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Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons to be runaways, and his daughters to go into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.


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And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites. And they completely destroyed them and their cities. And he called the name of the place Hormah.


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We have cast them down. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah which [is] to Medeba.


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And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who [were] there.


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And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon.


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So they struck him and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him alive. And they possessed his land.


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And they pulled up from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was very discouraged because of the way.


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And the people spoke against God and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For [there is] no bread, neither is there any water. And our soul hates this light bread.


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And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many people of Israel died.


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And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. And it shall be when everyone that is bitten, when he looks upon it, he shall live.


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And Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole. And it happened that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked upon the serpent of brass, he lived.


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And the sons of Israel pulled up and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho.


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Behold! A people has come out of Egypt which covers the face of the earth. Come now, curse them for me. Perhaps, I shall be able to overcome them and drive them out.


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And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they [are] blessed.


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And Balaam rose up in the morning and said to the leaders of Balak, Go into your land, for the LORD refuses to let me go with you.


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And they came to Balaam and said to him, So says Balak the son of Zippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me.


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For I will raise you up to very great honor, and I will do whatever you say to me. Please come then and curse this people for me.


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And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.


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And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up, go with them. But still, the word which I shall say to you, that you shall do.


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And God's anger was kindled because he went. And the Angel of the LORD stood in the way as an enemy against him. And he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants with him.


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And the ass saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the way, and His sword drawn in His hand. And the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field. And Balaam struck the ass, to turn her into the way.


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But the Angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall on this side, and a wall on that side.


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And when the ass saw the Angel of the LORD, she pushed herself into the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. And he struck her again.


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And the Angel of the LORD went further and stood in a narrow place, where [there was] no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.


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And when the ass saw the Angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the ass with a staff.


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And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have beaten me these three times?


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And Balaam said to the ass, Because you have mocked me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you.


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And Moab was much afraid of the people because they [were] many. And Moab was worried because of the sons of Israel.


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And the ass said to Balaam, [Am] I not your ass, upon which you have ridden ever since [I was] yours, to this day? Was I ever known to do so to you? And he said, No.


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Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the way, and His sword drawn in His hand. And he bowed down his head, and fell on his face.


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And the Angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you beaten your ass these three times? Behold! I went out to be an enemy to you, because your [way] is perverse before Me.


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And the ass saw Me and turned from Me these three times. Unless she had turned from Me, surely now I also would have killed you and saved her alive.


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And Balaam said to the Angel of the LORD, I have sinned. For I did not know that You stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases You, I will go back again.


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And the Angel of the LORD said to Balaam, Go with the men. But only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the leaders of Balak.


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And when Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him, to a city of Moab, in the border of Arnon, which [is] in the outermost border.


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And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able indeed to lift you up to honor?


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And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I shall speak.


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And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now this company is licking up all around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor [was] king of the Moabites at that time.


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And it happened on the next day Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal, so that from there he might see the edge of the people.


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He sent messengers therefore to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, by the river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold! A people come out from Egypt. Behold! They cover the face of the earth, and they are staying across from me.


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Therefore, I pray you, come now and curse this people for me. For they [are] too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail so that we may strike them, and so that I may drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.


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And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian pulled up with the rewards of divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him.


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And he said to them, stay here tonight, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak to me. And the leaders of Moab stayed with Balaam.


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And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare here seven oxen and seven rams for me.


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Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!


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And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have kept on blessing [them]!


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And Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place from where you may see them. You shall see only their edge, and shall not see them all. And curse them from there for me.


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And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on [every] altar.


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And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, What has the LORD spoken?


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God [is] not a man that He should lie, neither the son of man that He should repent. Has He said, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken, and shall He not make it good?


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He has not seen iniquity in Jacob, neither has He seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God [is] with him, and the shout of a king among them.


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Surely, [there is] no spell against Jacob, nor any fortune-telling against Israel. According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What God has worked!


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Behold, the people shall rise up like a great lion, and lift up himself like a young lion. He shall not lie down until he eats [of] the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.


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But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?


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And Balak said to Balaam, Please, come. I will bring you into another place. Perhaps it will please God that you will curse them for me from there.


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And Balaam said to Balak, Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams here for me.


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And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. And whatever He reveals to me I will tell you. And he went to a high place.


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And God met Balaam. And he said to Him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon the altar a bull and a ram.


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And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.


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For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him. Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be counted among the nations.


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And Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, and he did not go, as at other times, to seek for secret arts, but he set his face toward the wilderness.


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And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam. And he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have kept on blessing these three times.


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Therefore now flee to your place. I thought to lift you up to great honor, but lo, the LORD has kept you back from honor.


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If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the mouth of the LORD, to do good or bad of my own mind. What the LORD said, that I will speak.


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And now, behold, I go to my people. Come! I will make known to you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.


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And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes [are] open has said;


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he has said, he who heard the words of God and knew the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down but having his eyes open;


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I shall see him, but not now. I shall behold him, but not near. There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel. and shall strike the corners of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.


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And Edom shall be a possession. Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies. And Israel shall do valiantly.


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And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel pitched, according to their tribes. And the Spirit of God came upon him.


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And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable and said, Amalek [was] the first of the nations. But his latter end [is] to destruction.


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And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable and said, Strong is your dwelling-place, and you put your nest in a rock.


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And ships shall come from the coast of Cyprus, and shall afflict Assyria and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish forever.


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And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said;


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he has said; he who heard the words of God, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling down but having his eyes open;


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They are spread forth like the valleys, like gardens by the river's side, like the trees of aloes which the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.


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He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters. And his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.


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God brought him forth out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of an ox. He shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through [with] his arrows.


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He crouched. He lay down as a lion, and as a great lion. Who shall stir him up? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.


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Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the sons of Israel while he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.


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And he shall have it, and his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the sons of Israel.


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And the name of the Israelite who was killed, he who was struck with the woman of Midian, [was] Zimri, the son of Salu, ruler of a chief house of the Simeonites.


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And the Midianite woman's name who was killed [was] Cosbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.


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For they trouble you with their lies, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi the daughter of a ruler of Midian, their sister, who was stricken in the day of the plague because of Peor.


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And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to their gods.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.


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And behold! One of the sons of Israel came and brought to his brothers a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses, and before all the congregation of the sons of Israel, who [were] weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw [it], he rose up from among the congregation and took a spear in his hand.


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And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman, through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel.


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And it happened after the plague, the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saying,


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And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men. And they became a sign.


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The sons of Simeon according to their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;


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The sons of Gad according to their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;


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these [are] the families of the sons of Gad by their numbered ones, forty thousand and five hundred.


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Take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.


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And the sons of Judah according to their families: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahite.


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And the sons of Pharez: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites;


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The sons of Issachar, according to their families: [of] Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Pua, the family of the Punites;


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The sons of Zebulun according to their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites--


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The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites. And Machir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites;


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab beside Jordan [at] Jericho, saying,


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these [are] the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites.


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And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelophehad: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah--


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These [are] the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.


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these [are] the families of the sons of Ephraim by their numbered ones, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These [are] the sons of Joseph according to their families.


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The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;


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[Count] the people from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the sons of Israel, who came out of the land of Egypt.


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And the sons of Bela [were] Ard and Naaman. [Of Ard], the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites;


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these [are] the sons of Benjamin according to their families, and their numbered ones, forty-five thousand, six hundred.


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These [are] the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shuham, the families of the Shuhamites. These [are] the families of Dan according to their families.


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[Of] the sons of Asher according to their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites; of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.


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Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.


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These [are] the families of the sons of Asher by their numbered ones, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.


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The sons of Naphtali according to their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;


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Reuben, the first-born of Israel, the sons of Reuben, of Hanoch who [came] of the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu the family of the Palluites;


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These [are] the families of Naphtali according to their families, by their numbered ones, forty-five thousand, four hundred.


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These [were] the numbered ones of the sons of Israel, six hundred one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.


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To many you shall give the more inheritance, and to few you shall give the less inheritance; each by the mouth of his numbered ones shall be given his inheritance.


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But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.


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And these [are] the numbered ones of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.


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These [are] the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Korah fathered Amram.


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And the name of Amram's wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom one bore to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.


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And their numbered ones, twenty-three thousand, all males from a month old and upward. For they were not numbered among the sons of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the sons of Israel.


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These [are] those numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab beside Jordan [at] Jericho.


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But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.


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For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.


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these [are] the families of the Reubenites. And their numbered ones [were] forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.


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And the sons of Eliab, Nemuel, and Dathan and Abiram. This [is] that Dathan and Abiram [who were] famous in the congregation, who fought against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they fought against the LORD.


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And the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph came. And these [are] the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.


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And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest relative, of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be to the sons of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Get up into this Mount Abarim and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.


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And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people as Aaron your brother was gathered.


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For you rebelled against My command in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the water before their eyes; they [were] the Waters of Strife in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.


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who may go out before them, and who may go in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom [is] the Spirit, and lay your hand upon him.


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And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation, and give him a charge in their sight.


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And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest, and before the rulers and all the congregation, [by] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,


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And you shall put of your honor on him, so that all the congregation of the sons of Israel may be obedient.


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And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask for him according to the judgment of Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, he and all the sons of Israel with him, even all the congregation.


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And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. And he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.


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And he laid his hands upon him and gave him a charge, even as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.


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Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of those who gathered themselves against the LORD in the company of Korah, but died in his own sin, and had no sons.


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Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he has no son? Therefore give us a possession among the brothers of our father.


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The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers. And you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.


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And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.


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[this is] the burnt offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.


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And in the beginning of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot,


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and three tenth parts of flour [for] a food offering, mixed with oil, for one bull, and two-tenth parts of flour [for] a food offering, mixed with oil, for one ram;


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and a separate tenth part of flour mixed with oil [for] a food offering to one lamb, for a burnt offering of a sweet savor, a fire offering to the LORD.


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And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine to a bull, and the third of a hin to a ram, and a fourth a hin to a lamb. This [is] the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.


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And one kid of the goats for a sin offering to the LORD shall be prepared, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And in the fifteenth day of this month [is] the feast. Seven days shall unleavened [bread] be eaten.


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But you shall offer a fire offering [for] a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year. They shall be to you without blemish.


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Command the sons of Israel, and say to them, My offering [and] My bread for My sacrifices made by fire, a sweet savor to Me, you shall be careful to offer to Me in their due season.


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And their food offering [shall be] of flour mixed with oil: three tenth parts you shall prepare for a bull, and two tenth parts for a ram.


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You shall prepare these besides the burnt offering in the morning, which [is] for a continual burnt offering.


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In this way you shall offer daily, seven days, the bread of the fire offering, a sweet savor to the LORD. It shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.


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And in the day of the first-fruits, when you bring a new food offering to the LORD in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no laboring work.


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And you shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savor to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs of the first year


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and their food offering of flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts to one bull, two tenth parts to one ram,


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And you shall say to them, This [is] the fire offering which you shall offer to the LORD: two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, a continual burnt offering.


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You shall offer [them] besides the continual burnt offering and its food offering and their drink offerings. They shall be to you without blemish.


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The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer between the evenings.


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[It is] a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a sweet savor, a fire offering to the LORD,


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and its drink offering [shall be] the fourth of a hin for the one lamb. Pour a drink offering [of] strong drink to the LORD in the holy place.


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And the other lamb you shall offer between the evenings, even as the food offering of the morning, and as its drink offering, you shall offer [it], a fire offering, a sweet savor to the LORD.


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And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two-tenth parts of flour [for] a food offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering;


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And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no laboring work. It is a day of blowing the trumpets to you.


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one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and the food offering of it, and their drink offerings.


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And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no laboring work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.


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And you shall offer a burnt offering, a fire offering, of a sweet savor to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year. They shall be without blemish.


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And their food offering [shall be] flour, mixed with oil, three tenth parts to every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts to each ram of the two rams,


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and one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offering.


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And on the second day [you shall offer] twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot;


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and their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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and one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offerings.


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And you shall prepare a burnt offering for a sweet savor to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish.


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And their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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and one goat [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its food offering and its drink offering.


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Their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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And their food offering [shall be] flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for a bull, two tenth parts for a ram,


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and their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, according to the law;


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and one goat [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offering.


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But you shall offer a burnt offering, a fire offering of a sweet savor to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish;


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their food offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the law;


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and one goat [for] a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its food offering and its drink offering.


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You shall prepare these to the LORD in your appointed seasons, besides your vows and your free-will offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your food offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.


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besides the burnt offering of the month, and its food offering, and the daily burnt offering, and its food offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet savor, a fire offering to the LORD.


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And you shall have a holy convocation on the tenth of this seventh month. And you shall afflict your souls. You shall not do any work.


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But you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD [for] a sweet savor: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year. They shall be to you without blemish.


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And their food offering [shall be] flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts to a bull, two tenth parts to one ram,


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These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day the LORD spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.


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And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of all the first-born that open the womb among the sons of Israel. Therefore the Levites shall be Mine.


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Because all the first-born [are] Mine. On the day that I struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt I set apart to Myself all the first-born in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be Mine. I [am] the LORD.


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Number the sons of Levi according to their fathers' house, by their families. You shall number them, every male from a month old and upward.


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And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These [were] the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.


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Of Gershon [was] the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites. These [are] the families of the Gershonites.


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Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward; those numbered of them [were] seven thousand, five hundred.


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And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation [shall be] the tabernacle, and the tent, and its covering, and the veil for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,


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and the hangings of the court, and the veil for the door of the court which [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar all around, and the cords of it, for all the service of it.


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And of Kohath [was] the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These were the families of the Kohathites.


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In number, all the males, from a month old and upward, [were] eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.


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These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he set apart to minister as priests.


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And the ruler of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.


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And their charge [shall be] the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the veil, and all the service of it.


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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [shall be] chief over the leaders of the Levites, having the oversight of the ones who keep the charge of the sanctuary.


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Of Merari [was] the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These [are] the families of Merari.


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And those numbered of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, [were] six thousand and two hundred.


