men who were spies went in and brought Rahab out, and her father and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had. And they brought out all her kindred and set them outside the camp of Israel.


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And they burned the city with fire, and all that [was] in it. Only the silver and the gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.


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And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had. And she lives in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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And Joshua charged [them] at that time, saying, Cursed before the LORD [is] the man who rises up and builds this city of Jericho. He shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and in his youngest [son] he shall set up the gates of it.


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And you shall go around the city, all the men of war. Go around the city once. So you shall do for six days.


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And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of ram's horns in front of the ark. And the seventh day you shall go around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.


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And it shall be when they make a long [blast] with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout. And the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, each man straight before him.


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And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven ram's horns in front of the ark of the LORD.


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And he said to the people, Pass on, and go around the city. And let him who is armed pass on in front of the ark of the LORD.


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And it happened when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven ram's horns passed on before the LORD and blew the ram's horns. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.


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And the armed men went before the priests who blew with the ram's horns. And the gathering army came after the ark, as [the priests] were going on and blowing with the ram's horns.


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But the sons of Israel committed a sin in the cursed thing. For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the thing which was cursed. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against the sons of Israel.


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Israel has sinned, and they have also broken My covenant which I commanded them, and have even taken of the cursed things, and have also stolen and pretended falsely. And they have even put [it] among their own stuff.


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And the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies. They will turn [their] backs before their enemies, because they have become cursed. I will not be with you again, unless you destroy the one who is cursed from among you.


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Up! Sanctify the people and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow. For thus says the LORD God of Israel, A cursed thing is] in the midst of you, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the cursed thing from among you.


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And in the morning, you shall be brought according to your tribes. And it shall be, the tribe which the LORD takes shall come, according to its families. And the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households. And the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.


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And it shall be, he who is taken with the cursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all he has, because he has broken the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done wickedness in Israel.


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And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes. And the tribe of Judah was taken.


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And he brought the families of Judah. And he took the family of the Zerahites. And he took the family of the Zerahites man by man. And Zabdi was taken.


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And he brought his household man by man. And Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.


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And Joshua said to Achan, My son, I pray you, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to Him. And tell me now what you have done. Do not hide [it] from me.


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And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Bethel. And he spoke to them, saying, Go up and look over the country. And the men went up and spied out Ai.


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And Achan answered Joshua and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this I have done.


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When I saw among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, I coveted them and took them. And behold, they [are] hidden in the earth in the middle of my tent, and the silver under it.


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And Joshua sent messengers, and they ran into the tent. And behold, [it was hidden] in his tent, and the silver under it.


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And they took them out of the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the sons of Israel. And they laid them out before the LORD.


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And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had. And they brought them to the valley of Achor.


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And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? The LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.


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And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. And the LORD turned from the greatness of His anger. Therefore, the name of that valley is called, The Valley of Grief, to this day.


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And they returned to Joshua and said to him, Let not all the people go up. But let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Do not make all the people labor there, for they [are] few.


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And the men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, for they chased them [from] before the gate to Shebarim, and struck them in the road going down. Therefore the hearts of the people melted and became as water.


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And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust on their heads.


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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, why have You at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? And, oh that we had been content and lived on the other side Jordan!


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For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear, and shall surround us, and shall cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not fear, nor be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.


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And Joshua rose up early in the morning and called up the people. And [they] went up, he and the elders of Israel, in the sight of the people of Ai.


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And all the people of war with him went up and drew near. And they came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai. And a valley [was] between them and Ai.


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And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.


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And when they had set the people, all the army that [was] on the north of the city, and its rear [ambush] on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.


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And it happened, when the king of Ai saw, they hurried and rose up early. And the men of the city went out to do battle against Israel, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the plain. But] he did not know that [there were] some lying in ambush against him behind the city.


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And Joshua and all Israel acted as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.


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And all the people in Ai were called together to run after them. And they ran after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.


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And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, who did not go after Israel. And they left the city open, and ran after Israel.


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And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear in his hand toward the city.


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And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand. And they entered into the city, and took it, and hurried and set the city on fire.


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And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take for a prize for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.


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And the men of Ai looked behind them and saw. And, behold, the smoke of the city went up into the sky, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. And the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.


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And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned again and killed the men of Ai.


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And the others came out of the city against them. So they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And they struck them so that they let none of them remain or escape.


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And it happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all those who lived in Ai, in the field and in the wilderness where they chased them, and when they had all fallen on the edge of the sword until they were gone, all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.


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For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the people of Ai.


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Only, Israel took the cattle and the spoil of that city for a prize for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which He commanded Joshua.


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And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his body down from the tree and throw it down at the entrance to the gate of the city, and raise on it a great heap of stones, to this day.


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So Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up against Ai. And Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, mighty warriors, and sent them away by night.


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as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones over which no man has lifted [any] iron. And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.


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And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the sons of Israel.


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And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark, and on that side, before the priests the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as the homeborn among them, half of them over against Mount Gerizim, and half of them over against Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before that they should bless all the people of Israel.


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And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.


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There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them.


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And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you [will be] an ambush against the city, behind the city. You shall not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.


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And I, and all the people with me, shall go toward the city. And it shall be, when they come out against us, as at the first, we will flee before them,


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(for they will come out after us,) until we have drawn them out of the city. For they will say, They flee before us, even as at the first. And we will flee before them.


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Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize on the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.


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And it shall be, when you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire, according to the command of the LORD you shall do. See, I have commanded you.


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And Joshua sent them out. And they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai. But Joshua stayed that night among the people.


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And it happened, when all the kings who [were] on this side Jordan, in the hills and in the valleys, and in all the coast of the great sea over against Lebanon heard, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,


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and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who [were] beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.


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And our elders and all those who live in our country spoke to us saying, Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them. Say to them, We [are] your servants. And now make a treaty with us.


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We took this bread hot [for] our provision out of our houses on the day we came out to go to you. But now, see, [it is] dry, and it is moldy.


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And these wineskins which we filled [were] new. And, see, they are torn. And these clothes and shoes of ours have become old because of the very long journey.


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And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them, to let them live. And the rulers of the congregation swore to them.


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And it happened at the end of three days after they had made a treaty with them, they heard that they [were] their neighbors and that they lived among them.


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And the sons of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.


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And the sons of Israel did not strike them, because the rulers of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the rulers.


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But all the rulers said to the congregation, We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. Now, therefore, we may not touch them.


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This we will do to them. We will even let them live, lest wrath be on us because of the oath which we swore to them.


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And the rulers said to them, Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the rulers had promised them.


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And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you fooled us saying, We [are] very far from you, when you dwell among us?


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And now you [are] cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being slaves and woodcutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.


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And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told your servants how the LORD your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all those who lived in the land from before you; therefore, we were very much afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.


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And so he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the sons of Israel, so that they did not kill them.


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And Joshua made them that day woodcutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even to this day, in the place which He should choose.


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they worked slyly. For they came and acted as if they were ambassadors. And they took old sacks on their asses, and old and torn and bound up wineskins,


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and old and patched sandals on their feet, and old clothes on them. And all the bread they had taken was dry [and] moldy.


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And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country. Now therefore, make a treaty with us.


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And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you are living among us, and how shall we make a treaty with you?


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And they said to Joshua, We [are] your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who [are] you, and from where do you come?


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And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the LORD your God. For we have heard of His fame and all that He did in Egypt,


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Paul and Silvanus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.


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when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day.


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Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of the calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,


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that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.


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We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;


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so much so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure.


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For [this is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer,


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and to give rest with us to you who are troubled, at the revealing of the Lord Jesus from Heaven with the angels of His power,


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in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,


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who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,


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Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,


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and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.


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But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of [the] Spirit and belief of [the] truth,


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Therefore, my brothers, stand fast and hold the teachings which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.


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Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,


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that you should not be soon shaken [in] mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as [if] the Day of Christ is at hand.


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Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For [that Day shall not come] unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,


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who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.


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For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he [is] now holding back until it comes out of the] midst.


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And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming,


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Finally, my brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have [free] course and be glorified, even as [it] also is] with you.


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For even when we were with you, we commanded you this, that if anyone would not work, neither should he eat.


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For we hear that there are some who walk disorderly among you, not working at all, but being busybodies.


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Now we command and exhort those who are such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.


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And if anyone does not obey our word by this letter, mark that one and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.


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And pray that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all [do] not have] the faith.


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And we have confidence in [the] Lord regarding you, that you both do and will do the things which we command you.


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Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly, and not after the teaching which he received from us.


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For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us. For we did not behave ourselves disorderly among you,


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neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the command of God our Savior, and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,


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for fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and anything else that is contrary to sound doctrine,


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And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who strengthened me, because He counted me faithful, putting [me] into the ministry--


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the [one] who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent. But I obtained mercy, because being ignorant, I did [it] in unbelief.


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Faithful [is] the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.


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But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, as a pattern to those being about to believe on Him to life everlasting.


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Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, [the] only wise God, [be] honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.


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This charge I commit to you, [my] son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before [about] you, in order that you might war a good warfare by them,


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to Timothy, [my] own son in [the] faith. Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.


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Among these are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme.


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Even as I begged you to remain at Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that you might charge some that they teach no other doctrine,


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nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies (which provide doubts rather than the] nurture of God in faith).


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But the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned,


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knowing this, that the law [is] not made for a righteous one, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,


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First of all, then, I exhort [that] supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks be made for all men,


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But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness.


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for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.


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To this I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of [the] nations, in faith and truth.


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In the same way also, I desire that women adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and sensibleness, not [adorned] with braiding, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,


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For they having served well gain a good grade for themselves, and much boldness in the faith, those in Christ Jesus.


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But if I should delay, that you may know how you ought to behave in the house of God, which is [the] church of the living God, [the] pillar and foundation of the truth.


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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among nations, believed on in [the] world, and received up into glory.


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Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,


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But he must also have a good report from those on the outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.


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Likewise the deacons [are to be] reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of ill gain,


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But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,


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For to this we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the preserver of all men, especially of those who believe.


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Let no one despise your youth, but be an example of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.


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Do not neglect the gift in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the body of elders.


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Hold on to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this you shall both save yourself and those who hear you.


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forbidding to marry, [saying] to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.


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Having suggested these things to the brothers, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and by the good doctrine which you have followed.


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For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.


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well reported of for good works: if she brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of saints, if she relieved the afflicted, if she followed after every good work.


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And with it all they also learn [to be] idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.


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Therefore I want the younger ones to marry, bear children, guide the house, giving no occasion to the adversary because of reproach.


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If any believing man or believing woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be charged, so that it may relieve those who are widows indeed.


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Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in word and doctrine.


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For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle the ox treading out grain, and, The laborer [is] worthy of his reward.


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I charge [you] before God and [the] Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.


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Do not lay hands quickly on anyone, neither be partaker of [the] sins of others. Keep yourself pure.


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Drink water no longer, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake, and for your frequent infirmities.


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Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand, and those who are otherwise cannot be hidden.


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But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to [their] forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.


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But she being really a widow, and having been left alone, has set her] hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.


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But if anyone does not provide for [his] own, and especially [his] family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.


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Let as many slaves as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed.


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For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.


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But you, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.


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Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.


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I charge you before God (who makes all things alive) and [in the sight of] Christ Jesus (who witnessed the good confession to Pontius Pilate),


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that you keep the commandment without spot and without blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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For He in His own time will reveal [who is] the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,


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who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.


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Charge the rich in this world that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, He offering to us richly all things to enjoy,


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laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.


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And those who have believing masters, let them not despise [them] because they are brothers. But rather let them serve, because they are faithful and beloved, those of the good service receiving in return. Teach and exhort these things.


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O Timothy, guard the Deposit, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of falsely-named science,


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If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words (those of our Lord Jesus Christ), and to the doctrine according to godliness,


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he is proud, knowing nothing. [He is] sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions,


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meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.


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But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.


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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which [is] in Christ Jesus,


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But it is now having been manifested by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has made death of no effect, bringing life and immortality to light through the gospel;


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For this cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard My deposit unto that Day.


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Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love [which is] in Christ Jesus.


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This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.


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May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed [of] my chain.


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May the Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from [the] Lord in that Day. And in what things he ministered [to me] at Ephesus, you know very well.


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to Timothy, [my] dearly beloved child. Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


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I thank God, whom I serve from [my] forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,


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taking recollection of the unfeigned faith that is in you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice. And I am persuaded that it is in you also.


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Therefore I remind you to inflame anew the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands.


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Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor [of] me His prisoner. But be partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to [the] power of God,


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who has saved us and called [us] with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times.


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Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.


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Put [them] in memory of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers.


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[Study] earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.


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who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and who overthrow the faith of some.


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Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal: The] Lord knew those who are His. And, Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity!


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And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.


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But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.


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Therefore if anyone purges himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honor, sanctified and useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.


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But flee youthful lusts, and follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.


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in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of [the] truth,


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and [that] they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.


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No one who wars tangles with the affairs of [this] life, that he may please him who chose [him] to be a soldier.


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But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,


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persecutions, afflictions, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of all.


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But continue in the things that you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned [them],


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and that from a babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.


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All Scripture [is] God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,


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For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,


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without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good,


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For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts,


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But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.


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But they shall proceed no further. For their foolishness shall be plain to all, as theirs also became.


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Therefore I solemnly witness before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge [the] living and [the] dead according to His appearance and His kingdom,


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For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and [he] has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.


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Only Luke is with me. Take Mark [and] bring [him] with you, for he is profitable to me for [the] ministry.


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When you come, bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments.


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Alexander the coppersmith showed many evil things to me. The Lord will give back to him according to his works.


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But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, that through me the preaching might be fulfilled, and [that] all the nations might hear. And I was delivered out of [the] mouth of the] lion.


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And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve [me] to His heavenly kingdom, to whom [be] glory forever and ever. Amen.


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preach the Word, be instant in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.


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Try to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brothers.


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For a time will be when they will not endure sound doctrine, but they will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts, tickling the ear.


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But you watch in all things, endure afflictions, do [the] work of an evangelist, fully carry out your ministry.


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Now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that Day; and not to me only, but also to all those who love His appearing.


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Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ (according to [the] faith of God's elect, in the acknowledging of [the] truth which is according to godliness


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For there are indeed many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of [the] circumcision,


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whose mouth [you] must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain.


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To the pure all things [are] pure. But to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.


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They profess that they know God, but in [their] works they deny [Him], being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.


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but revealed His word in its own times in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted by [the] command of God our Savior,)


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to Titus, a true child according to [our] common faith. Grace mercy and peace from God [the] Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.


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For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you,


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if anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, having believing children, not accused of loose behavior, or disobedient.


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For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not full of passion, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain;


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holding fast the faithful word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.


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not stealing, but showing all good faith, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.


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teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,


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looking for the blessed hope, and the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,


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who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to Himself a special people, zealous of good works.


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Let the aged women likewise [be] in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of good;


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[to be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to [their] own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed.


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In all things having shown yourself a pattern of good works: in the doctrine, purity, sensibleness, without corruption,


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[in] sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.


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Slaves [are] to be obedient to [their] masters, to please them well in all [things], not talking against,


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Put them in mind to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to every good work,


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When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.


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And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, so that they may not be unfruitful.


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All those with me greet you. Greet those who love us in [the] faith. May grace [be] with you all. Amen.


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For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.


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not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,


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Faithful [is] the Word, and as to these things, I desire that you strongly affirm that those believing God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.


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But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.


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Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy [our] brother, to Philemon the beloved and fellow laborer,


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whom I resolved to retain with myself, so that for you he might have ministered to me in the bonds of the gospel.


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But without your consent I was willing to do nothing, that your good should not be of necessity, but willingly.


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For perhaps because of this he was separated from you for an hour, that you should receive him eternally,


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not now as a slave, but beyond a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the] flesh and in the] Lord.


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I, Paul, wrote it] with my own] hand; I will repay, that I do not say to you that you owe even yourself to me also.