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And the ruler of the house of the father of the families of Merari [was] Zuriel the son of Abihail. They pitched on the side of the tabernacle northward.


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And the office and charge of the sons of Merari [were] the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and its vessels, and all its service,


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And those who camp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, [shall be] Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel. And the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.


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All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, [were] twenty-two thousand.


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And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai. And they had no sons. And Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priest in the presence of Aaron their father.


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And the LORD said to Moses, Number all the first-born of the males of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.


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You shall take the Levites for Me, I [am] the LORD, in the place of all the first-born among the sons of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the sons of Israel.


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And all the first-born males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those numbered of them, [were] twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.


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Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. And the Levites shall be Mine. I [am] the LORD.


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And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and seventy-three of the first-born of the sons of Israel, who are more than the Levites,


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you shall even take five shekels each by the head, according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take. (The shekel [is] twenty gerahs.)


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And Moses took the redemption silver from those who were over and above the ones who were redeemed by the Levites.


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He took the silver from the first-born of the sons of Israel: one thousand three hundred and sixty-five [shekels], according to the shekel of the sanctuary.


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And Moses gave the silver from those who were redeemed to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, so that they may minister to him.


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And they shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.


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And they shall keep all the vessels of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.


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And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his son. They [are] wholly given to him out of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the sons of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD has commanded:


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and [if] her husband heard and is silent as to her, and did not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.


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But if her husband has certainly broken them on the day he heard, whatever comes out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has broken them. And the LORD shall forgive her.


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Every vow and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may break it.


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But [if] her husband is altogether silent as to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her bonds which [are] on her. He confirms them, because he was silent as to her in the day that he heard.


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These [are] the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter in her youth in her father's house.


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If a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that comes out of his mouth.


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[If] a woman also vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, [being] in her father's house in her youth,


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and [if] her father hears her vow and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and [if] her father is silent as to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.


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But [if] her father does not allow her in the day that he hears, not any of her vows or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. And the LORD shall forgive her because her father did not allow her.


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And [if] she had a husband when she vowed, or if she said anything rash out of her lips with which she bound her soul,


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and [if] her husband heard and is silent as to her in the day that he heard, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she bound her soul shall stand.


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But [if] her husband did not allow her on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul, of no effect. And the LORD shall forgive her.


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But every vow of a widow and of her who is divorced, all which she has bound on her soul shall stand against her.


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And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which [are] beside Jordan, [at] Jericho.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the rulers of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp.


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And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who came from the battle.


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Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit sin against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and the plague was on the congregation of the LORD.


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And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him.


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And stay outside the camp seven days. Whosoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any dead one, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.


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And purify all clothing, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood.


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And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to battle, This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses.


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everything that can stand the fire, you shall make go through the fire, and it shall be clean. Only it shall be purified with the water of separation. And all that cannot stand the fire you shall make go through the water.


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And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean, and afterwards you shall come into the camp.


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Count the prey that was taken of man and of animal, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the congregation.


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And divide the prey into two parts: between those skilled in the battle, who went out to war, and between all the congregation.


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And levy a tax for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, of the persons and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the flock.


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And Moses spoke to the people saying, Arm some of yourselves to the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD on Midian.


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And from the sons of Israel's half you shall take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, of the flocks, of all kinds of animals, and give them to the Levites who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.


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And the prize, the rest of the spoil which the men of war had captured, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,


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And the half, the portion of those who went out to war, the number of the flock [was] three hundred thirty-seven thousand, five hundred;


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And Moses gave the tax, the LORD's heave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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even of the sons of Israel's half, Moses took one portion in fifty, of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, --even as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And the officers who [were] over thousands of the army, over the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came near Moses.


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And they said to Moses, Your servants have counted the men of war who [are] under our charge, and there is not one man of us lacking.


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So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of [every] tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.


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And we bring an offering for the LORD, what every man has found, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.


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And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the commanders of thousands, and of the commanders of hundreds, was sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels.


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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, [for] a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD.


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And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of [every] tribe. He sent them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments and the trumpets to blow in his hand.


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And [they] warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses. And [they] killed all the males.


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And they killed the kings of Midian, besides the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.


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And the sons of Israel took [all] the women of Midian captive, and their little ones, and the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.


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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle. And when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, behold, the place [was] a place for cattle.


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Surely, none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and up, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not fully followed Me,


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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have fully followed the LORD.


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And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation which had done evil in the sight of the LORD was destroyed.


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And behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.


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For if you turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness. And you shall destroy all this people.


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And they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones,


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but we ourselves will go ready armed before the sons of Israel until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fenced cities because of those who live in the land.


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For we will not inherit with them on the other side of Jordan, or forward, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of Jordan, eastward.


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And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to the rulers of the congregation, saying,


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and all of you will go armed over Jordan before the LORD until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,


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and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterwards you shall return and be guiltless before the LORD and before Israel. And this land shall be your possession before the LORD.


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But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD. And be sure your sin will find you out.


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Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do that which has come out of your mouth.


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And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.


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But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says.


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So regarding them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.


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And Moses said to them, If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben will go with you over Jordan, each armed to battle before the LORD, and the land shall be humbled before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.


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Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,


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But if they will not go over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.


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And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD has said to your servants, so we will do.


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We will go over armed before the LORD [into] the land of Canaan, so that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan [may be] ours.


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And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities in the borders, the cities of the land all around.


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and Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names being changed) and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.


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And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and put out the Amorite who [was] in it.


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the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, [is] a land for cattle, and your servants [have] cattle.


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And, they said, If we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not bring us over Jordan.


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And Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here?


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And why do you break the heart of the sons of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?


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For when they went up into the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they broke the hearts of the sons of Israel, so that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.


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These [are] the journeys of the sons of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.


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And they pulled up from Alush and pitched at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.


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And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the command of the LORD. And these [are] their journeys according to their starting-places.


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And they pulled up from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the next day after the Passover the sons of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.


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And Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come up out of the land of Egypt, in the first of the fifth month.


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For the Egyptians buried all [their] first-born whom the LORD had stricken among them. The LORD also executed judgments upon their gods.


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And King Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel.


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And they pulled up from the mountains of Abarim and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan [at] Jericho.


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And they pitched by Jordan, from The House of Deserts to The Meadow of Acacias in the plains of Moab.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan,


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then you shall drive out all those who live in the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images and pluck down all their high places.


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And you shall divide the land by lot by your families. And you shall give the more inheritance to the many; to the few you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls out to him; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.


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But if you will not drive out the people of the land from before you, then it will be, those of them whom you let remain [shall] be goads in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land in which you live.


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And they pulled up from Etham and turned again to Pihahiroth which [is] in front of Baal-zephon. And they pitched in front of Migdol.


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And they pulled up from before Pihahiroth and passed through the middle of the Sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.


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And they pulled up from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees. And they pitched there.


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And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the Sea of Chinnereth eastward.


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And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the end of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with the borders of it all around.


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And Moses commanded the sons of Israel saying, This [is] the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe.


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For the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the sons of Gad according to the house of their fathers. And half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.


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The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan [at] Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.


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These [are] the names of the men who shall divide the land to you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.


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Command the sons of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land of Canaan, this [is] the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its borders.


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These [are the ones] to whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance to the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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And your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the border of Edom, and your south border shall be the furthest coast of the Salt Sea eastward.


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And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and pass on to Zin. And its limit shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon.


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And the border shall turn from Azmon to the torrent of Egypt, and the end of it shall be at the sea.


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And [for] the western border, you shall even have the Great Sea for a border. This shall be your west border.


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From Mount Hor you shall [point] your border to the entrance of Hamath. And the end of the border shall be at Zedad.


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And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the end of it shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come over Jordan into the land of Canaan,


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then you shall choose cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the slayer who kills any person through error may flee there.


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And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer does not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.


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You shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan to be cities of refuge.


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These six cities shall be a refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger, and for anyone who stays among them, so that everyone who kills any person through error may flee there.


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And if he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he [is] a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.


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And if he strikes him by throwing a stone, with which he may die, and if he dies, he [is] a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.


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Or [if] he strikes him with a hand weapon of wood, with which he may die, and if he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.


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Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites, from the land of their possessions cities to live in. And you shall give to the Levites suburbs for the cities all around them.


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or in hatred strikes him with his hand so that he dies, he who struck [him] shall surely he put to death. He [is] a murderer. The revenger of blood will kill the murderer when he meets him.


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But if he thrusts him suddenly without hatred, or has thrown something on him without lying in wait,


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or with any stone with which a man may die if he does not see, and throws [it] upon him so that he dies, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm,


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then the congregation shall judge between the one who kills and the revenger of blood according to these judgments.


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And the congregation shall deliver the one who kills out of the hand of the revenger of blood. And the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he had fled. And he shall stay in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.


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But if the one who killed shall at any time come outside the border of the city of his refuge to which he had fled,


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and if the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and if the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,


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because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the one who killed shall return to the land of his possession.


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So these [things] shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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And they shall have the cities to live in. And their open lands shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their animals.


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Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses. But one witness shall not testify against any person [to cause him] to die.


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And you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who [is] guilty of death. But he shall surely be put to death.


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And you shall take no ransom [for him] who has fled to the city of his refuge, to return to live in the land until the death of the [high] priest.


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So you shall not defile the land in which you [are]. For blood defiles the land. And the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him that shed it.


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So do not defile the land which you shall inhabit, in which I dwell. For I the LORD dwell among the sons of Israel.


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And the open lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites [shall reach] from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits all around.


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And you shall measure from outside the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits. And the city [shall be] in the middle. This shall be to them the open land of the cities.


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And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites there [shall be] six cities for refuge, which you shall appoint for the manslayer, so that he may flee there. And you shall add forty-two cities to them.


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All the cities which you shall give to the Levites, forty-eight cities. You shall give them with their open land.


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And the cities which you shall give [shall be] of the possessions of the sons of Israel. You shall give many from those who have many. But from those who have few you shall give few. Everyone shall give of his cities to the Levites according to his inheritance which he inherits.


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And the chief fathers of the families of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses, and before the rulers, the chief fathers of the sons of Israel.


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For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, [were] married to their father's brothers' sons.


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They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.


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These [are] the commandments and the judgments which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab beside Jordan, at Jericho.


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And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel. And my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


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And [if] they are married to any of the sons of the tribes of the sons of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe to which they are received. So it shall be taken from the lot of our inheritance.


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And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel shall come, then their inheritance shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe into which they are received. So their inheritance shall be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.


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And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the LORD saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph has said well.


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This [is] the thing which the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best. Only they shall marry into the family of the tribe of their father.


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So the inheritance of the sons of Israel shall not be moved from tribe to tribe. For every one of the sons of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


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And every daughter that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel shall become a wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel may each one enjoy the inheritance of his fathers.


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And the inheritance shall not move from [one] tribe to another tribe. But every one of the tribes of the sons of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.


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And they shall put it and all the vessels of it inside a covering of dugong skins, and shall put [it] upon a bar.


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And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and they shall put the staves into it.


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And they shall take all the vessels of ministry with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put [them] in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of dugong skins, and shall put them on a bar.


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And they shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it: the fire-pans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar. And they shall spread upon it a covering of dugong skins, and put the staves into it.


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And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set forward, then after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it]. But they shall not touch any holy thing lest they die. These [are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [belongs] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily food offering, and the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, in the sanctuary and in its vessels.


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But do this to them, and they shall live and not die when they approach the Holy of Holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint each one of them to his service and to his burden.


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Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, according to their families, by their fathers' house,


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From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old you shall number them, all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, its covering, and the covering of the dugong skins that [is] above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,


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and the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which [is] by the tabernacle and by the altar all around, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them. So they shall serve.


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At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens and in all their service. And you shall appoint all their burdens to the ones in charge.


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This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation. And their charge [shall be] under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years, all that enter into the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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You shall number them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And this [is] the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation: the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,


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and the pillars of the court all around, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their vessels, and with all their service. And you shall count the vessels of the charge of their burden by name.


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This [is] the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.


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And Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites according to their families, and according to the house of their fathers.


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They numbered them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone that entered into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.


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These [were] the ones that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon throughout their families, and by their fathers' house,


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from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone that enters into the service for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,


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This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, the most holy [place].


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even those that were numbered of them by their families, by their fathers' house, were two thousand six hundred and thirty.


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These [are] the ones numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the command of the LORD.


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And those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by their fathers' house,


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These [are] those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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All those numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel numbered, according to their families and according to their fathers' house,


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from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone that came to do the service of the ministry and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,


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According to the command of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, everyone according to his service and according to his burden. So they were numbered by him as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And when the camp sets forth, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of testimony with it.


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And they shall put on it the covering of dugong skins, and shall spread over [it] a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in its staves.


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And they shall spread a cloth of blue upon the table of showbread, and put the dishes on it, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the drink offering, and covers to cover it with. And the continual bread shall be on it.


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And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet and cover it with a covering of dugong skins, and they shall put in its staves.


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And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its fire-pans, and all the oil vessels of it, with which they serve it.


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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray, and has committed a trespass against him,


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and a man lie with her carnally, and if it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and is kept hidden, and she is defiled, and [there is] no witness against her, neither is she taken in the act;


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and if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled-- or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, and she is not defiled--


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then the man shall bring his wife to the priest. And he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense on it, for it [ is] an offering of jealousy, a reminding offering, bringing iniquity to mind.


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And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel. And the priest shall take of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle and put [it] into the water.


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And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the reminding offering in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse.


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And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, you are free from this bitter water that causes the curse.


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Command the sons of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper and everyone that has an issue, and whoever is defiled by a dead body.


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But if you have gone aside, being under your husband, and if you are defiled and some man besides your husband has given his semen to you,


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then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing. And the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh to fall away and your belly to swell.


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And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels to make [your] belly swell and your thigh fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.


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And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water.


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And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse shall enter into her [and become] bitter.


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Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar.


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And the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as a memorial of it, and burn [it] upon the altar, and afterward [he] shall cause the woman to drink the water.