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that the fellowship of your faith may operate in a full knowledge of every good thing in you in Christ Jesus.


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For we have great joy and consolation over your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.


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rather through love I entreat, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.


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And, You, Lord, have laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of Your hands.


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and as a covering You shall fold them up, and [they] shall be changed. But You are the same, and Your years shall not fail.


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But to which of the angels, did He say at any time, Sit on My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool?


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Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?


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has in these last days spoken to us by His] Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds,


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who being the shining splendor of [His] glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power, through Himself cleansing of our sins, [He] sat down on [the] right of the Majesty on high,


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being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.


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For to which of the angels did He say at any time, You are My Son, this day I have begotten You? And again, I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?


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And again, when He brings in the First-born into the world, He says, And let all [the] angels of God worship Him.


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But to the Son [He says], Your throne, O God, [is] forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness [is] the scepter of Your kingdom.


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You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.


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For the Law which has a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things, [appearing] year by year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, they are never able to perfect those drawing near.


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And indeed every priest stands daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.


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This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,


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For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin.


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by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh;


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let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and [our] bodies having been washed with pure water.


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not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is], but exhorting [one another], and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.


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For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,


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but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.


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Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the [one] who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?


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For we know Him who has said, Vengeance [belongs] to Me, I will repay, says [the] Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge His people.


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But call to memory the former days, in which (after you were illuminated) you endured a great fight of afflictions,


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indeed being exposed both by reproaches and afflictions, and while you became companions of those who lived so.


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For you both sympathized with my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.


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For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.


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But we are not of those] withdrawing to destruction, but of those who believe to [the] preserving of [the] soul.


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Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a body for Me.


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Above, when He said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin You did not desire, neither did You have pleasure in them (which are offered according to the Law),


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then He said, Lo, I come to do Your will, O God. He takes away the first so that He may establish the second.


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By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised [to be] faithful.


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Because of this came into being [from] one, and that of one] having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.


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These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of [them] and embraced [them] and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.


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And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from which they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.


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But now they stretch forth to a better [fatherland], that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.


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By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises offered up his only-begotten [son],


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concluding that God [was] able to raise him up, even from [the] dead, from where he even received him, in a figure.


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By faith Jacob, [when he was] dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, [leaning] upon the top of his staff.


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By faith, Joseph dying remembered concerning the Exodus of the sons of Israel and gave orders concerning his bones.


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By faith Moses, having been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw [he was] a beautiful child. And they were not afraid of the king's commandments.


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choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,


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esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.


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By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.


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Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest He who destroyed the first-born should touch them.


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By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry [land], which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.


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By faith we understand that] the ages were] framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.


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By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.


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And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah; also David, and Samuel and the prophets,


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who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped [the] mouths of lions,


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quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the strangers.


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Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.


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They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.


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The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth.


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By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness [that he] was righteous, God testifying of his gifts. And by it he, being dead, yet speaks.


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By faith Enoch was translated [so as] not to see death, and he was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.


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But without faith [it is] impossible to please [Him], for he who comes to God must believe that He is and [that] He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.


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By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to [the] saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness [which is] according to faith.


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By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And [he] went out, not knowing where he went.


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By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise with him.


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Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,


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For truly they chastened [us] for a few days according to their own pleasure, but He for our profit, that [we] might be partakers of His holiness.


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Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.


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And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but let it rather be healed.


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looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God, or lest any root of bitterness springing up disturb [you], and by it many are defiled,


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(lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.


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For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he did not find any place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears).


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For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,


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and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words (which [voice] they who heard begged that a word should not be spoken to them any more,


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looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured [the] cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right of the throne of God.


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for they could not endure the thing commanded, And if so much as a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart,


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But you have come to Mount Zion and to [the] city of [the] living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,


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to the [general] assembly and church of the first-born who are written in Heaven, and to God [the] judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,


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and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than [that of] Abel.


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See [that] you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we [shall not escape] if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,


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whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, Yet once more I will not only shake the earth, but also the heavens.


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And this [word], Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, so that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.


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Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear,


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For consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and faint in your minds.


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And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him;


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If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father does not chasten?


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But if you are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then you are bastards and not sons.


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Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?


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For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the [Holy of] Holies by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.


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Therefore Jesus also, so that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.


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By Him, then, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, [the] fruit of [our] lips, confessing His name.


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Yield to those leading you, and be submissive, for they watch for your souls, [as those who must] give account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief; for that [is] unprofitable for you.


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Now may the God of peace (who brought again our Lord Jesus from [the] dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through [the] blood of the everlasting covenant)


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make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that [which] is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] glory forever and ever. Amen.


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And I beseech you, brothers, allow the word of exhortation. For I have written a letter to you in few words.


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Know that [our] brother Timothy has been set at liberty, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.


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Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with [them], those who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.


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Marriage [is] honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.


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[Let your] way of life [be] without the love of money, [and be] content with such things as you have, for He has said, Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you, never!


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Remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conduct:


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Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for [it is] good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked [in them] were not helped.


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Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let [them] slip.


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For it became Him, for whom [are] all things and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Captain of their salvation through sufferings.


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For both He who sanctifies and they who are sanctified [are] all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,


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saying, I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.


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Since then the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise partook of the same; that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death (that is, the Devil),


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Therefore in all things it behoved him to be made like [His] brothers, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of [His] people.


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For in that He Himself has suffered, having been tempted, He is able to rescue those who are being tempted.


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For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and if every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,


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how shall we escape [if] we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by those who heard [Him];


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God [also] bearing [them] witness, both with signs and wonders, and with different kinds of miracles and gifts [of the] Holy Spirit, according to His own will?


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But one testified in a certain place, saying, What is man, that You are mindful of him; or the son of man, that You visit him?


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You have made him a little lower than [the] angels. You crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of Your hands.


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You subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to Him, He did not leave anything not subjected to Him. But now we do not see all things having been subjected to him.


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But we see Jesus, who [was] made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He by [the] grace of God should taste death for every [son].


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Therefore, holy brothers, called [to be] partakers of the heavenly [calling], consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,


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Therefore I was grieved with that generation and said, They always err in [their] heart, and they have not known My ways.


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Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from [the] living God.


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But exhort one another daily, while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through [the] deceitfulness of sin.


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For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to [the] end,


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But with whom was He grieved forty years? [Was it] not with those who had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?


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And to whom did He swear [that they should] not enter into His rest, but to those who did not believe?


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For He was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house.


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And Moses truly [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken afterward.


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But Christ [was faithful] as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.


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Therefore, a promise being left to enter into His rest, let us fear lest any of you should seem to come short of it.


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Therefore let us labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.


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For the word of God [is] living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to [the] dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.


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Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things [are] naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.


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Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our] profession.


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For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted just as [we are, yet] without sin.


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Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.


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For also we have had the gospel preached, as well as them. But the word [preached] did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard [it].


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For we who have believed do enter into the rest, as He said, I have sworn in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.


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For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh [day] in this way: And God rested the seventh day from all His works.


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Since then it remains that some must enter into it, and since they to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief,


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He again marks out a certain day, saying in David, Today, (after so long a time). Even as it is said, Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.


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For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things [pertaining] to God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,


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For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what [are] the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become [in] need of milk, and not of solid food.


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But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, [even] those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.


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who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are out of the way. For he himself also is compassed with weakness.


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So also Christ did not glorify Himself to be made a high priest, but He who said to Him, You are My Son, today I have begotten You.


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[For Jesus], in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared,


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Therefore, having left the discourse of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to full growth, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,


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For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.


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And we desire that each one of you show the same eagerness to the full assurance of hope to [the] end,


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that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.


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In this way desiring to declare more fully to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, God interposed by an oath,


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so that by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible [for] God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before [us],


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which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil,


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of [the] baptisms, of doctrine, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.


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where the Forerunner has entered for us, even] Jesus, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.


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For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of [the] Holy Spirit,


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and who have fallen away; it is impossible, I say, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify the Son of God afresh to themselves and put [Him] to an open shame.


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(For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth plants fit for those by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God.


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But [that which] bears thorns and briers [is] rejected and [is] a curse, whose end [is] to be burned.)


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But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this way.


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For this Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him.


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Therefore if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?


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For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man gave attendance at the altar.


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For [it is] evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.


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And it is still far more evident, since there arises another priest after the likeness of Melchizedek,


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who is made, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.


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For truly there] is a putting away of the commandment which went before, because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it.


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For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did], by which we draw near to God.


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To him Abraham also gave a tenth of all. [He was] first by interpretation king of righteousness, and after that also king of Salem, which is king of peace,


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(for those priests were made without an oath, but this one was made with an oath by Him who said to Him, The Lord swore and will not repent, You [are] a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek,)


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Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by Him, [since He] ever lives to make intercession for them.


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For such a high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens,


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who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice daily, first for his own [sins] and then for the people's sins. For He did this once for all, when He offered up Himself.


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For the Law appoints men high priests who have infirmity, but the word of the swearing of an oath, after the Law, [has consecrated] the Son forever, having been perfected.


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without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, [he] remains a priest continually.


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Now consider how great this man [was], to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.


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And truly they [who are] of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priest, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Law, that is, from their brothers, though they come out of the loins of Abraham.


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But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.


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And here men who die receive tithes; but there he [receives them], of whom it is witnessed that he lives.


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Now the sum of the things which we have spoken [is this]: We have such a High Priest, who has sat down on [the] right of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven,


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For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their mind and write them in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.


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And they shall not each man teach his neighbor, and each man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.


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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more.


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In that He says, A new [covenant], He has made the first one old. Now that which decays and becomes old [is] ready to vanish away.


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For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore [it is] necessary that this One have something to offer also.


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For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the Law,


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who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says See [that] you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain.


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But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which was built upon better promises.


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For if that first [covenant] had been without fault, [then] no place would have been sought for the] second.


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For finding fault with them, He said to them, Behold, days are coming, says [the] Lord, and I will make an end on the house of Israel and on the house of Judah; a new covenant shall be,


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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day I took hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.


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[which stood] only in meats and drinks, and different kinds of washings and fleshly ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.


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But when Christ had become a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building


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nor by the blood of goats and calves, but by [His] own blood [He] entered once for all into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption [for us].


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For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh,


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how much more shall the blood of Christ (who through [the] eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve [the] living God?


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And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.


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For a covenant [is] affirmed over [those] dead, since it never has force when The one covenanting is living.


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For [when] Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law, [he] took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,


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For the first tabernacle was prepared, in which [was] both the lampstand, and the table, and the setting out of the loaves, which is called Holies.


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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission.


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Therefore [it was] necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified [with] these, but the heavenly things themselves were purified] with better sacrifices than these.


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For Christ has not entered into the [Holy of] Holies made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.


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Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, even as the high priest enters into the [Holy of] Holies every year with the blood of others


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(for then He must have suffered often since [the] foundation of the world), but now once in the end of the world He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.


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so Christ was once offered to bear [the] sins of many. And to those who look for Him He shall appear the second [time] without sin to salvation.


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having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all around with gold, in which [was] the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.


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And over it were the cherubs of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat (about which we cannot now speak piece by piece.


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Now when these things were ordained in this way, the priests always went into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service [of God].


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But once [in] the year into the second the high priest [goes] alone, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people)


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the Holy Spirit signifying [by] this [that] the way into the Holiest of all was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.


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For it [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him who did the service perfect as regards the conscience,


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James, a servant of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting:


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and the rich one [rejoice] in his humiliation, because he shall pass away as the flower of the grass.


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For the sun rose with the hot wind and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also the rich one will fade away in his ways.


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Blessed [is] the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.


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Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God is not tempted by evils, and He tempts no one.


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Then when lust has conceived, [it] brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.


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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning.


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Of [His own] will He brought us forth with [the] Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.


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Therefore putting aside all filthiness and overflowing of evil, receive in meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls.


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For if anyone is a hearer of [the] Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror.


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But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [in it], he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of [the] work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.


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If anyone thinks to be religious among you, [yet] does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this one's religion [is] vain.


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Pure religion and undefiled before God and [the] Father [is] this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.


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But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, [who] gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.


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But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave of [the] sea, driven by the wind and tossed.


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My brothers, do not have the faith of our Lord Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respecter of faces.


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For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. But if you do not commit adultery, yet if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.


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My brothers, what profit [is it] if a man says he has faith and does not have works? Can faith save him?


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and if one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them those things which are needful to the body, what good [is it] ?


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But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith from my works.


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For if there comes a gold-fingered man in fancy clothing into your assembly, and if there also comes in a poor man in shabby clothing,


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And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.


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And in the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she had received the messengers and had [sent] them out another way?


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and if you have respect to him who has the fancy clothing and say to him, You sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, You stand there, or sit here under my footstool;


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Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?


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But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?


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If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.


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Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain [can] yield both salt water and fresh.


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Who [is] wise and knowing among you? Let him show his works by [his] good conduct with meekness of wisdom.


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But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.


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For [in] many [things] we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same [is] a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body.


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Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body.


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Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires.


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Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!


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And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.


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For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of sea-animals, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.


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By this we bless God, even [the] Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God.


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From where do wars and fightings among you [come]? [Is it] not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?


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Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against [his] brother, and who judges his brother, speaks against the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.


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Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit,


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who do not know of the morrow. For what [is] your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.


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You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not because you ask not.


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Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity [with] God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.


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But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.


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Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones.


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Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and [your] joy to heaviness.


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My brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of [the] Lord, [for] an example of suffering ill, and of patience.


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Behold, we count blessed those who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is full of pity and of tender mercy.


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But before all things, my brothers, do not swear; neither by the heaven nor by the earth, nor any other oath. But let your yes be yes, and [your] no, no, lest you fall into condemnation.


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Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.


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And the prayer of faith will cure the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, it will be forgiven him.


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Confess faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. [The] effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much.


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Elijah was a man of like passion as we are. And he prayed earnestly [that it] might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for the time of three years and six months.


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know that he who turns back the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.


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Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days.


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Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of [the] Lord of hosts.


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You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.


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Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and has long patience for it, until he receives [the] early and the latter rain.


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Do not grudge against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned. Behold, [the] Judge stands before the door.


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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to [the] elect sojourners of [the] Dispersion of Pontus, of Galatia, of Cappadocia, of Asia, and of Bithynia,


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About which salvation the prophets sought out and searched out, prophesying concerning the grace for you;


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searching for what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ made clear within them, testifying beforehand of the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow.


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To them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us, they ministered the things which are now reported to you by those who have preached the gospel to you in [the] Holy Spirit sent from Heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.


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Therefore girding up the loins of your mind, being sober, perfectly hope for the grace being brought to you at [the] revelation of Jesus Christ,


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And if you call on [the] Father, who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, pass the time of your [earthly] residence in fear,


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knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from [your] fathers,


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according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of [the] Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of [the] blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.


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indeed having been foreknown before [the] foundation of [the] world, but revealed in [the] last times for you,


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those believing in God through Him, He who raised Him up from [the] dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.


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Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,


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having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living word of God, and abiding forever.


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For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,


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Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us again to a living hope through [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ from [the] dead,


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by [the] power of God, having been kept through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;


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so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,


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whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,


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Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,


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[you] who then were not a people, but now the people of God, those not pitied [then], but now pitied.


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Dearly beloved, I exhort [you] as [temporary] residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,


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having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of [His] visitation, seeing [your] good works.


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Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear, not only to those good and forbearing, but also to the perverse ones.


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For what glory [is it] if you patiently endure [while] sinning and being buffeted? But if you suffer [while] doing good, and patiently endure, this [is] a grace from God.


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For you were not called to this? For Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,


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who when He was reviled did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but gave [Himself] up to Him who judges righteously.


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[He] Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.


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For you were as sheep going astray, but now you are turned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.


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you also as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.


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Therefore also it is contained in the Scripture: Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner Stone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him shall never be ashamed.