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And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall be, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her husband, the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and [become bitter]. And her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away. And the woman shall be a curse among her people.


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You shall put out both male and female. You shall put them outside the camp so that they do not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.


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Or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.


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And the sons of Israel did so, and put them out outside the camp. Even as the LORD spoke to Moses, so the sons of Israel did.


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Speak to the sons of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the LORD, and that person is guilty,


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then they shall confess their sin which they have done. And he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it one fifth of it, and give [it] to him against whom he has sinned.


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But if the man has no kinsman to whom he may make restitution for the guilt, the guilt which is restored [shall be] given to the LORD, to the priest, besides the ram of the atonement by which an atonement shall be made for him.


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And every offering of all the holy things of the sons of Israel which they shall bring to the priest, shall be his.


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And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, because he sinned by the dead, and shall make his head holy that same day.


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And he shall set apart to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a guilt offering. But the former days shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.


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And this [is] the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled. He shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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And he shall offer his offering to the LORD: one male lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,


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and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour, cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their food offerings and their drink offerings.


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And the priest shall bring [them] before the LORD and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.


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And he shall offer the ram [for] a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also his food offering and his drink offering.


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And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation and put [it] in the fire under the sacrifice of the peace offerings.


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And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put [them] on the hands of the Nazarite, after his separation has been shaved.


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Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man or woman shall separate in order to vow a vow of a Nazarite, in order to separate to the LORD,


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And the priest shall wave them [for] a wave offering before the LORD. This [is] holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder. And afterward the Nazarite may drink wine.


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This [is] the law of the Nazarite who has vowed his offering to the LORD for his separation, besides that which he is able to get. According to the vow which he vowed, so he must do according to the law of his separation.


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Speak to Aaron and to his sons saying, In this way you shall bless the sons of Israel, saying to them,


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he shall separate from wine and strong drink and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink; neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried.


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All the days of his Nazariteship he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from grape seeds even to a stem.


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All the days of his vow to separate, no razor shall come upon his head. Until all the days are fulfilled in which he separates to the LORD, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.


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He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to his God [is] upon his head.


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And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he has defiled the head of his consecration, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day he shall shave it.


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And it happened on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the vessels of it, both the altar and all its vessels, and had anointed them and sanctified them,


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And the rulers offered for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the rulers offered their offering before the altar.


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And the LORD said to Moses, They shall offer their offering, each ruler on his day, for the dedication of the altar.


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And he that offered his offering the first day [was] Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.


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And his offering [was] one silver dish, and its weight hundred and thirty [shekels]; one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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He offered [for] his offering one silver dish, and its weight a hundred thirty [shekels] according to the sanctuary shekel; one silver bowl [of] seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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and the rulers of Israel offered, the head men of their fathers' house, the rulers of the tribes; these [were] they who stood over the numbered ones.


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.


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His offering [was] one silver dish, its weight a hundred thirty [shekels] according to the sanctuary shekel; one silver basin [of] seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.


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And they brought their offerings before the LORD: six covered wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for two of the rulers, an ox for each one. And they brought them before the tabernacle.


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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His offering was one silver dish, its weight a hundred thirty [shekels] according to the sanctuary shekel; one silver basin [of] seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering Eliasaph the son of Reuel.


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Take [it] from them so that they may be used in doing the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. And you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.


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His offering [was] one silver dish, its weight a hundred thirty [shekels] according to the sanctuary shekel; one silver basin [of] seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering;


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And he gave four wagons and eight oxen to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.


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and for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year. This [was] the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.


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This [was] the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the rulers of Israel: twelve platters of silver, twelve silver basins, twelve golden pans.


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Each silver dish weighed a hundred and thirty [shekels], each basin seventy. All the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred [shekels], according to the sanctuary shekel.


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twelve golden pans, full of incense, ten [shekels] each, according to the sanctuary shekel. All the gold of the pans [was] a hundred and twenty [shekels].


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All the animals for the burnt offerings were twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their food offering. And the males of the goats for a sin offering twelve.


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And all the animals for the sacrifice of the peace offerings [were] twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This [was] the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.


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And when Moses had gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with Him, then he heard the voice of One speaking to him from the mercy-seat on the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubs. And He spoke to him.


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But to the sons of Kohath he did not give any, because the service of the sanctuary belonging to them [was that] which they should carry upon their shoulders.


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And you shall bring the Levites before the LORD. And the sons of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites.


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And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD [for] an offering of the sons of Israel, so that they may do the service of the LORD.


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And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bulls. And you shall offer the one [for] a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, to the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.


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And you shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them [for] an offering to the LORD.


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And after that the Levites shall go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. And you shall purify them and offer them [for] a wave offering.


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For they [are] wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel, instead of those that open every womb. The first-born of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them to Me.


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For all the first-born of the sons of Israel [are] Mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck every first-born in the land of Egypt I set them apart for Myself.


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And I have given the Levites [as] a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to do the service of the sons of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the sons of Israel, so that there may be no plague among the sons of Israel when the sons of Israel come near the sanctuary.


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Speak to Aaron, and say to him, When you bring the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.


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And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel did to the Levites according to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites. So the sons of Israel did to them.


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And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes. And Aaron offered them, an offering before the LORD. And Aaron made an atonement for them to purify them.


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And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron and before his sons. Even as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.


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This [is that] which [pertains] to the Levites. From twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.


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But they shall minister with their brothers in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge; only he shall not serve [at] a service. So you shall do to the Levites as to their duties.


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And this work of the lampstand [was of] beaten gold, to its base and to its blossoms; it was beaten work. According to the pattern which the LORD had showed Moses, so he made the lampstand.


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And in this way shall you do to them to purify them. Sprinkle water of sin-offering on them, and let them shave all their flesh and wash their clothes, and make themselves clean.


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Then let them take a young bull with its food offering, fine flour mixed with oil, and another young bull shall you take for a sin offering.


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And you shall bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation. And you shall gather the whole assembly of the sons of Israel together.


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And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean because of a dead body, or in a journey afar off, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.


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They shall keep it the fourteenth day of the second month at evening, eating it with unleavened cakes and bitter [herbs].


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They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any bone of it. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.


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But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a journey, and holds back from preparing the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because he did not bring the offering of the LORD in His appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.


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And if a stranger shall live among you, and prepares the Passover to the LORD, he shall do according to the ordinance of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and for him that was born in the land.


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And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was upon the tabernacle, looking like fire, until the morning.


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And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the sons of Israel pulled up [stakes]. And in the place where the cloud stayed, there the sons of Israel pitched their tents.


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At the command of the LORD the sons of Israel pulled up [stakes], and at the command of the LORD they pitched. As long as the cloud stayed upon the tabernacle they rested in camp.


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And when the cloud stayed long upon the tabernacle many days, then the sons of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not journey.


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And so when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle, according to the command of the LORD they remained in their tents, and according to the command of the LORD they pulled up [stakes].


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And so when the cloud stayed from evening to the morning, and the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they pulled up [stakes]. Whether by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they pulled up [stakes].


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Whether [it was] two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud stayed upon the tabernacle, remaining on it, the sons of Israel stayed in their tents and did not journey. But when it was taken up, they pulled up [stakes].


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At the command of the LORD they encamped, and at the command of the LORD they pulled up [stakes]. They kept the charge of the LORD at the command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.


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In the fourteenth day of this month, between the evenings, you shall keep it in its appointed time. You shall keep it according to all its statutes, and according to all the ceremonies of it.


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And they prepared the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so all the sons of Israel did.


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And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, so that they could not prepare the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.


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And those men said to him, We [are] defiled by the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in its appointed time among the sons of Israel?


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The Word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


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Pass over to them, O dweller of Shaphir, in nakedness of shame. The dweller of Zaanan has not gone out; the mourning of Beth-ezel shall take from you his standing.


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For be grieved for good, the dweller of Maroth, for evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.


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O inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the stallion; she [is] the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for the sins of Israel were found in you.


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Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib [are] for a lying thing to the kings of Israel.


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Make yourself bald, and cut off [your hair] for the sons of your delight; make your baldness large like the eagle; for they go into exile from you.


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Hear, all you people; listen, O earth, and its fullness. And let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.


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For behold, the LORD [is] coming out of His place, and will come down and walk on the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains shall melt under Him, and the valleys shall tear themselves, as wax before the fire, and as waters poured down a steep place.


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All this [is] for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [Is it] not Samaria? And what [are] the high places of Judah? [Are they] not Jerusalem?


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And I will make Samaria into ruins of the field, planting places for a vineyard; and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and I will uncover her foundations.


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And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her gifts shall be burned with the fire, and I will destroy all its idols. For she gathered it from the reward of a harlot, and they shall return to the reward of a harlot.


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Therefore I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like jackals, mourn like the daughters of an ostrich.


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For her wounds [are] not curable; for it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of My people, to Jerusalem.


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Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.


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Arise and depart! For this [is] not [your] rest, because of destroying uncleanness, even a grievous destruction.


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If a man walks with wind and lies falsely, saying, I will drop [words] to you for wine and for strong drink, he shall even be a dropper [of words] for this people.


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I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like the sheep of Bozrah, like the flock in the midst of their fold. They shall be in commotion because of men.


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The breaker has come up before them; they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and have gone out of it. And their king shall pass before them, and the LORD at the head of them.


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And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.


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So the LORD says this: Behold, against this family I [am] plotting an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; nor shall you go proudly, but it [is] an evil time.


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In that day one shall take up a parable against you and mourn a mourning of mournings, saying, We shall be completely laid waste. He has exchanged the share of my people. How He has removed [it] from me! To the apostate He has divided our fields.


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Do not drop [words] as they drop! They shall not drop [words] about these; they shall not draw back reproaches.


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House of Jacob, [it is] said, The Spirit of the LORD is limited, if these [are] His doings. Do not My words do good to him who walks uprightly?


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Even yesterday, My people has risen up like an enemy; you strip off a cloak along with an outer robe, from those who pass by trustingly, those returning [from] war.


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You have thrown the wives of My people out from the house of her delight; from their children you have taken away My majesty forever.


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And I said, Please hear, O heads of Jacob and magistrates of the house of Israel. [Is it] not for you to know justice?


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Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on the LORD and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? No evil can come on us!


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Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house into high places of the forest.


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You who hate the good and love the evil; who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones;


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who also eat the flesh of My people, and strip their skin off them. And they break their bones and chop them in pieces, like that in the pot, like those in the middle of the kettle.


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Then they shall cry to the LORD, but He will not answer them. He will even hide His face from them at that time, as they have done evil in their doings.


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So says the LORD concerning the prophets who make My people err, who bite with their teeth and cry, Peace! And whoever does not give for their mouth, they even sanctify a war against him.


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Therefore a night shall be to you [without] vision; and darkness [without] divining. And the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.


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And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners ashamed; yea, they shall all cover their mustache, for [there is] no answer [from] God.


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But I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and justice, and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.


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Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity.


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But it shall be in the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it.


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Be in pain and deliver, daughter of Zion, like one giving birth. For now you shall go out from the city, and you shall dwell in the field; and you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be snatched back; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.


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Now also many nations are gathered against you, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion.


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But they do not know the plans of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like the sheaf to the floor.


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Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; and you shall crush many peoples. And I will give their gain to the LORD, and their wealth to the Lord of the all the earth.


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And many nations shall come and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths; for the law shall go forth out of Zion, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.


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And He shall judge between many peoples, and will decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, And they shall not still learn war.


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But they shall sit each one under his vine and under his fig tree; and there shall be no trembling; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken,


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For all peoples will walk, [each] one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.


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In that day, says the LORD, I will gather the lame, and I will gather the banished, and the one I have afflicted.


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And I will make the lame into a remnant, and her who was cast off a strong nation; and the LORD shall reign over them in Mount Zion from now on, even forever.


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And you, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it shall happen. And rulers, the chief ones, shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have taken you like one giving birth.


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Now gather yourself in troops, daughter of a troop; one sets a siege against us; they shall strike the Judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.


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And it shall be in that day, says the LORD, I will cut off your horses out of your midst, and I will destroy your chariots.


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I will also cut off your graven images, and your pillars out of the midst of you; and you shall never again worship the work of your hands.


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And you, Bethlehem Ephratah, you being least among the thousands of Judah, out of you He shall come forth to Me, to become Ruler in Israel, He whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from the days of eternity.


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Therefore He will give them over until the time the one giving birth has given birth; then the rest of His brothers shall return to the sons of Israel.


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And He shall stand and feed in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah His God. And they shall sit, for now He shall be great to the ends of the earth.


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And this [One] shall be peace. When Assyria shall come into our land; and when he shall walk in our palaces, then we shall raise against him seven shepherds and eight anointed ones from men.


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And they shall mar the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at her own entrances. And He shall deliver us from Assyria when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our border.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as dew from the LORD, as showers on a blade of the grass, which does not wait for man, nor delay for the sons of men.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goes through, both tramples and tears in pieces. And there is none to snatch back.


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Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful?


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[For] its rich men are full of violence, and its people have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.


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You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down [shall be] in your midst. And you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver I will give up to the sword.


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You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.


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For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, so that I should make you a ruin and its people a hissing; therefore you shall bear the shame of My people.


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Mountains, hear the LORD's case, and the constant foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a quarrel with His people, and He will plead His case with Israel.


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For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of slaves; and I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.


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O My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab planned, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteousness acts of the LORD.


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With what shall I come before the LORD, [to] bow myself before God the Most High? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?


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Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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He has shown you, O man, what [is] good. And what does the LORD require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?


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The LORD's voice cries to the city, and in sound wisdom one will see Your name. Hear the rod and [Him] who has appointed it.


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Woe is me! For I am like the gatherings of summer fruits, like the grape-gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fruit.


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Then my enemy shall see it; and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is the LORD your God? My eyes shall behold her; now she shall be trampled like the mud of the streets.


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[In] that day he shall come even to you from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the siege even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain [to] mountain.


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Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in the woods, in the midst of Carmel; let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.