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Therefore to you who believe [is] the honor. But to those who are disobedient, [He is the] Stone which the builders rejected; this One came to be [the] Head of the corner,


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and a Stone-of-stumbling and a Rock-of-offense to those disobeying, who stumble at the word, to which they also were appointed.


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But you [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;


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Likewise, wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the word, they may also be won without the word by the conduct of the wives,


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For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.


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For the eyes of [the] Lord [are] on the righteous, and His ears [open] to their prayers. But [the] Lord's face [is] against [those] who do evil.


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But if you also suffer for righteousness' sake, [you are] blessed. And do not fear their fear, nor be troubled,


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but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with meekness and fear;


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having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.


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For [it is] better, if the will of God wills [it], to suffer [for] well-doing than [for] evil-doing.


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For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;


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to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in [the] days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared (in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water);


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which figure now also saves us, baptism; not a putting away of [the] filth of [the] flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, by [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ;


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who is at [the] right [hand] of God, having gone into Heaven, where [the] angels and authorities and powers are being subjected to Him.


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Of whom let not be the adorning of garments, or outward braiding of hair and wearing of gold, or of putting on clothing,


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but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the sight of God.


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For so once indeed the holy women hoping in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands;


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as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good and fearing no terror.


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Likewise, husbands, live together according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, the female, as truly [being] co-heirs together of [the] grace of life, not cutting off your prayers.


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And finally, all [be] of one mind, having compassion on one another, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly.


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Never give back evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, [giving] blessing, knowing that you are called to this so that you might inherit blessing.


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Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in [the] flesh, also you arm yourselves [with] the same thought, that he suffering in [the] flesh has been made to rest from sin,


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each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.


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If anyone speaks, [let it be] as [the] words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen.


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Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as [though] a strange thing happened to you,


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but rejoice according as you are partakers of Christ's suffering, so that when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.


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If you are reviled for [the] name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified.


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But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or a meddler in the affairs of others.


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But if [one suffers] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God because of this.


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For the time [has come] for the judgment to begin from the house of God. And if [it] first [begins] from us, what [will be] the end of those disobeying the gospel of God?


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Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator.


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in order no longer to [live] in [the] lusts of men, but in [the] will of God the remaining time in [the] flesh.


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For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries.


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In these things they are surprised, [that] you [are] not running with [them] into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.


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For to this [end] the gospel was preached also to [the] dead, that they might be judged according to men in [the] flesh, but live according to God in [the] Spirit.


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I exhort the elders who are among you, I being also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.


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But the God of all grace, He calling us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, [He] will perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish [you].


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I wrote to you through a few [words], by Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, exhorting and testifying this to be [the] true grace of God in which you stand.


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Feed the flock of God among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor for base gain, but readily;


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Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble.


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Be sensible [and] vigilant, because your adversary [the] Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;


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whom firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in [the] world are being completed in your brotherhood.


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Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us through [the] righteousness of our God and our Savior Jesus Christ,


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Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for [if you] do these things, you shall never fall.


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For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.


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Therefore I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though [you] know [them] and are established in the present truth.


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knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.


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For not having followed fables having been cunningly devised, but becoming eyewitnesses of the majesty of Jesus Christ, we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord.


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For He received honor and glory from God [the] Father, when was borne to Him a voice from the excellent glory, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.


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We also have a more sure word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Daystar arises in your hearts,


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knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture came into being of [its] own private interpretation.


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For prophecy was not borne at any time by [the] will of man, but holy men of God spoke being borne along by the Holy Spirit.


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according as His divine power has given to us all things that [pertain] to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue,


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through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of [the] divine nature, having escaped the corruption [that is] in [the] world through lust.


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But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge;


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and with] knowledge self-control, and [with] self-control, patience, and [with] patience, godliness,


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For if these things are in you and abound, they make you to be] neither idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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For he] in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past.


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But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.


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and especially those who walk after the flesh in [the] lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling [at] glories, speaking evil.


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Where angels, [who are] greater in power and might, do not bring a reproaching accusation against them before [the] Lord.


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But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption,


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being about to receive [the] wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence [as] pleasure in [the] daytime, and reveling [in] spots and blemishes, feasting along with you in their deceits,


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having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised [with] covetousness. [They are] cursed children


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who have forsaken the right way and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Beor, who loved [the] wages of unrighteousness,


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but had reproof of [his] lawbreaking, a dumb ass speaking in a man's voice, held back the madness of the prophet.


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These are wells without water, clouds driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.


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For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they lure through [the] lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;


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promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.


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And many will follow their pernicious ways, and because of them the way of truth will be evil spoken of.


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For if [they] have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, [their] last things are worse [than] the first.


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For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than fully knowing [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.


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But [the] word of the true proverb has happened to them: [The] dog turning to [his] own vomit; and, [The] washed sow to wallowing in the mire.


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And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.


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For if God did not spare sinning angels, but thrust [them] down into Tartarus, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, being reserved to judgment.


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And He did not spare [the] old world, but saved Noah [the] eighth one, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.


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And turning the cities [of] Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, He condemned [them] with an overthrow, setting an example to men] intending to live ungodly.


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For that righteous one living among them, in seeing and hearing, [his] righteous soul [was] tormented from day to day with [their] unlawful deeds.


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[The] Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust for a day of judgment, to be punished,


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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in [the] night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and [the] elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up.


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Then, all these things being [about to be] dissolved, what sort ought you to be in holy behavior and godliness,


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looking for and rushing the coming of the Day of God, on account of which [the] heavens, being on fire, will melt away, and [the] elements will melt, burning with heat?


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But according to His promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.


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Therefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent, spotless, and without blemish, to be found by Him in peace.


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And think of the long-suffering of our Lord [as] salvation (as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him


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as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, as also [they do] the rest of the Scriptures, to [their] own destruction).


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Therefore, beloved, knowing beforehand, beware lest being led away with the error of the lawless, you fall from [your] own steadfastness.


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But grow in grace and [in] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him [be] the glory, both now and to [the] day of eternity. Amen.


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to remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior by us, the apostles.


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First, knowing this, that there will come in [the] last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts


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and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since [the] fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of creation.


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For this is hidden from them [by their] willing it, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of the water, and through water, being held together by the word of God,


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But the present heavens and the earth being kept in store by the same word, are being kept for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.


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But, beloved, let not this one thing be hidden [from you], that one day [is] with [the] Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.


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The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any [of us] should perish, but that all should come to repentance.


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That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life,


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(for the Life was revealed, and we have seen [it] and bear witness, and show to you the everlasting Life, who was with the Father and was revealed to us),


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that which we have seen and heard we declare unto you, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship [is] with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.


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And this is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.


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If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.


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But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.


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If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.


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My little children, I write these things to you so] that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ [the] righteous.


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But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes.


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I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him [who is] from [the] beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.


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I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him [who is] from [the] beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.


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Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,


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because all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.


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Little children, it is the last time. And just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have risen up, from which we know that it is the last hour.


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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have continued with us. But [they went out] so that it might be revealed that they were not all of us.


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And He is [the] propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning [the sins of] all the world.


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I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.


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Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He who denies the Father and the Son is antichrist.


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Everyone who denies the Son neither has the Father. The [one] confessing the Son also has the Father.


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Therefore what you heard from the beginning, let it abide in you. If what you heard from [the] beginning remains in you, you will abide in both the Son and in the Father.


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But the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true and no lie, and as He has taught you, abide in Him.


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And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He is revealed, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him in His coming.


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If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does righteousness has been born of Him.


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He who says, I have known Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.


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But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.


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Brothers, I do not write a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from [the] beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from [the] beginning.


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Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true Light now shines.


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Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.


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In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the Devil: everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God, also he who does not love his brother.


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not as Cain [who] was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous.


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We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love [his] brother abides in death.


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Everyone hating his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has everlasting life abiding in him.


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By this we have known the love [of God], because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brothers.


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But whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?


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Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.


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And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.


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And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.


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And he who keeps His commandment dwells in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit which He gave to us.


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Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as that [One] is righteous.


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He who practices sin is of the Devil, for the Devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might undo the works of the Devil.


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Everyone who has been born of God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.


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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits to see if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.


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In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [to be] the propitiation concerning our sins.


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No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.


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And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.


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In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that as He is, so also we are in this world.


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There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment. He who fears has not been perfected in love.


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By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in [the] flesh is of God;


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If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?


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and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in [the] flesh is not of God. And this is the antichrist you heard is coming, and even now is already in the world.


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You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.


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We are of God. He who knows God hears us. The one who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.


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Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.


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In this the love of God was revealed in us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him.


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Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who has been born of Him.


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He who believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself. He who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he does not believe the record that God gave of His Son.


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I have written these things to you who believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.


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And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.


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And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.


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If anyone sees his brother sin a sin not to death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life for those that do not sin to death. There is a sin to death, I do not say that he shall pray for it.


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We know that everyone who has been born of God does not continue to sin, but the one born of God guards himself, and the evil one does not touch him.


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And we know that the Son of God has come, and [He] has given us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the everlasting life.


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For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome.


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For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.


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This is He who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by the water and blood. And the Spirit is He who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.


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For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.


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And there are three that bear witness on the earth:] the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three are into the one.


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If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which He has testified about His Son.


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And it happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?


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And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron; (and the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath-arba). And they killed Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.


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And from there he went against those who lived in Debir. And the name of Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher.


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And Caleb said, He who strikes Kirjath-sepher and takes it, I will give Achsah my daughter to him for a wife.


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And Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz, took it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.


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And it happened when she came, she moved him to ask for a field from her father. And she dismounted from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What do you desire?


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And she said to him, Give me a blessing. For you have given me a south land. Give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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And the sons of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which [is] in the south of Arad. And they went and lived among the people.


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And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they killed the Canaanites who lived in Zephath and destroyed it. And the name of the city [was called] Hormah.


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And the LORD was with Judah. And he took possession of the mountain. But he could not drive out those who lived in the valley, because they had chariots of iron.


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And the sons of Benjamin did not expel the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem. But the Jebusites live with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.


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And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Please show us the gate into the city, and we will show you mercy.


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And when he showed them the gate into the city, they struck the city with the edge of the sword. But they let the man and all his family go.


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And the man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city, and called the name of it Luz, which [is] the name of it to this day.


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And Manasseh had not taken possession of Beth-shean and its daughter- villages], nor Taanach and its daughter- villages], nor [struck] the inhabitants of Dor and its daughter- villages], nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its daughter- villages], nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its daughter- villages]. For the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.


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And it happened, when Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not completely expel them.


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And Ephraim did not expel the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.


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And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot so that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Simeon went with him.


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And Zebulun did not expel those who lived in Kitron, nor those who lived in Nahalol. But the Canaanites lived among them and became tributaries.


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And Asher did not expel those who lived in Accho, and the inhabitants of Sidon, and Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob.


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But the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, those who lived in the land, for they did not expel them.


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And Naphtali did not expel those who lived in Beth-shemesh, and the inhabitants of Beth-anath, and they lived among the Canaanites, those who lived in the land. But those who lived in Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became tributaries to them


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And the Amorites forced the sons of Dan into the mountain. For they would not allow them to come down to the valley.


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But the Amorites desired to stay in Mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy so that they became tributaries.


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And Judah went up. And the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. And they killed ten thousand men of them in Bezek.


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And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek. And, they fought against him, and they killed the Canaanites and the Perizzites.


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And Adoni-bezek fled. And they ran after him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.


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And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings [with] their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.


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And the sons of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and had struck it with the edge of the sword, and had set the city on fire.


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And afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.


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And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar. And he lived in Shamir in Mount Ephraim.


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And the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, We have sinned against You, both because we have forsaken our God and also have served the Baals.


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And the LORD said to the sons of Israel, Did not [I deliver you] from Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines?


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And the Sidonians and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you. And you cried to Me, and I delivered you out of their hand.


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And the sons of Israel said to the LORD, We have sinned. Do You to us whatever [is] good in Your eyes; only deliver us, we pray You, today.


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And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD. And His soul was moved by the misery of Israel.


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Then the sons of Ammon were gathered and camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel assembled themselves together and camped in Mizpeh.


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And the people and rulers of Gilead said to one another, What man [is] there who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.


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And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities which are called Havoth-jair to this day in the land of Gilead.


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And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals and Ashtoreths, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. And they left the LORD, and did not serve Him.


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And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon.


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And that year they troubled and oppressed the sons of Israel; all the sons of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead, for eighteen years.


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And the sons of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.


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Now Jephthah, the Gileadite, was a mighty man of war. And he [was] the son of a harlot. And Gilead fathered Jephthah.


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And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The LORD is witness between us if we do not do so according to your word.


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And Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.


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And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, What have you to do with me, that you have come against me to fight in my land?


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And the king of the sons of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and to Jordan. Now therefore restore those lands peaceably.


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And he said to him, So says Jephthah, Israel did not take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the sons of Ammon.


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But when they came up from Egypt, Israel walked through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh.


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And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, I pray you, let me pass through your land. But the king of Edom would not listen. And in the same way they sent to the king of Moab, but he would not. And Israel stayed in Kadesh.


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And they went along through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but they did not come within the border of Moab; for Arnon was the border of Moab.


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And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon. And Israel said to him, We pray you, let us pass through your land to my place.


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And Gilead's wife bore him sons. And his wife's sons grew up, and [they] threw Jephthah out and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house. For you [are] the son of another woman.


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But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his border. But Sihon gathered all his people together and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.


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And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, who lived in that country.


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And they possessed all the borders of the Amorites, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan.


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So now the LORD God of Israel has put out the Amorites before His people Israel, and should you possess it?


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Will you not possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whomever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, we will possess them.


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And now [are] you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them


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when Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities which [are] along by the borders of Arnon, for three hundred years? Why then did you not deliver them in that time?


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So I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. The LORD, the Judge, will judge this day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.


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Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead passed over [to] the sons of Ammon.


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Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. And worthless men were gathered to Jephthah, and went out with him.


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And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,


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then it shall be that whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, surely it shall belong to the LORD, or I will offer it up [instead of] a burnt offering.


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And Jephthah passed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them. And the LORD delivered them into his hand.


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And he struck them from Aroer even until you come to Minnith, twenty cities, and to the meadow of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. So were the sons of Ammon subdued before the sons of Israel.


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And Jephthah came to Mizpeh to his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances. And she [was his] only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.


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And it happened when he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot go back.


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And she said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord; do to me according to that which has come out of your mouth, because the LORD has taken vengeance for you upon your enemies, even of the sons of Ammon.


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And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me. Let me alone two months, so that I may go up and down upon the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.


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And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two months. And she went with her companions and wept for her virginity upon the mountains.


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And it happened at the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her his vow which he had vowed. And she knew no man. And it is a custom in Israel,


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that the daughters of Israel went yearly to tell again of the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.


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And when the sons of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah out of the land of Tob.


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And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Have you not hated me and thrown me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you [are] in trouble?


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And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, For this reason we turn again to you now, so that you may go with us and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be our head over all the people of Gilead.


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And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If you bring me home again to fight against the sons of Ammon, and the LORD delivers them before me, shall I be your head?


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And the men of Ephraim were called together and went northward, and said to Jephthah, Why did you go over to fight against the sons of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house upon you with fire.


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And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy ass colts. And he judged Israel eight years.


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And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.


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And Jephthah said to them, My people and I were at great strife [with] the sons of Ammon. And when I called you, you did not deliver me out of their hands.


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When I saw that you did not deliver me, I took my life in my hand and passed over against the sons of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand, and why have you come up against me, to fight against me today?


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And Jephthah called up all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, You Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites.


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And the Gileadites took the fords of Jordan before the Ephraimites. And it happened that when one of those Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And he said, No.


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And they said to him, Please say Shibboleth. And he said, Sibboleth, for he could not manage to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him and killed him at the passages of Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites.


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And Jephthah judged Israel six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.


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And he had thirty sons and thirty daughters [whom] he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.


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And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.


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And the woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, Behold, the Man has appeared to Me, the one who came to me the [other] day.