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The nations shall see and be ashamed at all their might; they shall lay their hand on [their] mouth; their ears shall be deaf.


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They shall lick the dust like a snake; they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth. They shall dread the LORD our God, and shall fear because of You.


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Who [is] a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights [in] mercy.


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He will turn again; He will have pity on us. He will trample our iniquities. Yea, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.


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The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother [with] a net.


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You will give faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.


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Both hands [are] on evil, to do [it] well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.


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The best of them [is] like a briar; the most upright [is sharper] than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchmen [and] your punishment comes; now their shame shall come.


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Put no trust in a friend; put no hope in a guide; keep the door of your mouth from her who lies [in] your bosom.


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For the son dishonors the father; the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own household.


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Rejoice not against me, my enemy; for [if] I fall, I shall arise; for [if] I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.


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I will bear the fury of the LORD, because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my cause and brings out judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.


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For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like stubble fully dry.


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So says the LORD: Though secure and likewise many, yet they shall be cut down, and he shall pass away. And though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.


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And the LORD has commanded concerning you, Not [one] of your name shall be sown any more; I will cut off the graven image and the molten image out of the house of your gods. I will make your grave; for you are despised.


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Behold upon the mountains the feet of Him who brings good news, making it heard, Peace! O Judah, keep your appointed feasts, fulfill your vows; for the wicked shall pass through you no more; he is completely cut off.


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God [is] jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges and is a possessor of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance against His foes, and He keeps [wrath] against His enemies.


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The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power. And He does not by any means acquit the guilty. The LORD [has] His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of His feet.


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He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon withers.


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The mountains quake from Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is lifted up from before Him; even the world and all who dwell in it.


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Who can stand before His fury? And who can stand up in the heat of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down because of Him.


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But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.


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What are you plotting against the LORD? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.


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The scattering one is coming up against your face. Guard the rampart. Watch the way, make your loins strong, firm up [your] power mightily.


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[She is] empty and void and waste; and the heart melts, and the knees knock, and trembling [is] on all the loins; and all their faces collect heat.


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Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, [and] the lion's cub, and no one made [them] afraid?


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The lion tears in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangles for his lionesses, and filled his holes [with] prey, and his dens with torn prey.


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Behold, I [am] against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more.


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For the LORD has turned away the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel. For the plunderers have plundered them, and have destroyed their vine branches.


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The shield of his mighty ones has become red; the mighty men [are] in scarlet; the chariots flame like iron torches in the day of his preparation. And the cypresses are made to quiver.


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The chariots race madly in the streets; they shall run to and fro in the open squares. Their appearance [is] like torches; they dart about like lightnings.


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He shall remember his nobles; they shall stumble in their walking; they shall make haste to its wall, and the covering shall be prepared.


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And she who stood firm is uncovered and caused to go away. And her slave women are moaning like the sound of doves, beating their breast.


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But Nineveh [is] like a pool of water from her days; yet they are fleeing. Halt! Halt! they cry, but none looks back.


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Seize the silver; seize the gold; for [there is] no end to the treasures; riches from all precious vessels.


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Yet she [went] into exile; she went into captivity, and her young children also were dashed to pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.


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All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first fruits; if they are shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.


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Behold, your people in your midst [are] women. The gates of your land shall surely be opened to your enemies; the fire shall devour your bars.


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Draw waters for the siege; fortify your strongholds; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make the brick mold strong.


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There fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust. Make yourself as many as the larvae, multiply yourself like the locusts.


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You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven; the locust larvae shall strip off and fly away.


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Your rulers [are] like the locusts, and your officials are a swarm of locusts that camp in the hedges in the cold day; the sun rises, and they flee, and the place where they [are] is not known.


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Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria. Your nobles are at rest; your people are scattered upon the mountains, and no one is gathering.


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There is no healing of your fracture; your wound is grievous; all who hear the news of you shall clap the hands over you; for upon whom has your wickedness not passed continually?


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The sound of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of a wheel, and of a galloping horse, and of a bounding chariot.


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The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the lightning of the spear. And many [are] slain, and [there are] a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses; they stumble on their dead bodies,


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because of the many harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries who sells nations by her harlotries, and families by her sorceries.


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Behold, I [am] against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will uncover your skirts upon your face. And I will cause the nations to see your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.


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And it shall be that all those who look upon you shall flee from you, and say, Nineveh is laid waste; who will weep for her? From where shall I seek comforters for you?


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Are you better than No Amon, that dwelt among the Nile branches, waters all around her, whose rampart [was] the sea, the waters her wall?


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And they shall scoff at the kings, and the rulers [shall] be a scorn to them. They shall laugh at every stronghold, for he shall heap up dust and capture it.


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Then he sweeps on [like] a wind, and he transgresses and is guilty, [crediting] his power to his god.


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[Are] You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have ordained them for judgment; and, my Rock, You have established them for correction.


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[You are] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look upon vexation. Why do You look upon those who deal deceitfully? Will you be silent when the wicked swallows [one] more righteous than he?


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He takes up all of them with the hook; he drags him with his net and gathers him with his seine; therefore he rejoices and exults.


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So he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his seine; because by them his portion [is] fat and his food rich.


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O LORD, until when shall I cry and You will not hear? I cry out to You [of] violence, and You do not save!


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Why do You show me evil, and You look on toil? For destruction and violence [are] before me; and there is strife, and contention rises up.


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Therefore the law has become helpless, and justice does not always go forth. For the wicked entraps the righteous; therefore justice goes forth, being perverted.


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Look among the nations, and behold and wonder marvelously; for [I] will work a work in your days [which] you will not believe, not even if it is declared to you.


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For lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess homes not their own.


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His horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar. They shall fly like the eagle hurrying to eat.


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All of him shall come for violence; the gathering of their faces [is] forward; and they gather captives like the sand.


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I will stand on my watch and set myself on the tower, and will watch to see what He will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.


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You have planned shame to your house, to make an end of many people, and are sinning [in] your soul.


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Behold, [is it] not for the LORD of hosts that the people labor only for fire; yea, the nations weary themselves only for vanity?


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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.


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Woe [to] him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring out your wineskin, and also making [him] drunk, that you may look on their nakedness!


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You are filled with shame instead of glory; drink also, and [be] seen as one uncircumcised! The cup of the LORD's right hand shall turn on you, and disgrace [shall be] your glory.


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For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the ruin of beasts shall terrify them because of the blood of man, and the violence of the land, the city, and all those dwelling in it.


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What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of lies? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make dumb idols?


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Woe [to] him who says to the wood. Awake! To a dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] overlaid [with] gold and silver, and no breath is in its midst.


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And the LORD answered me and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain on the tablets, that he who reads it may run.


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For the vision [is] still for an appointed time, but it [speaks] to the end, and it does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it; because it will surely come. It will not tarry.


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And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and [he is] not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he [is] like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.


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Shall not all these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases [what is] not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on himself?


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Shall not those who strike you rise up suddenly, and [those] who shake you awake, and you become a prize to them?


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Because you have stripped many nations, all the rest of the people shall strip you; because of men's blood, and the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell in it.


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Woe [to] him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!


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They saw You; mountains trembled. The storm of water passed over; the deep uttered its voice [and] lifted up its hands on high.


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The sun [and] moon stood still in their dwelling. At the light of Your arrows they go, and at the shining of Your gleaming spear.


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You went forth for the salvation of Your people, for salvation with Your anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked, to bare the foundation to the neck. Selah.


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You pierced the head of his warriors with his shafts; they storm out to scatter me; their rejoicing [is] to devour the meek in a secret place.


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I heard and my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself that I might rest in the day of trouble; to come up against the people; he cuts him off.


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Though the fig tree shall not blossom, and fruit is not on the vines; the labor of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food. The flock is cut off from the fold, and no herd [is] in the stalls;


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Jehovah the Lord [is] my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and He will make me to walk on my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.


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O LORD, I have heard Your report; I am afraid. O LORD, give new life [to] Your work in the midst of years; in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.


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God comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covers the heavens, and His praise fills the earth.


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And [His] brightness is as the light; rays from His hand [are] His, and there [was] a hiding of His strength.


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He stood and measured the earth; He looked and shook nations, and the everlasting mountains were shattered; the eternal hills bowed down. His ways [are] everlasting.


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Did the LORD burn against rivers? Or [was] Your anger against the rivers? Or Your wrath against the sea? [For] You ride on horses, Your chariots of salvation.


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You make Your bow naked, [according to] the oaths of the rods of [Your] word. Selah. You have cut through the earth [with] rivers.


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The Word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.


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And it shall be in that day, says the LORD, the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great crashing from the hills.


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Howl, people of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are cut down; all those who carry silver are cut off.


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And it shall be in that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled on their lees; who say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, nor will He do evil.


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And their goods shall become a prize and their houses a waste. They shall also build houses, but not live [in them], and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.


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The great day of the LORD [is] near; [it is] near and rushing greatly, the voice of the day of the LORD. The mighty man shall cry bitterly there.


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That day [is] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of waste and ruin, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,


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And I will bring distress on men, so that they shall walk with the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. And their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.


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Their silver nor their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy. For He shall make even a full, yea, a speedy end of all the dwellers in the land.


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I will snatch away man and beast; I will snatch away the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks, [even] the wicked; and I will cut off man from the face of the earth, says the LORD.


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I will also stretch out My hand on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of the idol-worshipers, with the priests,


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and those bowing to the host of heaven on the housetops, and those bowing, swearing to Jehovah, also swearing by Malcham;


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Be silent before the face of the Lord Jehovah, for the day of the LORD [is] at hand. For the LORD has appointed a sacrifice; He has consecrated His called ones.


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And it shall be in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, I will punish the rulers, and the king's sons, and all who are clothed [in] foreign clothing.


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And I will punish all those who leap on the threshold in that day, who fill their masters' houses [with] violence and deceit.


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They shall have this for their pride, because they have cursed and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.


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The LORD [will be] frightening to them; for He will make all the gods of the earth lean; [each] man from his place and all the coastlands of the nations shall bow to Him.


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And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desert and dry like a desert.


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And flocks shall lie down in her midst, all the beasts of a nation; both the pelican and the bittern shall roost in the capitals of its pillars; a voice shall sing at the window, ruin [shall be] at the doorsill, for he will bare the cedar-work.


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This [is] the rejoicing city, dwelling confidently, who says in her heart, I [am], and no other still [is]. How she has become a ruin, a resting-place for animals! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss; he shall wag his hand.


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before the birth of the decree, the day shall pass like the chaff; yet not before the hot anger of the LORD comes on you, yet not before the day of the LORD's anger comes on you.


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Seek the LORD, all the meek of the earth who have done His justice; seek righteousness; seek meekness. It may be you shall be hidden in the day of the LORD's anger.


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For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a ruin. They shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.


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Woe [to] the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The Word of the LORD is against you: Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will destroy you, so that no inhabitant [survives].


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And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed on them. In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening, for the LORD their God shall visit them and turn away their captivity.


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I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the curses of the sons of Ammon, [with] which they have cursed My people and have magnified [themselves] on their border.


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Therefore, [as] I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah; a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a ruin forever. The remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them.


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From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, My worshipers, the daughter of My scattered ones, shall bring My food offering.


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In that day you shall not be ashamed for all your doings [in] which you have transgressed against Me; for then I will withdraw from your midst those who rejoice in your pride, and you shall never again be proud in My holy mountain.


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I will also leave in your midst a poor and weak people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.


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The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity nor speak lies, and a deceitful tongue shall not be found in their mouth; for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.


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Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.


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The LORD has turned off your judgments; He has cast out your enemy. The king of Israel, the LORD, [is] in your midst; you shall not fear evil any more.


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The LORD your God [is] mighty in your midst; He will save, He will rejoice over you with joy; He is silent in His love; He rejoices over you with joyful shout.


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I will gather the afflicted ones from the appointed place; they were from you, a lifting up [of] reproach over her.


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Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you. And I will save her who is lame, and gather her who was driven out. And I will give them for a praise and for a name in all the land of their shame.


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She did not obey the voice; she did not receive correction. She trusted not in the LORD; she did not draw near to her God.


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In that time I will bring you, even in the time that I gather you; for I will give you for a name and for a praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, says the LORD.


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Her rulers within her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves. They do not gnaw bones for the morning.


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Her prophets are proud, men of deceit; her priests have defiled the sanctuary; they have done violence [to] the law.


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The just LORD [is] in her midst; He will not act perversely. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He fails not; but the perverse knows no shame.


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I have cut off the nations; their towers are ruined. I made their streets waste, so that none passes by; their cities are laid waste, without a man, there being no inhabitant.


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I said, Surely you will fear Me; you will receive instruction; then her dwelling shall not be cut off, all that I appointed for her. But they rose early, corrupting all their doings.


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Therefore wait for Me, says the LORD, for the day I rise up to the prey; for My judgment [is] to gather the nations, for Me to collect the kingdoms, to pour on them My fury, all My hot anger. For all the earth shall be burned up with the fire of My jealousy.


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For then I will [give] a clear lip to the people, to call all of them by the name of the LORD, to serve Him [with] one shoulder.


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high Priest, saying,


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Therefore the heavens above you have held back the dew, and the earth is held back [from] her produce.


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And I called for a drought in the land, and on the mountains, and on the grain, and on the new wine, and on the oil, and on that which the ground brings forth, and on men, and on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.


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Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared before the LORD.


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Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, spoke the message of the LORD to the people, saying, I [am] with you, says the LORD.


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And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,


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So says the LORD of hosts, saying: This people says, The time has not come, the time that Jehovah's house should be built.


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you have sown much and bring in little; [you] eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you dress, but no one is warm; and he who hires out himself hires himself for a bag full of holes.


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Go up the mountain and bring wood, and build this House; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says the LORD.


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You looked for much, and behold, little! And when you brought [it] home, then I blew on it. Why, says the LORD of hosts? Because of My House that is waste, and you, [each] man runs to his own house.