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And Manoah arose and went after his wife, and came to the Man, and said to Him, [Are] You the Man who spoke to the woman? And He said, I [am].


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And Manoah said, Now let Your words come to pass. [How] shall we order the child, and what shall we do to him?


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She may not eat of all that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean [thing]. Let her do all that I commanded her.


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And Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, I pray You, let us keep You until we have made a kid ready for You.


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And the Angel of the LORD said to Manoah, Though you keep Me, I will not eat of your bread. And if you will offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the LORD. For Manoah did not know that He [was] the Angel of the LORD.


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And Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, What [is] Your name, so that when Your sayings come to pass we may do You honor?


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And the Angel of the LORD said to him, Why do you ask after My name in this way? Yea, it [is] Wonderful.


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And Manoah took a kid with a food offering, and offered [it] upon a rock to the LORD, and did wonderfully. And Manoah and his wife looked on.


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And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah. And his wife was barren and did not bear.


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For it happened when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, the Angel of the LORD went up in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on [it] and fell on their faces to. the ground.


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But the Angel of the LORD did not appear any more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that He [was] an Angel of the LORD.


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But his wife said to him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt offering and a food offering at our hands, neither would He have showed us all these [things, nor have told us [such things] as these at this time.


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And the Angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, Behold now, you [are] barren and do not bear. But you shall conceive and bear a son.


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And now, please take heed, and do not drink wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean [thing].


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For lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head. For the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.


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And the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and His face [was] like the face of an Angel of God, very terrifying. But I did not ask Him where He came from, neither did He tell me His name.


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But He said to me, Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean [thing], for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.


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And Manoah prayed to the LORD and said, O, my Lord, let the Man of God, whom You sent, come again to us and teach us what we shall do to the boy that shall be born.


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And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the Angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband [was] not with her.


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And his father went down to the woman. And Samson made a feast there, for so the young men used to do.


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And Samson said to them, I will now put forth a riddle to you. If you certainly tell it to me [within] the seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty linen blouses and thirty changes of garments.


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But if you cannot tell me, then you shall give me thirty linen blouses and thirty changes of garments. And they said to him, Put forth your riddle so that we may hear it.


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And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And in] three days they were not able to declare the riddle.


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And it happened on the seventh day they said to Samson's wife, Lure your husband so that he may tell the riddle to us, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you called us to take what we have? [Is it] not [so] ?


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And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You only hate me, and do not love [me]. You have put forth a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told [it] to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not told my father nor to my mother, and shall I tell you?


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And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted. And on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed hard upon him. And she told the riddle to the sons of her people.


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And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What [is] sweeter than honey, and what stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found [out my riddle.


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And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave changes of garments to them who told what the riddle meant. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.


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And he came up and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And now get her for me for a wife.


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And his father and his mother said to him, [Is there] no woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she pleases me very much.


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But his father and his mother did not know that it [was] from the LORD, that He [was] looking for an occasion against the Philistines. For at that time the Philistines had the rule over Israel.


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And Samson and his father and his mother went down to Timnath. And they came to the vineyards of Timnath. And, behold, a young lion roared to meet him.


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And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore it as he would have torn a kid; and nothing was in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.


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And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the dead body of the lion. And behold! A swarm of bees and honey [was] in the dead body of the lion.


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And he took some of it in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother. And he gave to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the dead body of the lion.


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And it happened afterward, in the days of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a kid. And [he] said, I will go in to my wife into the room. But her father would not allow him to go in.


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And the men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? And they answered, We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.


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Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Do you not know that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? What have you done to us? And he said to them, As they have done to me, so I have done to them.


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And they said to him, We have come to bind you so that we may deliver you into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves.


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And they spoke to him, saying, No, but we will tie you up and deliver you into their hand. But surely we will not kill you. And they bound him with two new cords and brought him up from the rock.


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He came to Lehi, and the Philistines shouted against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords on his arms became as flax that has been burned with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.


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And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.


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And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass I have killed a thousand men.


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And it happened when he had made an end of speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Hill of the Jawbone.


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And he was very thirsty and called upon the LORD and said, You have given this great deliverance into the hand of Your servant. And now shall I die with thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?


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But God cut open a hollow place and water came out there. And he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore, its name [is] called Fountain of the Praying One, which is in Lehi to this day.


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And her father said, I truly thought that you utterly hated her, and I gave her to your companion. [Is] not her younger sister fairer than she is? Please, let her be for you instead of her.


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And Samson said concerning them, Now I shall be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do evil with them.


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And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes and took fire brands, and turned tail to tail, and put a fire brand in the middle between two tails.


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And [he] set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and also the standing grain, with the vineyards and olives.


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And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.


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And Samson said to them, Though you have done this, yet I will be avenged of you, and after that I will stop.


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And he struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and lived in the top of the rock Etam.


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And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Now, please, tell me with what you may be bound.


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And he said to her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that have never been used, then I shall be weak and be as another man.


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And Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, The Philistines [are] upon you, Samson! And the ambush [was] sitting for her in the inner room. And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.


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And Delilah said to Samson, You have mocked me until now, and told me lies. Tell me with what you may be bound. And he said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.


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And she fastened [it] with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon you, Samson! And He awakened out of his sleep, and pulled out the pin, the hand-loom and the web.


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And she said to him, How can you say, I love you, and your heart [is] not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in what your great strength [lies].


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And it happened because she distressed him with her words daily, and urged him; and his soul was grieved to death.


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And he told her all his heart, and said to her, A razor has not come on my hair, for I [am] a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak and be like any man.


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And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come this once, for he has showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought silver in their hand.


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And she made him sleep upon her knees. And she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head. And she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.


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The Gazites [were told], saying, Samson has come here. And they surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, Until the light of the morning, then we shall kill him.


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And she said, The Philistines [are] upon you, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.


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And the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass. And he ground in the prison house.


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Then the lords of the Philistines gathered in order to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice. For they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.


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And the people saw him and praised their god. For they said, Our god has delivered our enemy into our hand, and the destroyer of our country, who killed many of us.


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And when their hearts were merry, it happened that they said, Call for Samson and he will make sport for us. And they called for Samson out of the prison house. And he made sport for them, and they set him between the pillars.


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And Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, Allow me to feel the pillars upon which the house stands, so that I may lean upon them.


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Now the house was full of men and women. And all the lords of the Philistines [were] there. And on the roof were about three thousand men and women who watched while Samson made sport.


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And Samson called to the LORD and said, O, Lord GOD, remember me, I pray You, and strengthen me, I pray You, only this once, O God, so that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.


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And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was held up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.


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And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took hold of the leaves of the gate of the city and the two posts, and picked them up, with the bar, and put [them] on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill that [is] before Hebron.


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And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself mightily, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death [were] more than those he killed in his life.


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Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought [him] up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.


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And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Lure him and see where his great strength [lies], and by what means we may prevail against him, so that we may tie him to afflict him. And each one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces [of] silver.


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And Delilah said to Samson, Please tell me where your great strength [lies], and with what you may be bound to afflict you.


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And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then I shall be weak and be as another man.


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Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.


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And the ambush [was] sitting for her in the inner room. And she said to him, The Philistines [are] upon you, Samson! And he broke the cords like a thread of tow when it smells fire. And his strength was not known.


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And Micah said to him, Live with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten [shekels] of silver by the year, and a suit of clothes, and your food. And the Levite went in.


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And Micah consecrated the Levite. And the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.


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And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred [shekels] of silver which were taken from you, about which you cursed, and spoke of also in my ears, behold, the silver [is] with me. Behold, I took it. And his mother said, Be blessed of the LORD, my son.


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And when he had given back the eleven hundred of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly given the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son to make a graven image and a molten image. And now I am giving it to you.


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And he gave the money back to his mother. And his mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver and gave them to a refiner, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image. And they were in the house of Micah.


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And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and household gods, and anointed one of his sons, who became his priest.


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And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah of the family of Judah, and he [was] a Levite. And he stayed there.


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And the man went out of the city from Bethlehem-judah to live where he could find [a place]. And he came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.


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And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I [am] a Levite of Bethlehem-judah, and I go to live where I may find a place.


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In those days no king [was] in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites looked for an inheritance for them to live in. For to that day it had not fallen to them by inheritance among the tribes of Israel.


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When you go, you shall come to a people feeling safe, and to a large land. For God has given it into your hands, a place where [there is] no lack of anything in the earth.


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And six hundred men of the family of the Danites moved from there, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, girded with weapons of war.


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And they went up and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah. Therefore, they called that place A Camp of Dan to this day. Behold, [it is] behind Kirjath-jearim.


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Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, Did you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and household gods, and an engraved image and a molten image? And now consider what you have to do.


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And they turned in that way, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, to the house of Micah, and greeted him.


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And the six hundred men of the sons of Dan, girded with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate.


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And the five men who went up to spy out the land came in there, and took the engraved image and the ephod and the household gods, and the molten image. And the priest stood the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men who [were dressed with weapons of war.


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And these went into Micah's house and brought out [the] carved image, the ephod, and the household gods, and the molten image. And the priest said to them, What are you doing?


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And they said to him, Be quiet, lay your hand on your mouth and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. [Is it] better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?


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And the sons of Dan sent from their family five men from their borders, men of war, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. And they said to them, Go, search the land. And when they came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, they stayed there.


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And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the household gods, and the carved image, and went in the midst of the people.


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They had gone far away from the house of Micah, and the men in the houses near Micah's house had been called together and had overtaken the sons of Dan.


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And [they] cried to the sons of Dan. And they turned their faces and said to Micah, What [ails] you, that you have been called together?


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And he said, You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and you have gone away. And what more do I have? And what [is] this you say to me, What [ails] you?


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And the sons of Dan said to him, Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon you and you lose your life with the lives of your household.


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And the sons of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they [were] too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.


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And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and feeling safe. And [they] struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.


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And [there was] no deliverer, because it [was] far from Sidon, and they had no business with [any] man. And it [was] in the valley that lies by Beth-rehob. And they built a city and lived in it.


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And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel. However the name of the city [was] Laish at the first.


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When they [were] at the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite. And they turned in there, and said to him, Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this [place]? And what have you here?


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And the sons of Dan set up the engraved image. And Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.


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And they set up Micah's engraved image for themselves, the image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.


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And they said to him, We pray you, Ask counsel of God so that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.


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And the five men departed and came to Laish, and saw the people in it, how they lived carelessly, as the Sidonians do, quiet and secure. And there [was] no judge in the land who might put them to shame in a thing. And they were far from the Sidonians, and had no business with [any] man.


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And they came to their brothers, to Zorah and Eshtaol. And their brothers said to them, What do you [say] ?


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And they said, Arise, so that we may go up against them. For we have seen the land, and, behold, [it is] very good. And will you sit quietly? Do not be too lazy to go; enter to possess the land.


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And it happened in those days, no king being in Israel, there was a certain Levite residing on the far side of Mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah.


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But the man would not stay that night, but he rose up and left, and came over against Jebus, which [is] Jerusalem. And there were with him two saddled asses. His concubine also was with him.


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They [were] beside Jebus, and the day was far gone. And the servant said to his master, Please come, and let us turn in to this city of the Jebusites and stay in it.


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And his master said to him, We will not turn aside here into the city of a stranger that [is] not of the sons of Israel. We will pass over to Gibeah.


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And he said to his servant, Come and let us draw near one of these places to stay all night, in Gibeah or in Ramah.


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And they passed on and went their way. And the sun went [down] on them beside Gibeah, which [is] of Benjamin.


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And they turned aside there, to go in [and] to lodge in Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in a street of the city. For no man took them into his house to stay the night.


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And behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening, who [was] also from Mount Ephraim. And he lived in Gibeah, but the men of the place [were] of Benjamin.


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And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a traveler in the streets of the city. And the old man said, Where do you go, and where do you come from?


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And he said to him, We [are] passing from Bethlehem-judah to the side of mount Ephraim. I [am] from there, and I went to Bethlehem-judah, but I am going to the house of the LORD. And there is no man who receives me into his house.


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Yet here is both straw and food for our asses. And there is bread and wine also for me, and for your slave woman, and for the young man [who is] with your servants. There is no lack of anything.


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And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem-judah, and was there four whole months.


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And the old man said, Peace [be] with you. Yet all that you lack [shall be] on me. Only do not stay in the street.


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And he brought him into his house and mixed [fodder] for the asses. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.


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They were making their hearts merry. And, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, set upon the house all around [and] beat at the door and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring out the man that came to your house so that we may know him.


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And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, No, my brothers, I pray you, do not do evil, since this man has come into my house. Do not do this foolish sin.


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Behold, my daughter, a virgin, and his concubine. I will bring them out now, and you humble them and do with them what seems good to you. But do not do so vile a thing to this man.


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But the men would not listen to him. And the man took his concubine and brought [her] out to them. And they knew her and rolled themselves on her all night until the morning. And they sent her away at the dawning of the day.


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And the woman came, in the dawning of the day, and fell down [at] the door of the man's house where her lord [was], until it was light.


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And her lord rose up in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way. And behold, the woman, his concubine, had fallen down [at] the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.


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And he said to her, Up, and let us be going. But there was no answer. Then the man took her on an ass, and the man rose up and went to his place.


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And [he] came into his house, [he] took a knife and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, with her bones, into twelve pieces and sent her into all the borders of Israel.


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And her husband arose and went after her, to speak friendly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of asses. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the father of the girl saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.


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And it was so that all that saw [it] said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the sons of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day. Think of it, take advice and speak.


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And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him. And he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank and stayed there.


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And it happened on the fourth day when they arose early in the morning, he rose up to leave. And the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Comfort your heart [with] a piece of bread, and afterward go your way.


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And they sat down and ate and drank, both of them together, for the girl's father had said to the man, Please be content, and stay all night, and let your heart be merry.


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And he rose early in the morning on the fifth day to leave. And the girl's father said, Please comfort your heart. And they stayed till afternoon, and both of them ate.


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And when the man rose up to leave, he and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening. Please stay all night. Behold, the day grows to an end. Stay here so that your heart may be merry. And tomorrow go early on your way, so that you may go to your tent.


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And the Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you go up out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land which I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break My covenant with you.


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And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD, nor even the works which He had done for Israel.


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And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt. And they followed other gods of the gods of the people who were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.


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And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of spoilers who spoiled them. And He sold them into the hand of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.


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Wherever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed.


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And yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went lusting after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, for they had obeyed the commandments of the LORD; these did not do so.


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And when the LORD raised judges up for them, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD took pity because of their groanings before their oppressors and their crushers.


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And it happened when the judge was dead, they returned and made themselves more rotten than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.


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And you shall make no treaty with those who live in this land. You shall throw down their altars. But you have not obeyed My voice. What [is] this that you have done?


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And the anger of the LORD glowed against Israel. And He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,


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I also from now on will not expel any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;


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so that by them I may test Israel, whether they are keeping the way of the LORD, to go in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.


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And the LORD left those nations, without driving them out quickly. And He did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.


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And I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.


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And it happened when the Angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.


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And when Joshua had let the people go, the sons of Israel left, each man to his inheritance, to possess the land.


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And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD that He did for Israel.


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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.


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Then all the sons of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD in Mizpeh.


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and we will take ten men of a hundred of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to bring food for the people, so that when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, they may do according to all the folly which they have done in Israel.


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And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?


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Now, therefore, deliver the men, the sons of Belial, who [are] in Gibeah, so that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the sons of Israel.


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And the sons of Benjamin gathered out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel.


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And the sons of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.


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Among all this people [were] seven hundred chosen men, left-handed. Every one could sling stones at a hair's breadth, and not miss.


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And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these [were] men of war.


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And the sons of Israel rose and went up to the house of God and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us [shall go up] first to the battle against the sons of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah first.


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And the leaders of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.


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And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin. And the men of Israel put themselves in order, ready to fight against them at Gibeah


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And the sons of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah and destroyed to the earth twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites that day.


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And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves and set their battle in order again in the place where they put themselves in order the first day.


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And the sons of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and asked counsel from the LORD saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the sons of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.


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And Benjamin went forth to meet them again from Gibeah the second day and again destroyed to the earth eighteen thousand men of the sons of Israel. All these drew the sword.


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And all the sons of Israel, and all the people, went up and came into the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.


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And the sons of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God [was] there in those days,


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and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of Benjamin my brother, or shall I stop? And the LORD said, Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.


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And the sons of Benjamin heard that the sons of Israel had gone up to Mizpeh. And the sons of Israel said, Speak. How did this evil happen?


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And the sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in order against Gibeah, as at other times.


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And the sons of Benjamin went out against the people, [and] were drawn away from the city. [And they] began to strike some of the people and to kill, as at other times, in the highways-- one of which goes up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field-- about thirty men of Israel.


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And the sons of Benjamin said, They [are] beaten before us as at the first. But the sons of Israel said, Let us flee and draw them from the city to the highways.


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And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and marshalled at Baal-tamar. And the ambush of Israel broke forth from their place, from the plains of Gibeah.


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And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was heavy. But they did not know that evil [was] near them.


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And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel. And the sons of Israel destroyed in Benjamin twenty-five thousand and a hundred men that day. All these drew the sword.


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So the sons of Benjamin saw that they were beaten. For the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin because they trusted to the ambush which they had set against Gibeah.


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And the ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah. And the ambush marched and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.


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And a sign was set between the men of Israel and the ambush, caused go up a great smoke rising up from the city.


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And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike [and] kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons. For they said, Surely they are stricken down before us as [in] the first battle.


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And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah of Benjamin to stay the night, my concubine and I.


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And the rising of a pillar [of smoke] began to go up out of the city. And Benjamin turned behind them, and behold, the whole city had gone up toward the heavens.


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And the men of Israel turned again, and the men of Benjamin were amazed. For they saw that evil had touched them.


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And they turned before the men of Israel, to the way of the wilderness. But the battle overtook them. And those who [came] out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.


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They encircled Benjamin [and] they chased them without rest, [and] trod them down until [they were] against Gibeah toward the sunrise.


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And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. And they gleaned of [them] in the highways five thousand men, and pursued hard after them to Gidom and killed two thousand men of them.


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So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All of these [were] men of war.


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But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness, to the rock Rimmon, and they stayed in the rock Rimmon four months.


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And the sons of Israel turned again to the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, from the entire city to livestock, to all that was found. Also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.


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And the men of Gibeah rose against me and set upon the house all around me at night. They intended to kill me. And they raped my concubine, and she is dead.


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And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the land of the inheritance of Israel. For they have committed evil and folly in Israel.


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And all people rose as one man, saying, Let no man go to his tent, and do not let any of us turn to his house.


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And the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, Not one of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin for a wife.


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And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go, and you shall strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the sword, with the women and the sons.


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And this [is] the thing that you shall do. You shall utterly destroy every male and every woman who has lain with man.


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And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had known no man by lying with any male. And they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan.


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And the whole congregation sent to speak to the sons of Benjamin who were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them.


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And Benjamin came again at that time. And they gave them wives whom they had saved alive, of the women of Jabesh-gilead. And yet so they were not enough for them.


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And the people repented themselves for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a break in the tribes of Israel.


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And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?


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And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for those of Benjamin who have escaped, so that a tribe may not be destroyed out of Israel.


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However, we may not give them wives of our daughters. For the sons of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [is] he who gives a wife to Benjamin.


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Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.


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And the people came to the house of God and stayed there until evening before God, and lifted up their voice and wept grievously,


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and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then you come out of the vineyards and catch you a wife for every man from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.


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And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, Be favorable to them for our sakes, because we did not reserve each man a wife in the war. For if you did not give to them at this time, you would be guilty.


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And the sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number, from those that danced, whom they caught. And they went and returned to their inheritance, and repaired the cities and lived in them.


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And the sons of Israel departed from there at that time, each man to his tribe and to his family. And they went out from there every man to his inheritance.


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and said, O, LORD God of Israel, Why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?


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And it happened on the next day the people rose early and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.


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And the sons of Israel said, Who [is there] among all the tribes of Israel that did not come up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.


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And the sons of Israel repented themselves for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.


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What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters for wives?


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And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.


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And these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;


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And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Chushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hand. And his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.


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And the sons of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD made Eglon the king of Moab strong against Israel because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.


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And he gathered to him the sons of Ammon and Amalek. And he went forth and struck Israel, and took the city of palm trees.


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But when the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel sent a present to Eglon the king of Moab by him.


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But Ehud made himself a dagger which had two edges, a cubit long. And he tied it under his clothing upon his right thigh.


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But he himself turned again from the graven images by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret message for you, O, king. And he said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.


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only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least those who before knew nothing of it:


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And Ehud came to him. And he was sitting [in] the cool roof room which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. And he rose out of his seat.


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And Ehud put forth his left hand and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.


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And the haft also went in after the blade. And the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly. And the dung came out.


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And when he had gone out, his servants came. And they looked, and, behold, the doors of the roof room were locked, they said, Surely he [is] covering his feet in his cool roof room.


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And they waited until they were ashamed. And, behold, he did not open the doors of the room. And they took a key and opened them. And behold, their lord [had] fallen down dead on the earth.


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And it happened, when he had come, he blew a ram's horn in the mountain of Ephraim, and the sons of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he before them.


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And he said to them, Follow after me. For the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and did not allow a man to pass over.


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And they killed about ten thousand of the men of Moab at that time, all lusty, and all men of might. And there did not escape a man.


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five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon to the border of Hamath.


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And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. And he also delivered Israel.


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And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commands of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.


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And the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites.


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And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.


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And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baals and the Asherahs.


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And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia. And the sons of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.


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And when the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the sons of Israel, who delivered them, Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz.


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And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And he went up with ten thousand men at his feet. And Deborah went up with him.


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And Heber the Kenite, of the sons of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent toward the plain of Zaanaim, near Kedesh.


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And Sisera gathered all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people with him, from Harosheth of the nations to the river of Kishon.


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And Deborah said to Barak, Up! For this [is] the day in which the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.


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And the LORD struck Sisera, and all the chariots, and all the army, with the edge of the sword in front of Barak, so that Sisera got down from the chariot and fled on his feet.


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But Barak pursued the chariots and after the army, to Harosheth of the nations. And all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left.


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And Sisera fled on his feet to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite. For [there was] peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.


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And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in my lord, turn in to me. Do not fear. When he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a rug.


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And he said to her, Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink, and covered him.


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And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. The captain of his host was Sisera who lived in Harosheth of the nations.


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Again he said to her, Stand [in] the door of the tent, and it shall be when any man comes asking of you, saying, Is there any man here? You shall say, No.


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Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a peg of the tent and put a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the peg into his temple, and beat it into the ground. For he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.


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And behold, as Barak followed Sisera, Jael came out to meet him and said to him, Come and I will show you the man whom you seek. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the peg was in his temple.


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And the hand of the sons of Israel went on, and pressed hard against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.


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And the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron. And he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.


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And she lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim. And the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.


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And she sent and called for Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, Has not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun?


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And I will draw Sisera to you, the captain of Jabin's army, at the river Kishon, together with his chariots and his multitude. And I will deliver him into your hands.


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And Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go. But if you will not go with me, I will not go.


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And she said, I will surely go with you. But the journey that you take shall not be for your honor, for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.


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[Louder] than the voice of the dividers between the watering places, there shall they tell again the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts of His leaders in Israel. Then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.


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Awake, awake, Deborah. Awake, awake, sing a song. Arise, Barak, lead your captivity captive, son of Abinoam.


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Then He [made me] tread on the remnant of the nobles among the people. The LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.


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Out of Ephraim there was a root of them [against] Amalek; after you, Benjamin, with your peoples. Out of Machir came down commanders, and out of Zebulun came they who handle the pen of the writer.


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And the rulers of Issachar [were] with Deborah, even Issachar, and also Barak. He was sent on foot into the valley. There were great thoughts of heart for the divisions of Reuben.


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Why did you stay among the sheepfolds to hear the bleating of the flocks? For in the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.


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Gilead stayed beyond Jordan. And why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the seashore and remained in his havens.


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Zebulun and Naphtali were a people who put their lives in danger of death in the high places of the field.


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Kings came and fought. Then the kings of Canaan fought in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no gain of silver.


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The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, you trampled in strength.


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Curse Meroz, said the Angel of the LORD; curse the people of it bitterly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.


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Blessed among women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be. She shall be blessed above women in the tent.


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She put her hand to the peg, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; she hammered Sisera; she smashed his head, she pierced and struck through his temple.


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He bowed between her feet, he fell, he lay down. Between her feet he bowed; he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.


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The mother of Sisera looked out a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariot wait?


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Hear, O, kings. Give ear, O, princes. I, [even] I, will sing to the LORD, I will sing to the LORD God of Israel.


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Do they not find and divide the spoil? A womb, two wombs to a man's head, to Sisera a prize of dyed garments, a prize of embroidered dyed [garments] for the necks of those that take the spoil.


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So let all Your enemies perish, O LORD. But let them that love Him be like the sun when He goes forth in His might. And the land had rest forty years.


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LORD, when You went out of Seir, when You marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.


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In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were empty, and the travelers walked through crooked ways.


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The leaders ceased in Israel, they ceased until I, Deborah, arose; until I arose, a mother in Israel.


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They chose new gods; then war [was] in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?


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My heart [is] toward the lawgivers of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD.


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And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.


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And I said to you, I [am] the LORD your God. Do not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But you have not obeyed My voice.


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And the Angel of Jehovah came and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, which [belonged] to Joash the Abiezrite. And his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.


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And Gideon said to Him, O, my Lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? But now the LORD has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.


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And the LORD looked upon him and said, Go in your might, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?


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And he said to him, O, my Lord, with what shall I save Israel? Behold, my family [is] poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.


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And the LORD said to him, Surely, I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.


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And he said to Him, If now I have found grace in Your sight, then show me a sign that You talk with me.


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Do not depart from here, I pray, until I come to You, and bring forth my food offering and set it before You. And He said, I will stay until you come again.


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And Gideon went in and made ready a kid and unleavened [cakes] of an ephah of flour. He put the flesh in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to Him to the oak, and offered [it].


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And the hand of Midian was strong against Israel. Before the faces of Midian, the sons of Israel made themselves dens in the mountains, and caves and strongholds.


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And the Angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened [cakes] and lay on this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.


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Then the Angel of Jehovah put forth the end of the staff that was in His hand and touched the flesh and the unleavened [cakes]. And there rose up fire out of the rock and burned up the flesh and the unleavened [cakes]. Then the Angel of Jehovah went away out of his sight.


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And when Gideon saw that He was the Angel of Jehovah, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! Because I have seen the Angel of Jehovah face to face.


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Then Gideon built an altar there to Jehovah, and called it Jehovah-shalom. It [is] yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites to this day.


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And it happened on that night Jehovah said to him, Take your father's young bull, even the second bull of seven years, and throw down the altar of Baal which your father [has], and cut down the pillar by it.


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And build an altar to Jehovah your God upon the top of this rock, in an orderly manner, and take the second bull and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which you shall cut down.


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Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said to him. And so it was, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day. So he did it by night.


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And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the pillar which was by it was cut down, and the second bull had been offered upon the altar that was built.


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And they said to one another, Who has done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.


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And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, even they came up against them.


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Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son so that he may die (because he had cast down the altar of Baal, and because he had cut down the pillar by it).


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And Joash said to all that stood against him, Will you plead for Baal? Will you save him? He who contends for him shall be killed by the morning. If he is a god, let him plead for himself, because one has cast down his altar.


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And on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal contend against him because he has thrown down his altar.


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Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east were gathered together, and went over and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.


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But the spirit of the LORD came to Gideon, and he blew a ram's horn. And he called the Abiezrites after him.


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And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, who also were gathered after him. And he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali. And they came up to meet them.


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behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the grain-floor. And if the dew is on the fleece only, and dry upon all the ground, then I shall know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have said.


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And it was so. For he rose up early in the morning and gathered the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.


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And Gideon said to God, Let not Your anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once. I pray You, let me test but this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.


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And they camped against them and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. And they left no food for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor ass.


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And God did so that night. For it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.


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For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts for multitude, both they and their camels were without number. And they entered into the land to destroy it.


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the LORD sent a man, a prophet to the sons of Israel, who said to them, So says the LORD God of Israel: I brought you up from Egypt and brought you forth out of the house of bondage.


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And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you and gave you their land.


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And Jerubbaal (he [is] Gideon) and all the people that were with him, rose up early and pitched beside the well of Harod, so that the army of the Midianites was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.


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And you shall hear what they shall say. And afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down to the army. Then he went down with Phurah his servant to the edge of the ranks in the army.


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And the Midianites and the Amalekites, and all the sons of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude, and their camels without number, like the sand by the seaside for multitude.


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And when Gideon had come, behold, a man told a dream to his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came to a tent, and struck it so that it fell, and overturned it, so that the tent lay along.


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And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else except the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. For into his hand God has delivered Midian and all the army.


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And it happened, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and the meaning of it, he worshiped. And [he] returned to the army of Israel, and said, Arise! For the LORD has delivered the host of Midian into your hand.


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And he divided the three hundred men into three companies. And he put a ram's horn in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers.


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And he said to them, Look on me, and do likewise. And, behold, when I come to the edge of the camp, it shall be, as I do, so you shall do.


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When I blow with a ram's horn, I and all who are with me, then you blow the ram's horns also on every side of all the camp, and shout, For Jehovah and for Gideon!


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So Gideon and the hundred men with him came to the edge of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch. And they had but newly set the watch. And they blew the ram's horns and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.


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And the LORD said to Gideon, The people with you [are] too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel boast themselves against Me, saying, My own hand has saved me.


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And the three companies blew the ram's horns and broke the pitchers and held the torches in their left hands and the ram's horns in their right hands to blow. And they cried, A sword for Jehovah and for Gideon!


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And they stood, each man in his place, all around the camp. And all the army ran, and cried, and fled.


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And the three hundred blew the ram's horns. And the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the army. And the army fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, to the border of Abel-meholah, to Tabbath.


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And the men of Israel were called out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and ran after the Midianites.


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And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take the waters to Beth-barah and Jordan before them. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves. And they captured the waters to Beth-barah and Jordan.


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Then they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb. And they killed Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. And they pursued Midian and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.


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Now, therefore, speak in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and go away early from Mount Gilead. And twenty-two thousand of the people returned. And there remained ten thousand.


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And the LORD said to Gideon, The people are still [too] many. Bring them down to the water, and I will separate them for you there. It shall be [that of] whom I say to you, This shall go with you, the same shall go with you. And of whomever I say to you, This shall not go with you, the same shall not go.


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And he brought down the people to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, Everyone who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set him apart; also everyone who bows down upon his knees to drink.


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And the number of them who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, [was] three hundred men. But all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.


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And the LORD said to Gideon, I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and will deliver the Midianites into your hand. And let all the other people go, each man to his place.


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And the people took provisions in their hand, and their ram's horns. And he sent away all the rest of Israel, each man to his tent, and kept those three hundred men. And the army of Midian was below him in the valley.


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And it happened on that night, the LORD said to him, Arise, go down to the army, for I have delivered it into your hand.


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And the men of Ephraim said to him, What [is] this thing you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight with the Midianites? And they rebuked him sharply.


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And Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand, all who were left of all the armies of the sons of the east. For a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword fell.


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And Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army. For the army was at ease.


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And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued them and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and destroyed all the army.


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And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth and asked of him. And he described to him the rulers of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.


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And he came to the men of Succoth and said, Behold, Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom you rebuked me, saying, [Are] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand so that we should give bread to your men who are weary?


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And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.