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In the seventh [month], in the twenty-first of the month, the Word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai, saying,


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In the twenty-fourth of the ninth [month], in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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If one carries holy flesh in the [skirt] of his garment, and touches his [skirt] to bread, or boiled food, or wine, or oil, or any food, will it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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Then Haggai said, If [one] unclean of body touches these, is it unclean? And the priests answered and said, It is unclean.


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And Haggai answered and said, So [is] this people, and so [is] this nation before Me, says the LORD. And so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there [is] unclean.


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And now, I ask you, set your heart on it; from this day and onward, before the placing of a stone on a stone in the temple of the LORD;


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from then onward, [one] came to a heap of twenty [measures], and there were [but] ten; one came to the wine vat to draw off fifty from the winepress, and there were [but] twenty.


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I struck you with blight and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not [turn] to Me, says the LORD.


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Now set your heart from this day and forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the LORD's temple was founded. Set your heart:


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[Is] the seed still in the barn? Yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, have not brought forth. From this day I will bless [you].


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Now speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,


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And I will overthrow the throne of the kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. And I will overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall come down, each one by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, says the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, My servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the LORD, and will make you like a signet; for I have chosen you, says the LORD of hosts.


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Who [is] left among you who saw this house in her first glory? And how do you see it now? When compared to it, [is it] not as nothing in your eyes?


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Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the LORD. And be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong all people of the land, says the LORD, and work; for I [am] with you, says the LORD of hosts


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[with the] Word who cut a covenant with you when you came out of Egypt, and My Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.


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For so says the LORD of hosts: Yet once, it [is] a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.


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And I will shake all the nations; and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.


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The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, says the LORD of hosts.


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of the LORD came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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And the Man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These [are] those whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.


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And they answered the Angel of the LORD who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth sits still and is at peace.


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Then the Angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah against which You have cursed these seventy years?


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So the angel who talked with me said to me, Cry out, saying, So says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion [with] a great jealousy.


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And with great anger I am angry at the nations at ease; [in] that I was but a little angry, and they gave help for evil.


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Therefore so says the LORD: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house shall be built in it, says the LORD of hosts. And a line shall be stretched over Jerusalem.


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Cry out again, saying, So says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall yet be spread abroad through good, and the LORD shall again overflow with goodness, and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.


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And I said to the angel who talked with me, What [are] these? And he answered me, These [are] the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.


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And I said, What [are] these coming to do? And He spoke, saying, These [are] the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head. But these have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who lifted up [their] horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.


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And you say to them, So says the LORD of hosts: Turn to Me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts.


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Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have proclaimed to them, saying, So says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil doings. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.


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But My words and My statutes which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they returned and said, As the LORD of hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so He has done with us.


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On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, it [is] the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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I watched by night. And behold! a Man riding on a red horse, and He stood among the myrtle trees in the ravine. And behind Him were red, sorrel and white horses.


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Then I said, O my lord, what [are] these? And the angel who talked with me said to me, I will show you what these [are].


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Ask rain from the LORD in the time of the latter rain. The LORD shall make storm clouds, and He gives them showers of rain, grass to everyone in the field.


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I will return them out of the land of Egypt, and I will gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; for [room] shall not be found for them.


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And he shall pass through the sea of distress, and shall strike the waves in the sea; and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up. And the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the scepter of Egypt shall move away.


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For the family idols speak iniquity, and the diviners have seen a lie and have told false dreams. They comfort in vain; therefore they wandered like a flock; they were troubled because there was no shepherd.


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My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats; for the LORD of hosts has visited His flock the house of Judah, and has made them as His beautiful horse in battle.


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Out of Him came the cornerstone; out of Him the nail; out of Him the battle bow; out of Him every oppressor together.


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And they shall be like mighty ones who trample the mud of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight because the LORD [is] with them, and they shall make the riders on horses ashamed.


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And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will return to save them; for I have pity on them. And they shall be as though I had not cast them off; for I [ am] the LORD their God, and I will answer them.


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And Ephraim shall be like a mighty one, and their heart shall rejoice as [by] wine. And their sons shall see and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.


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I will hiss for them and gather them; for I have redeemed them. And they shall be many as they were many.


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And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in the distances; and they shall live with their sons and return.


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And I took my staff Kindness, and broke it apart, to break My covenant which I had made with all the peoples.


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And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock who were watching Me knew that it [was] the Word of the LORD.


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And I said to them, If [it is] good, give My price; and if not, let it go. So they weighed My price thirty [pieces] of silver.


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And the LORD said to me, Throw it to the potter, the magnificent price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty [pieces] of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.


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Then I broke My other staff Union apart, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.


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For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those going to ruin, nor will he seek the young, nor will heal that which is broken, nor will he feed that which stands. But he shall eat the flesh of the fat and tear off their hoofs.


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Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword [shall be] on his arm and on his right eye; his arm shall be completely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.


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Howl, juniper; for the cedar has fallen; because the majestic [trees] are devastated. Howl, O oaks of Bashan; for the inaccessible forest has come down.


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There [is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is destroyed. There [is] a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is destroyed.


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those buying them kill them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed [be] the LORD, for I am rich; and their shepherds do not pity them.


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For I will never again pity the people of the land, says the LORD; but lo, I will make the men come out, each one into his neighbor's hand and into his king's hand. And they shall strike the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.


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And I fed the flock of slaughter, even the poor of the flock. And I took two staffs for myself; the one I called Kindness, and the other I called Union. And I fed the flock.


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I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also despised me.


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And I said, I will not feed you; that which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off. And those left, let them eat, each woman her neighbor's flesh.


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The burden of the Word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.


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And I will pour on the house of David, and on the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only [son], and shall be bitter over Him, as the bitterness over the first-born.


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In that day shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.


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And the land shall mourn, each family apart; the family of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart


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the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;


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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the peoples all around, and it shall also be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.


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And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples. All who lift it shall be slashed, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.


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In that day, says the LORD, I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness. And I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.


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And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The people of Jerusalem [shall be] my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.


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In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire among cut grain. And they shall devour all the peoples all around, on the right hand and on the left hand. And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her place, in Jerusalem.


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The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.


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In that day the LORD shall defend around the people of Jerusalem. And it will be, he who is feeble among them at that day [shall be] like David; and the house of David [shall be] like God, like the Angel of the LORD before them.


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In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.


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And it shall be in that day, says the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall be remembered no more. And also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.


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And it shall be when any shall yet prophesy, his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him then, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of the LORD. And his father and his mother who gave him birth shall thrust him through when he prophesies.


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And it shall be in that day, the prophets shall be ashamed, each one of his vision, when he prophesies. And they shall not wear a hairy garment to deceive.


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But he shall say, I [am] no prophet; I [am] a man, a tiller of the ground; for a man taught me to buy from my youth.


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And [one] shall say to him, What [are] these wounds in your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded [in] the house of those who love Me.


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Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My companion, says the LORD of hosts; strike the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.


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And it shall be in all the land, says the LORD, two parts in it shall be cut off [and] die; but the third shall be left in it.


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And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It [ is] My people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God.


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All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. And it shall rise and dwell in its place, from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate; to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses.


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And they shall dwell in it, and there shall never again be a shutting in, but Jerusalem shall dwell safely.


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And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes shall rot in their sockets. And their tongue shall rot in their mouth.


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And it shall be in that day a great panic of the LORD shall be among them And they shall each one lay hold of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.


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And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations all around shall be gathered, gold, and silver, and clothing in great abundance.


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And so shall be the plague of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the ass, and of all the beasts which shall be in these tents, like this plague.


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And it shall be, everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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And it shall be, whoever will not come up from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, even on them shall be no rain.


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And if the family of Egypt does not go up, nor come in, they shall have no rain, but the plague with which the LORD shall strike the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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This shall be Egypt's offense, and the offense of all the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.


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For I will gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women raped. And half of the city shall go into exile, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


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In that day there shall be on the bells of the horses, HOLY TO THE LORD. And the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.


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Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy to the LORD of hosts. And all those who sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them. And in that day there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts.


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And the LORD shall go out and fight against those nations, like the day He fought in the day of battle.


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And His feet shall stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall divide from its middle, from the east and to the west, a very great valley. And half of the mountain shall move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.


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And you shall flee to the valley of My mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with you.


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And it will be one day which shall be known to the LORD, neither day nor night; but it will happen that at evening time it shall be light.


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And it shall be in that day, living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them shall go toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. In summer and in winter it shall be.


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And the LORD shall be King over all the earth; in that day there shall be one LORD, and His name shall be one.


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Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion. For lo, I come, and I will dwell in your midst, says the LORD.


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And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be My people; and I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.


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Then I said, Where are you going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what [is] its breadth and what is its length.


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And he said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited, [as] towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in her midst.


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Ho! Ho! Flee then from the land of the north, says the LORD. For I have scattered you as the four winds of the heavens, says the LORD.


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For so says the LORD of hosts: He has sent me after glory, to the nations who stripped you; for he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.


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For behold, I will shake My hand over them, and they shall be a prize for their servants. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.


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And He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.


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In that day, says the LORD of hosts, you shall call, each man to his neighbor, to sit under the vine and under the fig tree.


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And the LORD said to Satan, May the LORD rebuke you, Satan! May even the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! [Is] this not a brand plucked out of the fire?


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And He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy clothes from him. And to him He said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with ceremonial robes.


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And I said, Let them set a clean turban on his head. And they set a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the Angel of the LORD stood by.


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So says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My charge, then you shall also judge My house, and shall also keep My courts, and I will give you places to walk among these who stand by.


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Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they [are] men of symbol.


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For behold! I will bring forth My Servant the Branch. For behold the stone that I have set before Joshua: On one stone [are] seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave its engraving, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.


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And the angel that talked with me came again and awakened me, as a man that is awakened out of his sleep.


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For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of the LORD which run to and fro through the whole earth.


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And I answered and said to him, What [are] these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?


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And I answered again and said to him, What [are] the two olive clusters beside the two golden pipes, emptying the golden [oil] from themselves?


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see, and behold, a lampstand, all of it gold, and a bowl on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps on its top;


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Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, Do you know what these [are]? And I said, No, my lord.


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Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This [is] the Word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.


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Who [are] you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel [you shall become] a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings, Grace! Grace to it!


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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish [it]; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.


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And he said to me, To build a house for it in the land of Shinar; and it shall be established and set there on its own base.


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And he said to me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying scroll; its length [is] twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.


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And he said to me, This [is] the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for from now on everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it.


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I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts; and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by My name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall devour it, and its timber and its stones.


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Then the angel who talked with me went forth and said to me, Now lift up your eyes and see what this [is] that goes forth.


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And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] the ephah that goes forth. And he said, This [is] their form in all the earth.


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And he said, This [is] wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah. And he cast the lead stone over its opening.


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And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, two women came out. And the wind [was] in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork. And they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.


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And I turned and lifted up my eyes and looked. And behold! Four chariots were coming from between two mountains. And the mountains [were] mountains of bronze.


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Take from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, from the exiles who have come from Babylon; and in that day you go and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah.


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And take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.


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And speak to him, saying, So speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the Man whose name [is] The BRANCH! And He shall spring up out of His place, and He shall build the temple of the LORD.


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Even He shall build the temple of the LORD; and He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on His throne. And He shall be a priest on His throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.


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And the crowns shall be for a memorial in the temple of the LORD to Helem and to Tobijah and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah.


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And the distant ones shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And [this] shall be, if you will carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God.


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and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot horses with dappled, strong [colors].


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And the angel answered and said to me, These [are] the four spirits of the heavens who go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.


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The black horses in it go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the dappled go forth to a south country.


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And the strong [colored ones] went forth and sought to go, so to walk to and fro through the earth. And he said, Go! Walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.


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And he cried to me and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these who go toward the north country have caused My Spirit to rest in the north country.


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And it happened in the fourth year of king Darius, the Word of the LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chislev.


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And do not crush the widow or the orphan, the alien or the poor. And do not devise evil in your heart, of a man [against] his brother.


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And they made their hearts adamant from hearing the law and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent through His Spirit, by the former prophets. And great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.


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And it will be, as He called, and they did not listen, so they called, and I did not listen, says the LORD of hosts.


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But I stormed them away on all the nations whom they did not know. And the land has been wasted behind them, from passing and from returning; for they made the land of desire a waste.


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And Sherezer and Regem-melech and his men had been sent [to] the house of God, to seek the favor of the LORD,


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to speak to the priests who [belong] to the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, consecrating myself, as I have done these many years?


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Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, [even] to Me?


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Are not [these] the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited, and prosperous, and her cities all around her, and the Negev and the Shephelah were inhabited?


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So speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Judge true judgment, and practice kindness and pity, [each] man to his brother.


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For before these days there was no payment for man, nor was there payment for animal; and there was no peace to him from the adversary who went out or came in. For I sent every man, a man against his neighbor.


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But now I [will] not [be] to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says the LORD of hosts.


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For the seed [shall be] blessed; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.


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And it will be, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, but let your hands be strong.


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For so says the LORD of hosts: As I thought to punish you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, says the LORD of hosts, and I did not repent;


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These [are] the things that you shall do. [Each] man speak the truth to his neighbor. Judge [with] truth and justice for peace in your gates.


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And let each devise no evil in your heart [against] his neighbor; and love no false oath. For all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.


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So says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.


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So says the LORD of hosts: I was jealous for Zion [with] great jealousy, and I was jealous for her [with] great fury.


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and the residents of one shall go to another, saying, Let us go at once to seek favor of the face of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will go also.


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And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to seek the favor of the face of the LORD.


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So says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men, out of all languages of the nations, shall take hold, and will seize the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.


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So says the LORD: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.


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So says the LORD of hosts: There shall yet be old men and old women living in the streets of Jerusalem, and [each] man [with] his staff in his hand because of their many days.


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So says the LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be marvelous in My eyes, says the LORD of hosts?


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So says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will save My people from the east country, and from the land of the setting sun.


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And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.


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So says the LORD of hosts: Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, that in the day the house of the LORD of hosts is laid, the temple is to be built.


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The burden of the Word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach, and its resting-place, Damascus (when the eye of man, and all the tribes of Israel, [shall be] toward the LORD);


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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem. And the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall speak peace to the nations; and His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.


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You also, by the blood of Your covenant I have freed Your prisoners out of the pit in which is no water.


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For I have bent Judah for me [as] a bow; I filled it with Ephraim, and I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you as the sword of a mighty man.


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And the LORD shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go forth like the lightning; and the Lord GOD shall blow the ram's horn, and shall go out with the windstorms of the south.


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The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour and trample the slingstones. And they shall drink and be boisterous, as through wine. And they shall be filled like a bowl, and like the corners of the altar.


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And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of His people; for [they are as] stones of a crown, lifted up as a banner over His land.


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For how great [is] its goodness and how great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.


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And Tyre shall build herself a stronghold, and shall heap up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets;


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behold, the Lord will cast her out, and He will strike her wealth in the sea, and she shall be burned up with fire.


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Ashkelon shall see and fear; Gaza also shall writhe in great pain; and Ekron shall be ashamed for her hope. And the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.


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And I will take away his bloods out of his mouth, and his idolatries from between his teeth. But the remnant, even he, [shall be] for our God. And he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron like a Jebusite.


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And I will camp around My house because of an army, because of him who passed by, and because of him who returns. And no tyrant shall pass through them any more. For now I have seen with My eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King comes to you. He is righteous and victorious, meek and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the son of an ass.


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Who [is] even among you who will shut the doors, and you not kindle [fire on] My altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts. I will not be pleased with an offering from you.


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For from the rising of the sun even to its going in, My name shall be great among the nations; and everywhere incense shall be offered to My name, and a pure food offering. For My name [shall be] great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.


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But you are profaning it when you say, The table of the LORD, it [is] polluted; and its fruit, His food, [is] to be despised.


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You also said, Behold, what a weariness [it is]! And you have puffed at it, says the LORD of hosts. And you bring plunder, and the lame, and the sick, and you bring the food offering. Should I accept it from your hand, says the LORD?


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But cursed [be] a deceiver; and there is in his flock a male, yet he vows it, but sacrifices to the LORD a blemished [one]. For I [am] a great king, says the LORD of hosts, and My name [is] feared among the nations.


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I have loved you, says the LORD. But you say, In what have You loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? says the LORD; yet I loved Jacob,


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and I hated Esau and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance [to be] for the jackals of the wilderness.


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If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places. So says the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people [with] whom the LORD [is] indignant forever.


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A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I [am] a father, where is My honor? And if I [am] a master, where is My fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. And you say, In what way have we despised Your name?


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You offer defiled bread upon My altar; and you say, In what way have we defiled You? In your saying, The table of the LORD, it [is] a thing to be despised.


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And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, [is it] not evil? Bring it now to your governor. Will he accept you, or lift up your face, says the LORD of hosts?


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And now entreat the face of God, that He favor us. This has been by your hands, will He lift up your faces, says the LORD of hosts?


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Is there not one Father to us all? Has not one God created us? Why do we act deceitfully, each man with his brother, to profane the covenant of our fathers.


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Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy [place] of the LORD, which He loves, and [has] married the daughter of a foreign god.


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The LORD will cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does it; stirring and answering; or offering a food offering to the LORD of hosts.


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And this [is] a second [thing] you have done, covering the altar of the LORD [with] tears, weeping, and groaning, yet not facing toward the food offering, and taking it [with] delight from your hand.


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Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she [is] your companion and your covenant wife.


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And did He not make [you] one? Yet the vestige of the Spirit [is in] him. And what [of] the one? He was seeking a godly seed. Then guard your spirit, and do not act treacherously with the wife of your youth.


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The LORD, the God of Israel, says He hates sending away; and to cover [with] violence on his garment, says the LORD of hosts. Then guard your spirit, and do not act treacherously.


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You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, In what have we wearied Him? When you say, Every evildoer [is] good in the eyes of the LORD, and He delights in them; or, Where [is] the God of justice?


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If you will not hear, and if you will not set [it] on your heart to give glory to My name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set [it] on [your] heart.


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Behold, I [am] rebuking your seed; and I will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your appointed feasts. And one shall lift you up to it.


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And you shall know that I have sent this command to you, to be My covenant with Levi, says the LORD of hosts.


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My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him [for] fear; and he feared Me, and he is awed before My name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and turned away many from iniquity.


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For the priest's lips should guard knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.


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But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.


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Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but [are] lifting up faces in the law.


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Behold, I will send My messenger, and He will clear the way before Me. And the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Angel of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says the LORD of hosts.


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Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now with this, says the LORD of hosts, to see if I will not open the windows of Heaven for you, and pour out a blessing for you, until there is] not enough room.


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And I will rebuke your devourer, and he shall not decay the fruit of your ground against you; nor shall your vine miscarry against you in the field, says the LORD of hosts.


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Your words have been strong against Me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken against You?


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You have said, It [is] vain to serve God; and, What profit [is it] that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before the LORD of hosts?


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And now we [are] calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.


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Then those fearing the LORD spoke together, [each] man to his neighbor. And the LORD listened and heard. And a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared the LORD, and for those esteeming His name.


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And they shall be Mine, says the LORD of hosts, for the day that I will make up [My] treasure. And I will pity them as a man has pity on his son who serves him.


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Then you shall again see the [difference] between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God, and him who does not serve Him.


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But who can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.


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And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may be offerers of a food offering in righteousness to the LORD.


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Then the food offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the LORD, as in the days of old and as in former years.


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And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says the LORD of hosts.


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From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept [them]. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say. In what way shall we return?


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Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, In what have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering!


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For behold, the day is coming, burning like a fire pot; and all the proud, and every doer of wickedness, shall be chaff. And the coming day will set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, which will not leave root or branches to them.


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But to you who fear My name, the Sun of Righteousness shall arise, and healing will be on His wings. And you shall go out and frisk like calves of the stall.


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And you shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day which I [am] preparing, says the LORD of hosts.


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Remember the law of Moses My servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and judgments.


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Behold, I [am] sending you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.


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And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, that I not come and strike the earth [with] utter destruction.


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And after the carrying away to Babylon, Jehoiachin fathered Shealtiel, and Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel.


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And Jacob fathered Joseph, the husband [to be] of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.


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So all the generations from Abraham to David [are] fourteen generations. And from David until the carrying away into Babylon, fourteen generations. And from the carrying away into Babylon until Christ, fourteen generations.


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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was this way (for His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph) before they came together, she was found to be with child by [the] Holy Spirit.


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But Joseph, her husband [to be], being just, and not willing to make her a public example, he purposed to put her away secretly.


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And as he thought upon these things, behold, the angel of [the] Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take to you Mary [as] your wife. For that in her is fathered of [the] Holy Spirit.


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And she shall bear a son, and you shall call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.


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Now all this happened so that might be fulfilled that which was] spoken of the LORD by the prophet, saying,


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Behold, the virgin shall conceive in [her] womb, and will bear a son. And they will call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.


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And Joseph, being roused from sleep, did as the angel of [the] Lord commanded him and took his wife,


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and Jesse fathered David the king. And David the king fathered Solomon of [her who had been] wife of Uriah.


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And when He had called to [Him] His twelve disciples, He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.


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<J>nor a bag for [the] journey, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor staves. For the workman is worthy of his food.</J>


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<J>And into whatever city or village you enter, inquire who within it is worthy. And there abide until you go away from there.</J>


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<J>And if the house is worthy, let your peace come on it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.</J>


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<J>And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.</J>


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<J>Truly I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.</J>


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<J>Behold, I send you out as sheep in [the] midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves.</J>


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<J>But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.</J>


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<J>And you shall be brought before governors and kings for My sake, for a testimony against them and the nations.</J>


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<J>But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak; for it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak.</J>


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And the names of the twelve apostles are these: First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James [the son] of Zebedee and John his brother;


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<J>And brother will deliver up brother to death, and [the] father [his] child. And the children shall rise up against [their] parents and cause them to be put to death.</J>


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<J>And you will be hated of all [men] for My name's sake, but the [one] who endures to [the] end shall be kept safe.</J>


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<J>But when they persecute you in this city, flee into another; for truly I say to you, In no way shall you have finished the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.</J>


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<J>It is enough for the disciple that he is like his master, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?</J>


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<J>Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, and nothing hidden which shall not be known.</J>


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<J>What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear, proclaim on the housetops.</J>


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<J>And do not fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.</J>


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<J>Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.</J>


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Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax-collector; James [the son] of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus;


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<J>Then everyone who shall confess Me before men, I will confess him before My Father who is in Heaven.</J>


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<J>Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I did not come to send peace, but a sword.</J>


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<J>For I have come to set a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.</J>


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<J>He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.</J>


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<J>He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward. And he who receives a just [one] in the name of a just one will receive a just [one's] reward.</J>


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<J>And whoever shall give to one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] to drink, only in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, He shall in no way lose his reward.</J>


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<J>Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. You have received freely, freely give.</J>


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And it happened, when Jesus had finished commanding His twelve disciples, He left there to teach and to proclaim in their cities.


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<J>For this is [the one] of whom it is written, Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.</J>


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<J>Truly I say to you, Among [those] who have been born of women there has not risen a greater one than John the Baptist. But the least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.</J>


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<J>And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of Heaven is taken by violence, and the violent take it by force.</J>


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<J>But to what shall I compare to this generation? It is like little children sitting in [the] markets and calling to their playmates,</J>


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saying, <J>We played the flute to you, and you did not dance! We mourned to you, but you did not wail!</J>


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<J>The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man who is a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners. But wisdom was justified by her children.</J>


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Then He began to upbraid the cities in which most of His mighty works were done, because they did not repent.


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<J>Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the powerful acts which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes!</J>


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<J>But I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.</J>


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<J>And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to the heaven, shall be brought down to hell. For if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.</J>


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<J>But I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.</J>


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<J>All things are delivered to Me by My Father. And no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son will reveal Him.</J>


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<J>Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.</J>


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<J>the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear; the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel proclaimed to them.</J>


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<J>But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft [clothing]? Behold, they who wear soft [clothing] are in kings' houses.</J>


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<J>But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and [one] more excellent than a prophet.</J>


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At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the sabbath day. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the heads [of grain] and to eat.


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And behold, a man having [a] withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbaths? This so that they might accuse Him.


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<J>How much better is a man then than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.</J>


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But when Jesus knew [it], He withdrew Himself from there. And great crowds followed Him, and He healed them all.


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Behold My Child whom I have chosen; My Beloved, in whom My soul is well pleased. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He shall declare judgment to the nations.


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But when the Pharisees saw, they said to Him, Behold, your disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath day.


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He will not break a bruised reed, and He will not quench a smoking wick, until He sends out judgment to victory.


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Then one who had been demon-possessed was brought to Him, blind and dumb. And He healed him, so much so that the blind and dumb one both spoke and saw.


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But when the Pharisees heard, they said, This [one] does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons.


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<J>And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand?</J>


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<J>But if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast [them] out? Therefore they shall be your judges.</J>


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<J>Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods, unless first he binds the strong one, and then he will plunder his house.</J>


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<J>The [one] who is not with Me is against Me, and the [one] who does not gather with Me scatters.</J>


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<J>Therefore I say to you, All kinds of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men, but the blasphemy [against] the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.</J>


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<J>And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this world or in the [world] to come.</J>


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<J>Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by [its] fruit.</J>


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<J>Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.</J>


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<J>A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings out good things; and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings out evil things.</J>


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<J>But I say to you that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment.</J>


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Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we want to see a sign from you.


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<J>how he entered into the house of God and ate the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?</J>


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<J>For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so the Son of man shall be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.</J>


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<J>The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they repented at the proclaiming of Jonah, and behold, [One] greater than Jonah [is] here.</J>


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<J>The queen of the south shall rise up in the Judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, [One] greater than Solomon [is] here.</J>


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<J>When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks through dry places seeking rest, and finds none.</J>


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<J>Then he said, I will return into my house from where I came out. And when he has come, he finds [it] empty, swept, and decorated.</J>


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<J>Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and live there. And the last [state] of that man is worse than the first. Even so it also shall be to this evil generation.</J>


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But while He yet talked with the people, behold, [His] mother and His brothers stood outside, desiring to speak with Him.


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Then one said to Him, Behold, Your mother and Your brothers stand outside, desiring to speak with You.


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<J>Or have you not read in the Law that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless?</J>


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<J>For whoever shall do the will of My Father in Heaven, the same is My brother and sister and mother.</J>


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<J>But if you had known what [this] is, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned those who are not guilty.</J>


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<J>For whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance. But whoever does not have, from him shall be taken away even that which he has.</J>


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<J>Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not; nor do they understand.</J>


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<J>And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which said, By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and shall not perceive;</J>


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<J>for this people's heart has become gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with [their ears and should understand with [their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.</J>


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<J>For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous [men] have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear what you hear, and have not heard them.</J>


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<J>When anyone hears the Word of the kingdom and does not understand [it,] then the wicked one comes and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown by the wayside.</J>


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And great crowds were gathered to Him, so that He went into a boat and sat. And all the crowd stood on the shore.


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<J>But that which was sown on the stony places is this: he who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy.</J>


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<J>But he has no root in himself, and is temporary. For when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, he immediately stumbles.</J>


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<J>And that sown into the thorns is this: he who hears the Word; and the anxiety of this world, and the deceit of riches, choke the Word, and he becomes unfruitful.</J>


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<J>But that sown on the good ground is this: he who hears the Word and understands; who also bears fruit and produces one truly a hundredfold; and one sixty; and one thirty.</J>


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<J>So the servants of the householder came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where have the darnel come from?</J>


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<J>He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Then do you want us to go and gather them up?</J>


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<J>Let both grow together until the harvest. And in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.</J>


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<J>which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.</J>


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Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable,


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so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.


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Then sending the crowds away, Jesus went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field.