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And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, How were the men whom you killed in Tabor? And they answered, As you [are], so they. [Each] one resembled the sons of a king.


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And he said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.


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And he said to them, What have I done now in comparison to you? [Is] not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?


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And he said to Jether his first-born, Up! Kill them! But the youth did not draw his sword, for he feared, because he [was] still a youth.


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And Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise and fall upon us. For as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments on their camels' necks.


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And the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule over us, both you and your son, and your son's son also. For you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.


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And Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. The LORD shall rule over you.


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And Gideon said to them, I would desire a favor of you, that each man of you would give me the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.)


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And they answered, We will gladly give. And they spread a cloth, and each man threw the earrings of his prey in it.


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And the weight of the golden earrings which he asked for was seventeen hundred of gold, besides ornaments, and pendants, and purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains around their camels' necks.


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And Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel went there lusting after it, which thing became a snare to Gideon and to his house.


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And Midian was subdued before the sons of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.


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God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. And what was I able to do in comparison to you? Then their spirits toward him went away when he had said that.


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And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah [of] the Abiezrites.


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And it happened as soon as Gideon was dead, the sons of Israel turned again and went lusting after the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god.


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And the sons of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side.


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Neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.


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And Gideon came to Jordan, crossing over, he and the three hundred men with him, faint, yet pursuing them.


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And he said to the men of Succoth, I pray you, give loaves of bread to the people who follow me. For they are tired, and I [am] chasing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.


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And the rulers of Succoth said, [Are] the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, so that we should give bread to your army?


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And Gideon said, Therefore, when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.


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And he went up from there to Penuel, and spoke to them likewise. And the men of Penuel answered him like the men of Succoth had answered.


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And he spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.


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And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to his mother's brothers. And he talked with them and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,


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But the fig tree said to them, Should I forsake my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?


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And the vine said to them, Should I leave my wine, which cheers God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?


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And the bramble-bush said to the trees, If you truly anoint me king over you, come put your trust in my shadow. And if not, let fire come out of the bramble and burn up the cedars of Lebanon.


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And now, if you have done truly and sincerely in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to what his hands did,


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[in] which my father fought for you and much endangered his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian.


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And you have risen up against my father's house today, and have killed his sons, seventy persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, king over the men of Shechem, because he [is] your brother;


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if then you have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house today, rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.


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I pray you, speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem: Which is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? Remember also that I [am] your bone and your flesh.


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But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and burn up the men of Shechem and the house of Millo. And let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and burn up Abimelech.


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And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem. And the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,


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so that the cruelty to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and upon the men of Shechem who helped him in the killing of his brothers.


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And the men of Shechem set men lying in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that passed by. And it was told to Abimelech.


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And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem. And the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.


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And [they] went out into the fields and gathered their vineyards and trod the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.


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And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who [is] Abimelech, and who [is] Shechem, that we should serve him? Is [he] not the son of Jerubbaal, and Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?


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And I wish this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase your army, and come out!


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And his mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem with all these words. And their hearts were bent toward Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.


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And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem. And behold, they fortify the city against you.


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And it shall be in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, it shall be that you shall rise early and set upon the city. And behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you may do to them as you desire.


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And Abimelech rose up by night, and all the people with him, and they lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.


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And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. And Abimelech rose up, and the people with him, from lying in wait.


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And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, people are coming down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said to him, You are seeing the shadow of the mountains like men.


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And Gaal spoke again and said, See, people [are] coming by the middle of the land, and another company coming along by way of the Sorcerers' Oak.


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And Zebul said to him, Where is your mouth now, [with] which you said, Who [is] Abimelech, that we should serve him? Is not this the people whom you have despised? I pray you, go out now and fight with them.


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And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless persons who followed him.


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And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, to the entrance of the gate.


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And Abimelech lived at Arumah. And Zebul put Gaal and his brothers out, so that they should not live in Shechem.


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And he took the people and divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the field. And they looked, and behold, the people came forth out of the city. And he rose up against them, and struck them.


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And Abimelech and the company with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. And the two companies ran upon all the people in the field, and killed them.


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And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. And he took the city and killed the people in it. And he beat down the city and sowed it [with] salt.


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And all the men of the tower of Shechem heard, and entered into a stronghold of the house of the god Berith.


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And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a limb from the trees, and took it and laid it on his shoulder, and said to the people who were with him, What you have seen me do, hurry and do likewise.


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And all the people also, each man, cut down a limb for themselves, and followed Abimelech, and set [them] at the stronghold, and set on fire the stronghold. And about a thousand men and women, all the men of the tower of Shechem, died also.


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And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, upon one stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, was still left; for he hid himself.


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But there was a strong tower in the middle of the city, and all the men and women, and all the leaders of the city, fled there, and shut [it] behind them, and got up to the top of the tower.


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And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and went hard to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.


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Then he called hastily to the young man who was his armor-bearer, and said to him, Draw your sword and kill me, so that men may not say of me, A woman killed him! And his young man thrust him through, and he died.


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And God repaid the evil of Abimelech, that which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers.


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And all the evil of the men of Shechem God sent back upon their heads. And upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.


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And all the leaders of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo. And [they] came and made Abimelech king beside the plain of the pillar in Shechem.


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And when they told Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim. And he lifted up his voice and cried, and said to them, Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.


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But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness with which they honor God and man by me, and go to be promoted over the trees?


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The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth and not only I, but also all those who have known the truth,


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If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into [your] house, nor speak a greeting to him.


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Having many things to write to you, I do not want [to say] with paper and ink. But I trust to come to you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be full.


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Grace will be with you, mercy [and] peace from God [the] Father and from [the] Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.


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I rejoiced greatly that I found your children walking in truth, as we have received command from the Father.


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And now I beseech you, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we had from [the] beginning, that we love one another.


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And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.


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For many deceivers have entered into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in [the] flesh. This is the deceiver and the anti-christ.


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Look to yourselves, so that we may not lose those things which we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward.


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Everyone transgressing and not abiding in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son.


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Therefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, ranting against us with evil words. And not content [with] these, neither does he himself receive the brothers. And he forbids those who would, and casts [them] out of the church.


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Beloved, do not imitate the bad, but the good. He who does good is from God, but he who does evil has not seen God.


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Demetrius has good report by all, and by the truth itself. And we also bear witness, and you know that our witness is true.


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but I trust I shall shortly see you, and we shall speak face to face. Peace [be] to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.


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Beloved, in regard to all things I pray [that] you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.


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For I rejoiced greatly when [the] brothers came and testified of the truth that is in you, even as you walk in the truth.


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who in love bore witness of you before [the] church, whom you will do well to send forward worthily of God;


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I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, did not receive us.


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Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the [ones] called in God [the] Father, having been set apart, and having been kept by Jesus Christ:


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But what things they do not know, they speak evil of. And what things they understand naturally, like the animals without reason, they are corrupted by these.


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Woe to them! For they went the way of Cain, and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.


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These are sunken rocks in your love feasts, feasting together with you; feeding themselves without fear; waterless clouds being carried about by winds; fruitless autumn trees, having died twice, having been plucked up by the roots;


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wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames; wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever.


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And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied to these, saying, Behold, the Lord came with myriads of His saints,


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to do judgment against all, and to rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which they ungodly did, and concerning all the hard things ungodly sinners spoke against Him.


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These are murmurers, complainers, leading lives according to their lusts. And their mouth speaks proud things, admiring faces for the sake of gain.


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because they told you that at [the] last time there will be mockers according to their lusts, leading ungodly lives.


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keep yourselves in the love of God, eagerly awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to everlasting life.


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But save others with fear, snatching [them] out of the fire; hating even the garment having been stained from the flesh.


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Now to Him being able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you before His glory without blemish, with unspeakable joy;


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to the only wise God, our Savior, [be] glory and majesty and might and authority, even now and forever. Amen.


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Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation, beloved, I had need to write to you to exhort [you] to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.


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For certain men crept in secretly, those having been of old previously written into this condemnation, ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God for unbridled lust, and denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.


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But I intend to remind you, you once knowing these things, that the Lord having delivered a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed the ones not believing.


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And those angels not having kept their first place, but having deserted their dwelling-place, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of a great Day;


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as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, committing fornication, and going away after other flesh, laid down an example before-times, undergoing vengeance of everlasting fire.


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Likewise, indeed, also these dreaming ones even defile flesh, and despise rulership, and speak evil of glories.


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But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the Devil, he argued about the body of Moses, he dared not bring a judgment of blasphemy, but said, Let the Lord rebuke you!


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A Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to declare to His servants things which must shortly come to pass. And He signified [it] by sending His angel to His servant John,


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And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. And in the midst of the seven lampstands I saw [One] like [the] Son of man, clothed with a garment down to [the] feet, and tied around the breast with a golden band.


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His head and hair [were] white like wool, as white as snow. And His eyes [were] like a flame of fire.


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And His feet were like burnished brass having been fired in a furnace. And His voice was like the sound of many waters.


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And He had seven stars in His right hand, and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword. And His face [was] like the sun shining in its strength.


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<J>and the Living One, and I became dead, and behold, I am alive for ever and ever, Amen. And I have the keys of hell and of death.</J>


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<J>Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be after this,</J>


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who bore record of the Word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all the things that he saw.


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<J>the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.</J>


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Blessed [is] the [one] who reads and hears the words of this prophecy, and the ones keeping the things written in it, for the time [is] near.


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John to the seven churches which are in Asia. Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who [is] coming; and from the seven spirits which are before His throne;


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even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-born from the dead and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,


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and made us kings and priests to God and His Father, to Him [be] glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.


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Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen.


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I, John, [who] also [am] your brother and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island that is called Patmos, for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.


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And I saw another mighty angel coming down out of the heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow [was] on his head, and his face [was] as the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.


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And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up. And it was sweet as honey in my mouth, and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter.


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And he had a little book open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and [his] left [foot] on the earth.


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And he cried with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. And when he had cried, seven thunders spoke their sounds.


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And when the seven thunders spoke their sounds, I was about to write. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Seal up what things the seven thunders spoke, and do not write these things.


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and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there should no longer be time.


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But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he will begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He has declared to His servants the prophets.


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And the voice which I heard from Heaven spoke to me again, and said, Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth.


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And I went to the angel and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take [it] and eat it up, and it will make your belly bitter, but it will be sweet as honey in your mouth.


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And a reed like a rod was given to me. And the angel stood, saying, Rise up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship in it.


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And the ones who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, and will make merry, and will send one another gifts, because these two prophets tormented those living on the earth.


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And after three days and a half, a spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet. And great fear fell on those seeing them.


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And they heard a great voice from Heaven saying to them, Come up here. And they went up to Heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.


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And in that hour a great earthquake occurred, and the tenth [part] of the city fell. And seven thousand names of men were slain in the earthquake. And the rest were frightened and gave glory to the God of Heaven.


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And the seventh angel sounded. And there were great voices in Heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become [the kingdoms] of our Lord, and of His Christ. And He will reign forever and ever.


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And the twenty-four elders sitting before God on their thrones, fell on their faces and worshiped God,


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saying, We thank You, O Lord God Almighty, who are, and who was, and who is coming, because You took Your great power and reigned.


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And the nations were full of wrath, and Your wrath came, and the time of the judging of the dead, and to give the reward to Your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to the ones fearing Your name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those destroying the earth.


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And the temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His covenant, and there occurred lightnings and voices, and thunders and an earthquake, and a great hail.


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But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it was given to the nations. And they will trample the holy city forty-two months.


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And I will give [power] to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed [in] sackcloth.


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And if anyone will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone will hurt them, so it is right for him to be killed.


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These have authority to shut up the heaven, that it may not rain in the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.


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And when they complete their testimony, the beast coming up out of the abyss will make war against them and will overcome them and kill them.


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And their bodies [will lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.


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And many of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three days and a half, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be put in tombs.


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And there appeared a great sign in the heavens, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon was under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head,


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And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.


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And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony. And they did not love their soul until death.


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Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and those tabernacling in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and in the sea! For the Devil came down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a little time.


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And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who bore the man [child].


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And two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the serpent's face.


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And the serpent cast out of his mouth water like a flood after the woman, so that he might cause her to be carried away by the river.


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And the earth helped the woman. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.


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And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.


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And another sign was seen in the heavens. And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads!


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And his tail drew the third [part] of the stars of heaven, and cast them onto the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman being about to bear, so that when she bears he might devour her child.


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And she bore a son, a male, who is going to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and [to] His throne.


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And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God, so that they might nourish her there a thousand, two hundred [and] sixty days.


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And there was war in Heaven. Michael and his angels warring against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels warred,


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And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent called Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.


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And I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And on its horns were ten crowns, and on its heads was the name of blasphemy.


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He who leads into captivity will go into captivity. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed by a sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.


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And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. And it had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.


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And it exercises all the authority of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and those dwelling in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.


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And it does great wonders, so that it makes fire come down from the heaven onto the earth in the sight of men.


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And it deceives those dwelling on the earth, because of the miracles which were given to it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the wound by a sword and lived.


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And there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might both speak, and might cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.


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And it causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads,


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even that not any might buy or sell except those having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name.


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Here is the wisdom. Let him having reason count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. And its number [is] six hundred [and] sixty-six.


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And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and its feet like [those] of a bear, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him its power and its seat and great authority.


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And I saw one of its heads as having been slain to death, and its deadly wound was healed. And all the earth marveled after the beast.


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And they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, Who [is] like the beast? Who is able to make war with it?


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And a mouth speaking great things was given to it, and blasphemies. And authority was given to it to continue forty-two months.


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And it opened its mouth in blasphemy toward God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those dwelling in Heaven.


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And it was given to it to war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given to it over every tribe and tongue and nation.


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And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the world.


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And I looked, and lo, the Lamb stood on Mount Zion. And with Him were a hundred [and] forty-four thousands, having His Father's name written in their foreheads.


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he also will drink of the wine of the anger of God, having been mixed undiluted in the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented by fire and brimstone before the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.


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And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. And they have no rest day or night, those who worship the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.


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Here is the patience of the saints. Here [are] the ones who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.


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And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow them.


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And I looked, and behold, a white cloud. And on the cloud sat one like the Son of man, having a golden crown on His head, and a sharp sickle in His hand.


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And another angel came out of the temple, crying in a great voice to Him sitting on the cloud, Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth was dried.


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And another angel came out from the altar, who had authority over fire. And he spoke with a great cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.


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And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast [it] into the great winepress of the anger of God.


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And I heard a voice from Heaven, like the voice of many waters and like the voice of a great thunder. And I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.


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And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, for the space of a thousand, six hundred stadia.


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And they sang as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn that song except the hundred [and] forty-four thousands who were redeemed from the earth.


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These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, [as a] firstfruit to God and to the Lamb.


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And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those dwelling on the earth, even to every nation and kindred and tongue and people,


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saying with a great voice, Fear God and give glory to Him! For the hour of His judgment has come. And worship Him who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.


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And another angel followed, saying, The great city, Babylon, has fallen, has fallen; because of the wine of the anger of her fornication; she has made all nations to drink.


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And a third angel followed them, saying with a great voice, If anyone worships the beast and its image, and receives a mark in his forehead or in his hand,


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And I saw another sign in Heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels with the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.


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And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire. And those who had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, [and] over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.


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And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous [are] Your works, Lord God Almighty, just and true [are] Your ways, O King of saints.


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Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You only [are] holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your righteousnesses were made known.


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And after these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony was opened in Heaven.


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And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and were tied at the breasts with golden bands.


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And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.


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And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from His authority. And no one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.


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And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the vials of the anger of God on the earth.


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And the fifth angel poured out his vial on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom became darkened. And they gnawed their tongues from the pain.


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And they blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores. And they did not repent of their deeds.


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And the sixth angel poured out his vial on the great river Euphrates. And its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from [the] rising of [the] sun might be prepared.


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And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs [come] out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.


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For they are spirits of demons, working miracles, [which] go forth to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that day, the great day of God Almighty.