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<J>the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom; but the darnel are the sons of the evil [one].</J>


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<J>The enemy who sowed them is the Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.</J>


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<J>Therefore as the darnel are gathered and burned in the fire, so it shall be in the end of this world.</J>


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<J>The Son of man shall send out His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who do iniquity,</J>


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<J>Then the righteous shall shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.</J>


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<J>Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which when a man has found it, he hides it, and for the joy of it goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.</J>


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<J>who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.</J>


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<J>Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered some of every kind;</J>


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<J>which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away.</J>


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<J>So it shall be at the end of the world. The angels shall come out and separate the wicked from among the just,</J>


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<J>Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth. And they sprang up immediately, because they [had] no deepness of earth.</J>


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And when He had come into His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so much so that they were astonished and said, From where does this [man have] this wisdom and these mighty works?


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Is not this the carpenter's son? [Is] not his mother called Mary? And his brothers, James and Joses and Simon and Judas,


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<J>And some fell on the good ground and yielded fruit, indeed one a hundredfold, and one sixty, and one thirty.</J>


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When Jesus heard, He departed from there by boat into a deserted place apart. And hearing, the crowds followed Him on foot out of the cities.


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And Jesus went out and saw a great crowd, and He was moved with compassion toward them. And He healed their sick.


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And evening coming on, His disciples came to Him, saying, The place is deserted and the time has already gone by. Send the crowd away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.


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And He commanded the crowd to recline on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven He blessed and broke, and gave the loaves to [His] disciples. And the disciples [gave] to the crowd.


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and said to his servants, This is John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, and therefore the powerful works [are] working in him.


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And they all ate and were filled. And they took up twelve hand baskets full from the fragments that remained.


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And immediately Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a boat and to go before Him to the other side, while He sent the crowds away.


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And when He had sent the crowds away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray. And when evening had come, He was there alone.


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And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a phantom! And they cried out for fear.


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For Herod had laid hold on John, and had bound him, and had put [him] in prison because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife.


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But seeing that the wind was strong, he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me!


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And recognizing Him, the men of that place sent to all that neighborhood, and brought to Him all who were diseased.


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And [they] begged Him that they might only touch the hem of His robe. And as many as touched were made perfectly whole.


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And when he desired to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.


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And she, being instructed before by her mother, said, Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter.


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And the king was sorry. But for the oath's sake, and those reclining with [him], he commanded [it] to be given.


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<J>Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.</J>


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<J>Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.</J>


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<J>Do you not yet understand that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into [the] waste-bowl?</J>


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<J>For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;</J>


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Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.


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<J>these are [the things] which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.</J>


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And behold, a woman of Canaan coming out of these borders cried to Him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is grievously vexed with a demon.


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But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and begged Him, saying, Send her away, for she cries after us.


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And she said, True, O Lord; but even the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' tables.


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And moving from there Jesus came beside the Sea of Galilee. And He went up into a mountain and sat there.


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so much so that the crowd wondered when they saw the dumb speak, the maimed sound, the lame walk, and the blind see. And they glorified the God of Israel.


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And His disciples said to Him, From where should we [get] so many loaves in the wilderness, so as to fill so great a crowd?


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And He took the seven loaves and the fish, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave to His disciples. And the disciples gave to the crowd.


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And they all ate, and were filled; and they took up seven lunch baskets full of the pieces that was left.


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<J>For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother; and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him die by death.</J>


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<J>But you say, Whoever says to [his] father or mother, Whatever you would gain from me, [It is] a gift to God;</J>


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<J>and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you voided the commandment of God by your tradition.</J>


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<J>This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with [their] lips, but their heart is far from Me.</J>


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The Pharisees and the Sadducees came to Him, tempting Him. And they asked Him that He would show them a sign from Heaven.


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<J>How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you about loaves, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?</J>


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Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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And they said, Some [say], John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.


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<J>And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and [the] gates of hell shall not prevail against it.</J>


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<J>And I will give the keys of the kingdom of Heaven to you. And whatever you may bind on earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven, and whatever you may loose on earth shall occur, having been loosed in Heaven.</J>


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From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.


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Then Peter took Him and began to rebuke Him, saying, [God be] gracious to You, Lord! This shall never be to You.


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<J>For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever desires to lose his life for My sake shall find it.</J>


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<J>For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?</J>


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<J>For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He shall reward each one according to his works.</J>


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<J>Truly I say to you, There are some standing here who shall not taste of death until they see the Son of man coming in His kingdom.</J>


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<J>And in the morning, Foul weather today; for the sky is red and gloomy. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky, but you cannot [see] the signs of the times!</J>


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<J>Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand baskets you took up;</J>


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And after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain apart.


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<J>But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but have done to him whatever they desired. Likewise also the Son of man shall suffer from them.</J>


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Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and grievously vexed; for oftentimes he falls into the fire, and often into the water.


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And He was transfigured before them. And His face shone as the sun, and His clothing was white as the light.


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And when they had come to Capernaum, those who received the didrachmas came to Peter and said, Does your master not pay the didrachmas?


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<J>But lest we should offend them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. And when you have opened its mouth, you shall find a stater; take that, and give it to them for Me and you.</J>


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And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. If You will, let us make here three tabernacles; one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


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While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. And behold a voice out of the cloud which said, This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear Him.


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<J>Take heed [that] you do not despise one of these little [ones]. For I say to you that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father in Heaven.</J>


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<J>What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, does he not leave the ninety and nine [and] go into the mountains and seek the straying one?</J>


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<J>And if it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety and nine which did not stray.</J>


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<J>Even so it is not [the] will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little [ones] should perish.</J>


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<J>But if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.</J>


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<J>But if he will not hear [you], take one or two more with you, so that in [the] mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.</J>


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<J>And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell [it] to the church. But if he neglects to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax-collector.</J>


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<J>Truly I say to you, Whatever you shall bind on earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven; and whatever you shall loose on earth shall occur, having been loosed in Heaven.</J>


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<J>Again I say to you that if two of you shall agree on earth as regarding anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by My Father in Heaven.</J>


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<J>Therefore the kingdom of Heaven has been compared to a certain king who desired to make an accounting with his servants.</J>


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<J>But as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he, and his wife and children, and all that he had, be sold, and payment be made.</J>


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<J>Then the servant fell down and worshiped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me and I will pay you all.</J>


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<J>Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion and released him and forgave him the debt.</J>


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<J>But the same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. And he laid hands on him and took [him] by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe.</J>


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<J>And his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, Have patience with me and I will pay you all.</J>


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<J>So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were very sorry. And they came and told their lord all that was done.</J>


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<J>Then his lord, after he had called him, said to him, O wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.</J>


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<J>And his lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.</J>


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<J>So likewise shall My heavenly Father do also to you, unless each one of you from your hearts forgive his brother their trespasses.</J>


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<J>Therefore whoever shall humble himself like this little child, this one is the greater in the kingdom of Heaven.</J>


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<J>But whoever shall offend one of these little [ones] who believes in Me, it would be better for him that an ass's millstone were hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.</J>


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<J>Woe to the world because of offenses! For it is necessary that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!</J>


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<J>And if your hand or your foot causes you to offend, cut them off and throw [them] from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.</J>


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<J>And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and throw [it] from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.</J>


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<J>For there are some eunuchs who were born so from [their] mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive [it], let him receive it.</J>


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<J>And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.</J>


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<J>And everyone who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.</J>


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<J>and said, For this cause a man shall leave father and mother and shall cling to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh?</J>


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<J>Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.</J>


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And coming into the house, they saw the child with Mary His mother. And they fell down and worshiped Him. And opening their treasures, they presented gifts to Him, gold and frankincense and myrrh.


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saying, Where is He [who is] born king of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east and have come to worship Him.


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saying, Arise, and take the child and His mother. And go into [the] land of Israel. For the ones who sought the child's life are dead.


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When they had heard the king, they departed. And lo, the star which they saw in the east went before them until it came and stood over where the child was.


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<J>For the kingdom of Heaven is like a man, a housemaster, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.</J>


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<J>But when the first came, they supposed that they would received more; and they also each one received a denarius.</J>


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<J>But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?</J>


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<J>Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. And the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death.</J>


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<J>And they shall deliver Him to the nations to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He shall rise again.</J>


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<J>And when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.</J>


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<J>However, it shall not be so among you. But whoever desires to be great among you, let him be your servant.</J>


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<J>even as the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.</J>


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<J>And he said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went.</J>


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<J>And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all day idle?</J>


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<J>They said to him, Because no one has hired us. He said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and you shall receive whatever is right.</J>


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<J>So when evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers and pay them [their] wage, beginning from the last to the first.</J>


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<J>And when they [who were hired about] the eleventh hour came, they each one received a denarius.</J>


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<J>But what do you think? A man had two sons; and he came to the first and said, Son, go work in my vineyard today.</J>


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<J>And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, The Lord has need of them, and immediately He will send them.</J>


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<J>And he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, I [go], sir; and did not go.</J>


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<J>For John came to you in [the] way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax-collectors and the harlots believed him. And when you had seen [it], you did not repent afterwards so that you might believe him.</J>


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<J>Hear another parable. There was a certain housemaster who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went into a far country.</J>


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<J>And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to receive its fruits.</J>


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<J>And the vinedressers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.</J>


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<J>But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and get hold of his inheritance.</J>


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<J>Therefore I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing out its fruits.</J>


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<J>And he who falls on this Stone shall be broken, but on whomever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.</J>


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Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King comes to you, meek, and sitting on an ass, even a colt the foal of an ass.


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And the crowds who went before, and those who followed, cried out, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed [is] He who comes in [the] name of [the] Lord! Hosanna in the highest!


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<J>So the servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. And the wedding was filled with reclining guests.</J>


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<J>And the king coming in to look over the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.</J>


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<J>And he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here without having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.</J>


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<J>Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot and take him away, and cast [him] into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</J>


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saying, Master, Moses said, If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed to his brother.


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<J>And he sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they would not come.</J>


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<J>For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in Heaven.</J>


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<J>But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,</J>


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<J>Again he sent out other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatlings [are] killed, and all things [are] ready. Come to the marriage.</J>


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<J>the LORD said to my Lord, Sit on My right until I make Your enemies Your footstool for Your feet?</J>


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<J>But when the king heard, he was angry. And he sent out his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.</J>


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<J>Then he said to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they who were invited were not worthy.</J>


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<J>Therefore go into the exits of the highways, and as many as you shall find, invite them to the marriage.</J>


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<J>And whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he who shall humble himself shall be exalted.</J>


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<J>But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you compass sea and the dry [land] to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, blind guides, saying, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.</J>


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<J>And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, [he is] a debtor!</J>


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<J>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier [matters] of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.</J>


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<J>Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of them may be clean also.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside they are full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.</J>


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<J>Even so you also appear righteous to men outwardly, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,</J>


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<J>Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do. But do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do.</J>


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<J>and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.</J>


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<J>Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets;</J>


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<J>Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify [some] of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city;</J>


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<J>so that on you may come all [the] righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.</J>


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<J>O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the [one] killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under [her] wings, and you would not!</J>


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<J>For I say to you, You shall not see Me from now on until you say, Blessed [is] He who comes in [the] name of the Lord.</J>


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<J>For they bind heavy and hard-to-carry burdens and lay [them] on men's shoulders. But they will not move them with one of their finger.</J>


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<J>But they do all their works in order to be seen of men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.</J>


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And Jesus went out and departed from the temple. And His disciples came to [Him] to show Him the buildings of the temple.


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<J>And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come.</J>


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<J>Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand).</J>


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<J>for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since [the] beginning of [the] world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.</J>


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<J>And unless those days should be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.</J>


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<J>For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders; so much so that, if [it were] possible, they would deceive even the elect.</J>


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<J>Therefore if they shall say to you, Behold, [He is] in the desert! Do not go out. Behold, [He is] in the secret rooms! Do not believe it.</J>


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<J>For as the lightning comes out of [the] east and shines even to [the] west, so also will be the coming of the Son of man.</J>


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<J>And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.</J>


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And as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what [shall be] the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world?


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<J>And then the sign of the Son of man shall appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.</J>


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<J>And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of [the] heavens to the other.</J>


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<J>Now learn a parable of the fig tree. When its branch is still tender and puts out leaves, you know that summer [is] near.</J>


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<J>For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until [the] day Noah entered into the ark.</J>


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<J>And they did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of man.</J>


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<J>But know this, that if the steward of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be dug through.</J>


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<J>Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord has made ruler over His household, to give them food in due season?</J>


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<J>the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he does not look for [Him], and in an hour which he does not know.</J>


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<J>And He shall cut him apart and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</J>


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<J>And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all [these things] must occur; but the end is not yet.</J>


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<J>For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places.</J>


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<J>Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My name's sake.</J>


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<J>Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.</J>


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<J>And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And they who were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.</J>


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<J>Therefore watch, for you do not know either the day or the hour in which the Son of man comes.</J>


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<J>And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his ability. And he went abroad at once.</J>


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<J>And going he who had received the five talents traded with them, and made another five talents.</J>


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<J>And so he who had received five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, Lord, you delivered five talents to me. Behold, I have gained five talents above them.</J>


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<J>His lord said to him, Well [done], good and faithful servant! You have been faithful over a few things; I will [make] you [ruler] over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.</J>


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<J>He also who had received two talents came and said, Lord, you delivered two talents to me. Behold, I have gained two other talents above them.</J>


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<J>His lord said to him, Well [done], good and faithful servant! You have been faithful over a few things, I will [make] you [ruler] over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.</J>


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<J>And he who had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew that you were a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.</J>


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<J>His lord answered and said to him, Evil and slothful servant! You knew that I reaped where I did not sow, and gathered where I did not scatter,</J>


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<J>then you should have put my money to the exchangers, and coming I would have received my own with interest.</J>


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<J>For to everyone who has, [more] shall be given, and he will abound. But from him who has not, even that which he has shall be taken away from him.</J>


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<J>And throw the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</J>


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<J>But when the Son of man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He shall sit on the throne of His glory.</J>


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<J>And all nations shall be gathered before Him. And He shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats.</J>


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<J>Then the King shall say to those on His right [hand], Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from [the] foundation of [the] world.</J>


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<J>For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you took Me in;</J>


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<J>I was naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.</J>


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<J>Then the righteous shall answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, and fed [You]? Or thirsty, and gave [You] drink?</J>


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<J>And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did [it] to one of the least of these My brothers, you have done [it] to Me.</J>


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<J>Then He also shall say to those on [the] left [hand], Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels.</J>


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<J>I was a stranger and you did not take Me in; I was naked, and you did not clothe Me; I was sick, and in prison, and you did not visit me.</J>


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<J>Then they will also answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to You?</J>


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<J>Then He shall answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did not do [it] to one of the least of these, you did not do [it] to Me.</J>


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<J>And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.</J>


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<J>But the wise answered, saying, [No], lest there be not enough for us and you. But rather go to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.</J>


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<J>Truly I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be proclaimed in the whole world, that which this woman has done shall be spoken of also, for a memorial of her.</J>


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And he said [to them], What will you give me, and I will betray Him to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.