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And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air. And a great voice came out of the temple of Heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done!


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And voices and thunders and lightnings occurred. And there was a great earthquake, such as has not been since men were on the earth, so mighty [and] so great an earthquake.


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And the great city came to be into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the anger of His wrath.


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And the first went and poured out his vial on the earth. And a bad and grievous sore fell on the men who had the mark of the beast, and [on] those who worshiped his image.


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And a great hail, as the size of a talent, came down out of the heaven on men. And men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of it was exceedingly great.


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And the second angel poured out his vial on the sea. And it became like the blood of a dead one, and every living soul died in the sea.


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And the third angel poured out his vial on the rivers and fountains of waters, and they became blood.


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And I heard the angel of the waters say, Righteous is the Lord, who is, and was, and who will be, because You have judged these things,


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since they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets; and You gave them blood to drink, for they were deserving.


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And I heard another out of the altar saying, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous [are] Your judgments.


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And the fourth angel poured out his vial onto the sun. And it was given to him to burn men with fire.


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And men were burned with great heat. And they blasphemed the name of God, He having authority over these plagues. And they did not repent in order to give Him glory.


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And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came and talked with me, saying to me, Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot sitting on many waters,


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And there are seven kings; five have fallen, and one is, [and] the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time.


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And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.


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And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have received no kingdom yet, but will receive authority as kings one hour with the beast.


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These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them. For He is Lord of lords and King of kings. And those with Him [are] the called and elect and faithful ones.


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And he says to me, The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues,


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and the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked. And they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.


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For God gave into their hearts to do His mind, and to act with one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God will be fulfilled.


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with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and became drunk with the wine of her fornication, those inhabiting the earth.


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And he carried me away into a desert by [the] Spirit. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.


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And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet. And she was gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.


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And on her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.


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And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling.


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And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, that has the seven heads and ten horns.


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The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to ascend out of the abyss and go into perdition. And those dwelling on the earth will marvel, those whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.


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And after these things I saw another angel come down from Heaven, having great authority. And the earth was lighted up from his glory.


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standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, Babylon, that strong city! For in one hour your judgment came.


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the cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of very precious wood, and of bronze, and of iron, and of marble,


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and cinnamon, and incenses, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.


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And the fruits of the lust of your soul have departed from you, and all the fat things and the bright things departed from you, and you will find them no more, not at all.


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The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand afar off because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning


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and saying, Woe! Woe to the great city which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!


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For in one hour such great riches was desolated. And every ship-pilot, and all the company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood afar off.


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And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, by which all who had ships in the sea were rich out of her costliness! For in one hour she was ruined.


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And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen! And it has become the dwelling-place of demons, and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean bird which has been hated,


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Rejoice over her, Heaven, and the holy apostles, and the prophets, since God judged your judgment on her.


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And one strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw [it] into the sea, saying, So on an impulse the great city, Babylon, will be thrown down and not at all will be found any more.


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And the voice of harpers, and of musicians. and flutists, and of trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. And every craftsman of any craft will not be found any more in you. And the sound of a mill will never more be heard at all in you.


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And the light of a lamp will never more shine at all in you. And the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will never more be heard at all in you. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by your sorceries all nations were deceived.


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And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all those who were slain on the earth.


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because of the wine of the anger of her fornication which all the nations have drunk. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. And the merchants of the earth became rich from the power of her luxury.


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And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that you may not be partakers of her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues.


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Reward her as she has rewarded you, and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix double to her.


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As much as she has glorified herself and has lived in luxury, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all.


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Therefore her plagues will come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she will be consumed with fire, for the Lord God who judges her [is] strong.


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And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived in luxury with her will weep for her, and will wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning;


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And after these things I heard a great sound of a numerous crowd in Heaven, saying, Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and honor and the power to the Lord our God!


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And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said to me, See, do not do it! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.


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And I saw Heaven opened. And behold, a white horse! And He sitting on him [was] called Faithful and True. And in righteousness He judges and makes war.


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And His eyes [were] like a flame of fire, and on His head many crowns. And He had a name written, one that no one knew except Himself.


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And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, so that with it He should strike the nations. And He will shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He treads the winepress of the wine of the anger and of the wrath of Almighty God.


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And I saw one angel standing in the sun. And he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come and gather together to the supper of the great God,


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so that you may eat the flesh of kings, and [the] flesh of commanders, and [the] flesh of strong ones, and [the] flesh of horses, and those sitting on them, and [the] flesh of all, both free and slave, both small and great.


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And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth and their armies, being gathered to make war against Him who sat on the horse, and against His army.


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For true and righteous [are] His judgments. For He has judged the great harlot who defiled the earth with her fornication, and He has avenged the blood of His servants out of her hand.


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And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet doing signs before it, (by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast), and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone.


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And the rest were slain by the sword of Him who sat on the horse, it proceeding out of His mouth. And all the birds were filled from their flesh.


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And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God sitting on the throne, saying, Amen! Hallelujah!


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And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all His servants, and the ones fearing Him, the small and great.


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And I heard as the sound of a great multitude, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of strong thunders, saying, Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigns!


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Let us be glad and rejoice and we will give glory to Him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself.


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And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. For the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.


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And he said to me, Write, Blessed [are] those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true sayings of God.


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<J>To the angel of the church of Ephesus write: He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands, says these things.</J>


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<J>Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast [some] of you into prison, so that you may be tried. And you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.</J>


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<J>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.</J>


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<J>And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write: He who has the sharp sword with two edges says these things.</J>


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<J>I know your works, and where you live, [even] where Satan's seat [is]. And you hold fast My name and have not denied My faith, even in those days in which Antipas [was] My faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.</J>


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<J>But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.</J>


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<J>Repent! But if not I will come to you quickly, and will fight with them by the sword of My mouth.</J>


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<J>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows except he who receives [it].</J>


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<J>And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: The Son of God, He who has His eyes like a flame of fire and His feet like burnished metal, says these things:</J>


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<J>I know your works and love and service and faith and your patience, and your works; and the last [to be] more than the first.</J>


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<J>I know your works and your labor and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil. And [you] tried those pretending to be apostles, and are not, and have found them liars.</J>


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<J>But I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach, she saying herself [to be] a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray, and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices.</J>


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<J>Behold, I am throwing her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of their deeds.</J>


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<J>And I will kill her children with death. And all the churches will know that I am He who searches the reins and hearts, and I will give to every one of you according to your works.</J>


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<J>But to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak, I will put on you no other burden.</J>


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<J>And he who overcomes and keeps My works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations.</J>


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<J>And he will rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels [of a potter] they will be broken to pieces, even as I received from My Father.</J>


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<J>And [you] have borne, and have patience, and for My name's sake you have labored and have not fainted.</J>


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<J>Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent, and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent.</J>


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<J>He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.</J>


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<J>And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The First and the Last, who became dead and lived, says these things:</J>


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<J>I know your works and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich), and [I know] the blasphemy of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan.</J>


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And I saw an angel come down from Heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.


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And the Devil who deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [were]. And he will be tormented day and night forever and ever.


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And I saw a great white throne, and Him sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And a place was not found for them.


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And I saw the dead, the small and the great, stand before God. And books were opened, and another book was opened, [which is] the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.


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And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead in them. And each one of them was judged according to their works.


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And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire.


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And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.


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And he cast him into the abyss and shut him up and set a seal on him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that he must be loosed a little time.


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And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And [I saw] the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received [his] mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.


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But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.


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Blessed and holy [is] he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years.


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And he will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. The number of them [is] as the sand of the sea.


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And they went up over the breadth of the earth and circled around the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of Heaven and devoured them.


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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And the sea no longer is.


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And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God,


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having the glory of God. And its light [was] like a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.


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And it] had a great and high wall, with twelve gates. And on the gates were twelve angels, and having names inscribed, which are the names] of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel:


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From the east three gates, from the north three gates, from the south three gates, and from the west three gates.


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And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.


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And the city lies four-square, and the length is as large as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand stadia. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.


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And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.


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And the foundations of the wall of the city had been adorned with every precious stone. The first foundation, jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;


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And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her Husband.


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the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.


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And the twelve gates [were] twelve pearls. Respectively, each one of the gates was one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass.


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And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they might shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp [is] the Lamb.


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And the nations of those who are saved will walk in the light of it; and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.


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And there shall in no way enter into it anything that defiles, or any making an abomination or a lie; but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.


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And I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and He will dwell with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.


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And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there will be no more death, nor mourning, nor crying out, nor will there be any more pain; for the first things passed away.


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And He sitting on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me, Write, for these words are true and faithful.


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And He said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely.


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But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.


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And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.


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And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.


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He acting unjustly, let him still act unjustly. And the filthy, let him be filthy still. And the righteous, let him be righteous still. And the holy, let him be holy still.


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<J>And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward [is] with Me, to give to each according as his work is.</J>


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<J>Blessed [are] they who do His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and they may enter in by the gates into the city.</J>


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<J>But outside [are] the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie.</J>


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<J>I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify these things to you over the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright and Morning Star.</J>


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And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let the [one] hearing say, Come! And let the one] who is thirsty come. And he willing, let him take of the water of life freely.


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For I testify together [to] everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add on him the plagues that have been written in this Book.


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And if anyone takes away from the words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which have been written in this Book.


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In the midst of its street, and of the river, from here and from there, [was] the Tree of Life, which bore twelve fruits, each yielding its fruit according to one month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.


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And every curse will no longer be; but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His servants will serve Him.


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And there will be no night there. And they need no lamp, or light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light. And they will reign forever and ever.


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And he said to me, These sayings [are] faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show to His servants the things which must shortly be done.


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And I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel showing me these things.


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Then he said to me, Behold! See, do not do it! For I am your fellow-servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this Book. Do worship to God.


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<J>And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things. I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead.</J>


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<J>Because you have kept the word of My patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation which will come upon all the habitable world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.</J>


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<J>Behold, I come quickly. Hold fast to that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.</J>


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<J>Him who overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God, and My new name.</J>


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<J>And to the angel of the church of the Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Head of the creation of God, says these things:</J>


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<J>Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,</J>


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<J>I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and [so that] the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.</J>


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<J>Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found your works being fulfilled before God.</J>


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<J>Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.</J>


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<J>To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with My Father in His throne.</J>


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<J>Remember then how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.</J>


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<J>You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.</J>


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<J>The one who overcomes, this one will be clothed in white clothing. And I will not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.</J>


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<J>And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts; and shuts and no one opens, says these things:</J>


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<J>I know your works. Behold, I have given before you an open door, and no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My word and have not denied My name.</J>


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<J>Behold, I give out of those of the synagogue of Satan, those saying themselves to be Jews and are not, but lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.</J>


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the twenty-four elders fell down before the One sitting on the throne. And they worshiped Him who lives for ever and ever, and threw their crowns before the throne, saying,


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O Lord, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You created all things, and for Your will they are and were created.


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And immediately I became in spirit. And behold, a throne was set in Heaven, and [One] sat upon the throne.


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And He who sat there looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. And a rainbow [was] around the throne, looking like an emerald.


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And around the throne [I saw] twenty-four thrones. And on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white clothing. And they had crowns of gold on their heads.


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And out of the throne came lightnings and thunderings and voices. And seven lamps of fire [were] burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.


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And a sea of glass [was] in front of the throne, like crystal. And in [the] midst of the throne, and around the throne, [were] four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind.


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And the first living creature [was] like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature had the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.


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And each one of the four living creatures had six wings about [him], and within being full of eyes. And they had no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and [is] to come.


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And whenever the living creatures gave glory and honor and thanks to Him who sat on the throne, who lives forever and ever,


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And I saw a book on the right of Him sitting on the throne, written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.


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And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, and the living creatures and the elders. And the number of them was myriads and myriads, and thousands of thousands,


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saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.


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And I heard every creature which is in the Heaven and on the earth, and under the earth, and those that are in the sea, and all who are in them, saying, Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb forever and ever.


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And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped [the] One living forever and ever.


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And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loosen its seals?


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And no one in Heaven, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book or to look at it.


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And I wept very much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the book, nor to look at it.


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And one of the elders said to me, Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals of it.


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And I looked, and lo, in [the] midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, amidst the elders, a Lamb stood, as if it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.


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And when He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having harps and golden vials full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.


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And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation.


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And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures like a sound of thunder, saying, Come and see.


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And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Until when, Master, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?


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And white robes were given to each one of them. And it was said to them that they should rest yet for a little time, until both their fellow servants and their brothers (those about to be killed as they [were] ) should have their number made complete.


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And when He had opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.


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And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind.


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And [the] heaven departed like a scroll when it is rolled together. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places.


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And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.


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And they said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from [the] face of Him sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;


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And I saw. And behold a white horse! And he sitting on it had a bow. And a crown was given to him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer.


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And another, a red horse, went out. And power was given to him sitting on it, to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. And there was given to him a great sword.


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And when He had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come and see. And I looked, and lo, a black horse. And he sitting on it had a balance in his hand.


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And I heard a voice in [the] midst of the four living creatures say, A choenix of wheat [for] a denarius, and three choenixes of barley [for] a denarius. And do not hurt the oil and the wine.


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And I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him sitting on it [was] Death, and Hell followed with him. And authority was given to them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword and with hunger and with death and by the beasts of the earth.


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And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.


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And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth so that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.


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And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb.


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And all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders, and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God,


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saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might [be] to our God forever and ever. Amen.


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And one of the elders answered, saying to me, Who are these who are arrayed in white robes, and from where do they come?


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And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.


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Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His temple. And He sitting on the throne will dwell among them.


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For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will feed them and will lead them to [the] fountains of living waters. And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.


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And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,


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saying, Do not hurt the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.


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And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred [and] forty-four thousands, having been sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel.


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Out of the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand had been sealed.


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Out of the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand had been sealed.


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Out of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand had been sealed.


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Out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand had been sealed. Out of the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand had been sealed.


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After these things I looked, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palms in their hands.


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And the third angel sounded, and a great star burning like a lamp fell from the heaven, and it fell on the third [part] of the rivers and on the fountains of waters.


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And the name of the star is called Wormwood, and a third [part] of the waters became wormwood. And many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.


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And the fourth angel sounded, and the third [part] of the sun was stricken, and the third [part] of the moon, and the third [part] of the stars, so that the third [part] of them was darkened, and the day did not appear for a third [part] of it, and the night also.


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And I saw and I heard one angel flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels being about to sound!


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And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer. And many incenses were given to him, so that he should offer [it] with the prayers of all saints on the golden altar before the throne.


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And the smoke of the incense [which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God from the angel's hand.


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And the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar, and cast [it] into the earth. And voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake occurred.


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The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were cast on the earth. And the third [part] of trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up.


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And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea. And the third [part] of the sea became blood.


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And the third [part] of the creatures in the sea, those having souls, died; and the third [part] of the ships was destroyed.


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And the fifth angel sounded. And I saw a star fall from the heaven to the earth, and it was given the key of the abyss.


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And they had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. And their authority [was] to hurt men five months.


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And they had a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in Greek his name [is] Apollyon.


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And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet. And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,


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saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Loose the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.


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And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, in order to slay the third [part] of men.


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And the number of the armies of the horsemen [was] two myriads of myriads. And I heard their number.


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And so I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting on them, having breastplates of fire, even dusky red and brimstone. And the heads of the horses [were] like the heads of lions. And out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.


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By these three the third [part] of men was killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths.


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For their authority is in their mouth and in their tails. For their tails [were] like serpents with heads, and with them they do harm.


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And it opened the bottomless pit. And there arose a smoke out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.


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And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues [still] did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and golden, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols (which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk).


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And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.


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And out of the smoke came forth locusts onto the earth. And authority was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have authority.


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And they were commanded not to hurt the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads.


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And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months. And their torment [was] like a scorpion's torment when he stings a man.


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And in those days men will seek death and will not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.


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And the shapes of the locusts [were] like horses prepared for battle. And on their heads were as it [were] crowns like gold, and their faces [were] like the faces of men.


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And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron. And the sound of their wings [was] like the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.


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And it happened in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.


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And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Why will you go with me? [Are] there yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?


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Turn again, my daughters, go. For I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have a husband also tonight, and should also bear sons,


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would you wait for them until they were grown? Will you shut yourselves up, not to have a husband? No, my daughters, for it makes me very sad for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.


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And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law. But Ruth clung to her.


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And she said, Behold, Your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law.


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And Ruth said, Do not beg me to leave you, to return from following after you. For where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay. Your people [shall be] my people, and your God my God.


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Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if anything] but death parts you and me.


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And both of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened when they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi?


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And the name of the man [was] Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. And they came to the fields of Moab and stayed there.


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And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara. For the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.


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I went out full, and the LORD has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?


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And Naomi returned; and Ruth, who was of Moab, her daughter-in-law, was with her, returning out of the fields of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.


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And they took wives for themselves from the women of Moab. The name of the one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.


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And Mahlon and Chilion also died, both of them. And the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.


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Then she arose with her daughters-in-law so that she might return from the fields of Moab. For she had heard in the fields of Moab how the LORD had visited His people in giving them bread.


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And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.


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And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each one to her mother's house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.


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May the LORD grant you that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice and wept.


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And Naomi [had] a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech. And his name [was] Boaz.


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Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found grace in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I [am] a foreigner?


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And Boaz answered and said to her, It has been fully shown to me all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, And you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before now.


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May the LORD repay your work, and may a full reward be given you from the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to trust.


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Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me; for you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not like one of your handmaidens.


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And Boaz said to her, At mealtime come here and eat of the bread and dip your bit in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers. And he handed her roasted [grain], and she ate and was satisfied, and left.


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And when she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not rebuke her.


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And also let fall of the handfuls on purpose for her, and leave them so that she may glean [them], and do not rebuke her.


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And she gleaned in the field until the evening, and beat out what she had gleaned. And it was about an ephah of barley.


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And she took [it] up and went into the city. And her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought it forth, and gave to her what she had kept after she was satisfied.


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And her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today? And where did you work? Blessed is he who took notice of you. And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, The man's name with whom I worked today [is Boaz.


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And Ruth of Moab said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field and glean ears of grain after [him] in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.


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And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed [is] he of the LORD, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said to her, The man [is] near of kin to us, he is of our redeemers.


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And Ruth of Moab said, He said to me also, You shall keep close by my young men whom I have until they have ended all my harvest.


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And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, Good, my daughter. You go out with his maidens so that they do not fall upon you in any other field.


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And she kept close by the maidens of Boaz to glean until the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.


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And she went. And she came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come upon a part of the field of Boaz, who [was] of the kindred of Elimelech.


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And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, The LORD [be] with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless you.


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And the servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It [is] the girl from Moab who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.


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And she said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. And she came, and has kept on from the morning until now, but that she stayed a little in the house.


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And Boaz said to Ruth, Do you not hear, my daughter? Do not go to glean in another field, neither go away from here, but stay here close by my maidens.


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[Let] your eyes [be] on the field that they reap, and go after them. Have I not commanded the young men that they shall not touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink of that which the young men have drawn.


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And her mother-in-law Naomi said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you so that it may be well with you?


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And He said, Blessed [be] you of the LORD, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, in that you did not follow young men, whether poor or rich.


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And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do to you all that you ask. For all the city of my people knows that you [are] a woman of virtue.


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Stay tonight, and it shall be in the morning, if he will redeem you, well; he will redeem. And if he does not delight to redeem you, [as] the LORD lives, then I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.


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And she lay at his feet until the morning. And she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Do not let it be known that a woman came to the floor.


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Also, he said, Bring the veil on you, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six [measures] of barley and laid it on her. And she went to the city.


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And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who [are] you, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.


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And she said, These six [measures] of barley he gave to me. For he said to me, Do not go empty to your mother-in-law.


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And she said, Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall. For the man will not rest until he has finished the thing today.


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And now [is] not Boaz of our kindred, he with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing-floor.


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Therefore wash yourself, and anoint yourself, and put your clothing upon you, and go down to the floor. Do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.


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And when he lies down, you mark the place where he lies, and you shall go in and uncover his feet and lie down. And he will tell you what you shall do.


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And when Boaz had eaten and had drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap. And she came softly and uncovered his feet, and lay down.


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And it happened at midnight, the man trembled and turned himself. And, behold, a woman lay at his feet.


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And he said, Who [are] you? And she answered, I [am] your handmaid Ruth. And you shall spread your skirt over your handmaid, for you [are] a kinsman-redeemer.


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And Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. And he said, Such a one! Turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down.


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And also Ruth of Moab, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are] witnesses this day.


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And all the people in the gate, and the elders, said, We [are] witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, for these two built the house of Israel. And may you be blessed in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem.


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And let your house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give you of this young woman.


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And Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife. And when he went in to her, the LORD made her conceive. And she bore a son.


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And the women said to Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, so that his name may be famous in Israel.


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And he shall be to you as a restorer of life, and one who cheers your old age. For your daughter-in-law who loves you has borne him, she who is better to you than seven sons.


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And the women, her neighbors, gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi. And they called his name Obed. He [is] the father of Jesse, the father of David.


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And he said to the kinsman, Naomi, who has come again out of the country of Moab, sells a parcel of land which [was] our brother Elimelech's.


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And I said I will tell it in your ear, saying, Buy [it] before those who live here, and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem, redeem [it]. But if you will not redeem, tell me so that I may know. For there is none to redeem besides you. And I am after you. And he said, I will redeem.


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And Boaz said, In the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy also from the hand of Ruth of Moab, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.


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And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. You redeem my right to yourself, for I cannot redeem.


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And this [was the custom] in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, to confirm everything. A man plucked off his sandal and gave it to his neighbor. And this was a testimony in Israel.


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And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, You [are] witnesses this day that I have bought all that [was] Elimelech's and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.


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And there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim from the hills of Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.


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And she vowed a vow and said, O, Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look upon the affliction of Your handmaid and remember me, and not forget Your handmaid, but will give to Your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.


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Now Hannah spoke in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. And Eli thought she had become drunk.


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And Hannah answered, No, my lord, I [am] a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have neither drunk wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.


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Do not count your handmaid for a daughter of wickedness, for out of the abundance of my meditation and grief I have spoken until now.


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And Eli answered and said, Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant [to you] your petition that you have asked of Him.


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And she said, Let your handmaid find grace in your sight. So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer [sad].


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And they rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her.


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And he had two wives, the name of the one [was] Hannah, and the name of the second, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.


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And it happened when the time had come around, Hannah conceived and bore a son and called his name Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD.


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And the man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and his vow.


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But Hannah did not go up. For she said to her husband, Until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him so that he may appear before the LORD and stay there forever.


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And Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems good to you. Stay until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD establish His word. So the woman stayed and gave her son suck until she weaned him.


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And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls and one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in Shiloh. And the child [was] young.


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And she said, O, my lord, [as] your soul lives, my lord, I [am] the woman who stood by you here, praying to the LORD.


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And I have returned him to the LORD. As long as he lives, he shall be given to the LORD. And he worshiped the LORD there.


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And this man went up out of his city from year to year, to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, [were] there.


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And the time came that Elkanah offered, he gave portions to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters.


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And her foe also provoked her grievously, in order to make her tremble, because the LORD had shut up her womb.


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And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her. And she wept and did not eat.


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And Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? [Am] I not better to you than ten sons?


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And Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh and after they had drunk. And Eli the priest sat on the seat by the side post of the temple of the LORD.


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And Samuel took a vial of oil and poured on his head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because the LORD has anointed you for a leader over His inheritance?


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And they came there to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him. And the Spirit of God came on him, and he prophesied among them.


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And it happened when all who knew him before saw him, behold, he prophesied among the prophets. And the people said to one another, What [is] this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?


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And a man from there answered and said, And who [is] their father? Therefore it became a proverb, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?


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And Saul's uncle said to him and to his young man, Where did you go? And he said, To look for the asses. And when we saw that [they were] nowhere, we came to Samuel.


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And Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But he did not tell him of the matter of the kingdom of which Samuel spoke.


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And he said to the sons of Israel, So says the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, of those who oppressed you.


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And you have this day rejected your God who Himself saved you out of all your calamities and your tribulations. And you have said to Him, But set a king over us. And now present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands.


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When you have departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel's tomb in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. And they will say to you, The asses which you went to seek are found. And, lo, your father has quit caring for the asses and sorrows for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?


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When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken. And they looked for him, but he could not be found.


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And they inquired of the LORD further, Has the man yet come here? And the LORD answered, Behold, he is hiding himself among the baggage.


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And they ran and brought him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was taller than all of the people from the shoulders and upward.


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And Samuel said to all the people, Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen, that [there is] none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, Let the king live!


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Then Samuel told the people the duties of the kingdom, and wrote in a book and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, each to his house.


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But the sons of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him and brought him no present. But he was silent.


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And you shall go forward from there, and you shall come to the great tree of Tabor. And there you shall meet three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.


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After that you shall come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines [is]. And it will happen to you when you come there to the city, even you shall meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a harp and a tambourine and a flute and a lyre before them. And they shall prophesy.


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And the spirit of the LORD will come powerfully on you, and you shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.


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And it will be when these signs have come to you, you will do for yourself what your hand finds; for God [is] with you.


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And you shall go down before me to Gilgal. And, behold, I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings [and] to sacrifice peace offerings. You shall stay seven days until I come to you and make known to you what you shall do.


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And it happened when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God changed him with another heart. And all those signs came on that day.


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And Nahash the Ammonite came up and camped against Jabesh-gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.


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And the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.


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And it was [so] on the next day, Saul put the people in three companies, and they came into the middle of the army at the morning watch. And they killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And the ones who remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.


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And the people said to Samuel, Who [is] he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? Bring the men so that we may put them to death.


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And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day, for today the LORD has worked salvation in Israel.


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And all the people went [to] Gilgal, and made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal, and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.


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And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, With this I will make a covenant with you, when all your right eyes are dug out and I will make it a reproach on all Israel.


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And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Bear with us seven days, so that we may send messengers to all the territory of Israel. And then if [there is] no man to save us, we will come out to you.


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Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and told the news in ears of the people. And all the people lifted up their voices and wept.


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And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field. And Saul said, What [is wrong] with the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh.


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And the Spirit of God came powerfully on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly.


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And he took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, and sent throughout all the territory of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out as one man.


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And when he numbered them in Bezek, the sons of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.


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And they said to the messengers that came, So shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow by [the time] the sun is hot, you shall have help. And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, and they were glad.


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And Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.


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And they cried to the LORD, and said, We have sinned because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served the Baals and Ashtoreths. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.


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And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived safely.


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And when you saw that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us, even though the LORD your God [was] your King.


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And now, behold the king whom you have chosen, whom you have desired! And behold, the LORD has set a king over you!


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If you will fear the LORD, and serve Him, and listen to His voice, and not rebel against the command of the LORD, then both you and also the king who reigns over you shall continue following the LORD your God.


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But if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the command of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD shall be against you as [it was] against your fathers.


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[Is it] not wheat harvest today? I will call to the LORD, and He shall send thunder and rain, so that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, that which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking a king for you.


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And Samuel called to the LORD, And the LORD sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.


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And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, so that we will not die. For we have added evil to all our sins, to ask a king for us.


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And now, behold, the king walks before you. And I am old and gray-headed, and, behold, my sons [are] with you. And I have walked before you from my childhood to this day.


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And Samuel said to the people, Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness. Yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.


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For the LORD will not forsake His people for His great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you His people.


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Also, I, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD from ceasing to pray for you. But I will teach you the good and the right way.


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Only fear the LORD, and serve Him in truth with all your heart. For consider what great [things] He has done for you.


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Behold, here I [am]. Witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received a bribe, to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you.


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And they said, You have not defrauded us nor oppressed us, neither have you taken from any man's hand.


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And he said to them, The LORD [is] witness against you, and His anointed [is] witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.


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And Samuel said to the people, [It is] the LORD who made Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.


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And now stand still, so that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD which He did to you and to your fathers.


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When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them live in this place.


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And they forgot the LORD their God. And He sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.


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And it happened as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and to kneel to him.


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And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and you did not come in the days appointed, and the Philistines gathered themselves at Michmash,


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and I said, The Philistines will come down now on me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the LORD. And I forced myself and offered a burnt offering.


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And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you. For now the LORD would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.


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But now your kingdom shall not stand. The LORD has sought Him a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him to be leader over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.


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And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people present with him, about six hundred men.


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And Saul, and his son Jonathan, and the people present with them, stayed in Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines camped in Michmash.


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And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned to the way [to] Ophrah, to the land of Shual.


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And another company turned the way [to] Beth-horon. And one company turned the way of the border that looks toward the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.


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And there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel. For the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.


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then Saul chose for himself three thousand from Israel. Two thousand of these were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And of the rest of the people he sent each man to his tent.


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But all the Israelites went down [to] the Philistines, each man to sharpen his plowshare, and his mattock, and his axe, and his coulter.


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And there was the [charge] of a pim for the plowshares, and for the mattocks, and for the three-pronged forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the plowshares.


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And it happened in the day of battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan. But with Saul and with his son Jonathan there [was] found [sword and spear].


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And Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines in Geba, and the Philistines heard. And Saul blew the ram's horn throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.


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And all Israel heard, saying, Saul has struck a garrison of the Philistines, and also Israel has made himself stink to the Philistines. And the people were called to Gilgal after Saul.


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And the Philistines gathered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.


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And the men of Israel saw that they were in a tight place (for the people were distressed). And the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.


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And the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. And Saul [was] still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him, trembling.


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And he waited seven days, according to the set time with Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal. And the people were scattered from him.


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And Saul said, Bring a burnt offering here to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.


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And the day came that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, Come and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison which [is] on the other side. But he did not tell his father.


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But if they say this, Come up to us, then we will go up, for the LORD has delivered them up into our hand. And this [shall be] a sign to us.


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And both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.


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And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, Come up to us, and we will teach you a thing. And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, Come up after me, for the LORD has delivered them into the hand of Israel.


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And Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed after him.


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And this [was] the first blow, when Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck about twenty men in about half of a furrow of an acre of a field.


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And there was trembling in the army, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and the spoilers also trembled, and the earth quaked, and it was a very great trembling.


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And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude had melted away and went on here and there.


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And Saul said to the people with him, Number now and see who is gone from us. And when they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer [were] not [there.]


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And Saul said to Ahiah, Bring the ark of God here. For the ark of God was at that time with the sons of Israel.


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And it happened, while Saul talked to the priest, the noise in the army of the Philistines went on and grew greater. And Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand.


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And Saul stayed in the edge of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree in Migron. And the people who were with him were about six hundred men.


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And Saul and all the people with him gathered, and they went to the battle. And, behold, every man's sword [was] against his fellow, a very great panic.


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And the Hebrews that [were] with the Philistines before, who had gone up with them into the camp all around, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.


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And all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in mount Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, even they also followed them in the battle.


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And the men of Israel were distressed on that day. For Saul had commanded the people, saying, Cursed [is] the man that eats food until evening, so that I may be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.


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And when the people had come into the woods, behold, a flow of honey! But no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.


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But Jonathan did not hear when his father made the people swear. And [he] put forth the end of the rod in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth. And his eyes were lightened.


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And one from the people answered and said, Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed [is] the man who eats food this day. And the people were weary.


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Then Jonathan said, My father has troubled the land. Please see how my eyes have been lightened because I tasted a little of this honey.


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And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone.


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How much more if the people had happened to eat freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? For would not there have been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?


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And the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and killed [them] on the ground. And the people ate with the blood.


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And they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD in that they eat with the blood. And he said, You have transgressed. Roll a great stone to me today.