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And on the first [day] of the [Feast of] Unleavened [Bread], the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, Where do You desire that we prepare for You to eat the Passover?


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<J>You know that after two days the Passover comes, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.</J>


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<J>The Son of man goes, as it has been written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.</J>


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<J>But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom.</J>


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Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.


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Peter answered and said to Him, though all shall be offended because of You, I will never be offended.


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Peter said to Him, though I should die with You, yet I will not deny You. All the disciples also said the same.


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And He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with Him, and He began to be sorrowful and very heavy.


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<J>Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.</J>


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And as He was yet speaking, behold, Judas came, one of the Twelve. And with him came a great crowd with swords and clubs, being sent from the chief priests and elders of the people.


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And he who betrayed Him gave them a sign, saying, Whomever I shall kiss, He is the one, lay hold on Him.


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And, behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out [his] hand and drew his sword, and he struck a servant of the high priest and [cut] off his ear.


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<J>Do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He shall presently give Me more than twelve legions of angels?</J>


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But all this happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, forsaking Him.


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And they who had seized Jesus led [Him] away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had assembled.


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But Peter followed Him afar off to the high priest's court, and he went in and sat with the servants to see the end.


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And the chief priests and the elders and all the sanhedrin sought false witness against Jesus, in order to put Him to death.


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But they found none; yea, though many false witnesses came, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came up


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And standing up, the high priest said to Him, Do you answer nothing? What [is it that] these witness against you?


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But Jesus was silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.


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Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy! What further need do we have of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.


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Then they spat in His face and beat Him with the fist. And others struck [Him] with the palms of their hands,


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And Peter sat outside in the court. And a girl came to him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee.


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a woman came to Him, having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured [it] on His head as He reclined.


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And when he had gone out into the porch, another saw him and said to those there, This one was also with Jesus of Nazareth.


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And after a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, Surely you also are [one] of them, for your speech betrays you.


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And [it] becoming early morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death.


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Now at [that] feast the governor was accustomed to release to the people a prisoner, whomever they desired.


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Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom do you desire that I release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus [who is] called Christ?


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But as he was sitting down on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that just man, for today because of Him I have suffered many things in a dream.


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But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd that they should ask [for] Barabbas and destroy Jesus.


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The governor answered and said to them, Which of the two do you desire that I release [to] you? They said, Barabbas.


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Pilate said to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ? [They] all said to him, Let Him be crucified.


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And the governor said, Why? What evil has He done? But they cried out the more, saying, let Him be crucified!


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But when Pilate saw that it gained nothing, but rather [that] a tumult was made, he took water and washed [his] hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. You see to it.


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Then he released Barabbas to them. And when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [Him] to be crucified.


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Then taking Jesus into the praetorium, the soldiers of the governor gathered the cohort against Him.


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And plaiting a crown of thorns, they put [it] on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!


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Then he who had betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, sorrowing, Judas returned the thirty pieces of silver again to the chief priests and elders,


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And after they had mocked Him, they took the robe off of Him and put His own clothing on Him and led Him away to crucify [Him].


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And they crucified Him, dividing His garments, casting a lot; so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted My garments among them, and they cast a lot for My clothing.


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saying, I have sinned, betraying innocent blood. And they said, What [is that] to us? You see [to that].


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and saying, [You] destroying the temple and building [it] in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.


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He saved others, but he cannot save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.


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He trusted in God, let Him deliver him now, if He will have him. (For He said, I am [the] Son of God.)


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And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar, and he put [it] on a reed and gave it to Him to drink.


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And, behold! The veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And the earth quaked, and the rocks were sheared,


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and coming out of the tomb after His resurrection [they] went into the holy city and appeared to many.


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But the centurion and those guarding Jesus, seeing the earthquake, and the things that took place, [they] feared greatly, saying, Truly this One was Son of God.


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And many of the women were there, watching from a distance, [those] who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him, watching from a distance;


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among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.


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When the evening had come, a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, came, who also himself was Jesus' disciple.


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And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is [the] price of blood.


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and laid it in his new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and departed.


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And on the next day, which was after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered to Pilate,


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Then command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal him away and say to the people, He has risen from the dead. So the last error will be worse than the first.


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Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him who had been priced, whom they of the children of Israel valued,


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But late in the week, at the dawning into the first [day] of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.


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And as they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city and declared all the things that were done to the chief priests.


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And taking the silver, they did as they were taught. And this saying was spread among the Jews until today.


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<J>Therefore go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</J>


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And behold, a great earthquake occurred! For coming down from Heaven, and coming up, an angel of [the] Lord rolled back the stone from the door and [was] sitting on it.


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<J>teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the world. Amen.</J>


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And the angel answered and said to the women, Do not fear, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.


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And go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead. And, behold, He goes before you into Galilee. There you shall see Him. Lo, I have told you.


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And they quickly departed from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word.


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And now also, the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.


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I indeed baptize you with water to repentance. But He who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He shall baptize you with [the] Holy Spirit and [with] fire;


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whose fan [is] in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and gather His wheat into the storehouse; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.


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And Jesus, when He had been baptized, went up immediately out of the water. And lo, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon Him.


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For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of [one] crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of [the] Lord, make His paths straight.


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And the same John had his clothing of camel's hair and a leather girdle about his loins. And his food was locusts and wild honey.


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But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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and do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as [our] father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.


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The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, [by] way of [the] sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations!


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The people who sat in darkness saw a great Light; and Light has sprung up to those who sat in [the] region and shadow of death.


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And walking by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea. For they were fishermen.


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And going on from there, he saw another two brothers, James [the son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. And He called them;


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And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.


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And His fame went throughout all Syria. And they brought to Him all those being badly ill] suffering various diseases and torments, and [those] who had been possessed with demons, and those who had been moonstruck, and paralytics. And He healed them.


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And great multitudes of people followed Him, from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and beyond Jordan.


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And when the tempter came to Him, he said, If You are [the] Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.


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<J>Blessed [are] they who have been persecuted for righteousness sake! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.</J>


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<J>Blessed are you when [men] shall revile you and persecute [you], and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake.</J>


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<J>Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward in Heaven [is] great. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.</J>


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<J>You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its savor, with what shall it be salted? It is no longer good for anything, but to be thrown out and to be trodden underfoot by men.</J>


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<J>Nor do men light a lamp and put it under the grain-measure, but on a lampstand. And it gives light to all who are in the house.</J>


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<J>Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.</J>


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<J>Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy but to fulfill.</J>


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<J>For truly I say to you, Till the heaven and the earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any way pass from the law until all is fulfilled.</J>


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<J>Therefore whoever shall break one of these commandments, the least, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven.</J>


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<J>For I say to you that unless your righteousness shall exceed [that] of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of Heaven.</J>


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<J>You have heard that it was said to the ancients, You shall not kill --and, Whoever shall kill shall be liable to the judgment.</J>


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<J>But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be liable to the judgment. And whoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be liable to the sanhedrin; but whoever shall say, Fool! shall be liable [to be thrown] into the fire of hell.</J>


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<J>Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,</J>


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<J>leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.</J>


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<J>Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; that the opponent not deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.</J>


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<J>Truly I say to you, You shall by no means come out from there until you have paid the last kodrantes.</J>


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<J>But I say to you that whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</J>


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<J>And if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and throw [it] from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not [that] your whole body should be thrown into hell.</J>


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<J>And if your right hand offends you, cut it off and throw [it] from you. For it is profitable for you [that] one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.</J>


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<J>But I say to you that whoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry her who is put away commits adultery.</J>


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<J>Again, you have heard that it has been said to the ancients, You shall not swear falsely, but you shall perform your oaths to the Lord.</J>


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<J>not by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet; not by Jerusalem, because it is [the] city of the great King;</J>


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<J>But I say to you, Do not resist evil. But whoever shall strike you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.</J>


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<J>But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you,</J>


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<J>so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on [the] evil and on [the] good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.</J>


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<J>For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same?</J>


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<J>And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax-collectors do so?</J>


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<J>Take heed that you do not do your merciful deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in Heaven.</J>


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<J>And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil. For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.</J>


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<J>but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.</J>


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<J>And when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, of a sad face. For they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to fast. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.</J>


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<J>so that you do not appear to men to fast, but to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.</J>


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<J>Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.</J>


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<J>Therefore when you do [your] merciful deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.</J>


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<J>But lay up treasures in Heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.</J>


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<J>The light of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body shall be full of light.</J>


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<J>But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light [that is] in you is darkness, how great [is] that darkness!</J>


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<J>No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.</J>


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<J>Therefore I say to you, Do not be anxious for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?</J>


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<J>Behold the birds of the air; for they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them; are you not much better than they are?</J>


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<J>And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They do not toil, nor do they spin,</J>


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<J>Therefore if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, [will He] not much rather [clothe] you, little-faiths?</J>


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<J>Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed?</J>


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<J>For the nations seek after all these things. For your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.</J>


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<J>But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.</J>


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<J>Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow; for tomorrow shall be anxious for its own things. Sufficient to the day [is] the evil of it.</J>


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<J>so that your merciful deeds may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret Himself shall reward you openly.</J>


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<J>And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.</J>


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<J>But you, when you pray, enter into your room. And shutting your door, pray to your Father in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.</J>


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<J>But when you pray, do not babble vain words, as the nations. For they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard.</J>


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<J>Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask Him.</J>


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<J>If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him?</J>


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<J>Therefore all things, whatever you desire that men should do to you, do even so to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.</J>


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<J>Go in through the narrow gate, for wide [is] the gate and broad [is] the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in through it.</J>


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<J>Because narrow [is] the gate and constricted [is] the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.</J>


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<J>Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.</J>


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<J>You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?</J>


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<J>For with whatever judgment you judge, you shall be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, it shall be measured to you again.</J>


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<J>Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.</J>


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<J>Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful works?</J>


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<J>Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.</J>


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<J>And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. And it did not fall, for it was founded on a rock.</J>


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<J>And everyone who hears these sayings of Mine and does not do them shall be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand.</J>


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<J>And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the wind blew and beat on that house. And it fell, and great was its fall.</J>


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And it happened, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His doctrine.


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<J>And why do you look on the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but do not consider the beam that is in your own eye?</J>


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<J>Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull the splinter out of your eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in your own eye?</J>


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<J>Hypocrite! First cast the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to cast the splinter out of your brother's eye.</J>


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<J>Do not give that which [is] holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and tear you.</J>


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<J>Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.</J>


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<J>For each one who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, it shall be opened.</J>


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<J>And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven.</J>


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<J>But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</J>


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And evening coming on, they brought to Him many who had been possessed with demons. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick


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so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, He took [on Himself] our weaknesses and bore [our] sicknesses.


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And behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so much so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep.


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And when He had come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, two demon-possessed ones met Him, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one might pass by that way.


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And behold, they cried out, saying, What [have] we to do with You, Jesus, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?


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And those who fed [them] fled. And going into the city, [they] told everything, and what had happened to the ones who had been possessed of demons.


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And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw Him, they begged that He would depart out of their borders.


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The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my boy will be healed.


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For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, Go! And he goes; and to another, Come! And he comes; and to my servant, Do this! And he does [it].


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And it happened as Jesus reclined in the house, behold, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Him and His disciples.


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And when the Pharisees saw, they said to His disciples, Why does your master eat with tax-collectors and sinners?


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<J>But go and learn what [this is], I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.</J>


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Then the disciples of John came to Him saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?


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<J>No one puts a piece of new cloth onto an old garment; for that which is put in to fill it up takes from the garment, and the tear is made worse.</J>


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<J>Nor do men put new wine into old wineskins; else the wineskins burst, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins perish. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved together.</J>


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While He spoke these things to them, behold, a certain ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, My daughter has just now died. But come and lay Your hand on her and she will live.


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And behold, a woman, who had a flow of blood for twelve years, came up behind [Him] and touched the hem of His garment.


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And when Jesus passed on from there, two blind ones followed Him, crying and saying, Son of David, have mercy on us.


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And when the demon had been cast out, the dumb one spoke. And multitudes marveled, saying, Never was it seen like this in Israel!


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And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.


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But seeing the crowds, He was moved with compassion on them, because they were tired and scattered like sheep having no shepherd.


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And immediately coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him.


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And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan. And He was with the wild beasts, and the angels ministered to Him.


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And after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of God,


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And walking along beside the sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.


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And when He going farther from there a little, He saw James [the son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending their nets.


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as it is written in the Prophets, Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.


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And immediately He called them. And they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and went after Him.


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And they went into Capernaum. And immediately on the sabbath day He entered into the synagogue and taught.


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And they were astonished at His doctrine. For He taught them as one who had authority, and not like the scribes.


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saying, What [is] to us and to You, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know You, who You are, the Holy One of God.


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They all were amazed, so as to question among themselves, saying, What is this? What new doctrine [is] this? For He even commands the unclean spirits with authority, and they obey Him.


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And immediately after they had come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


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And He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. And instantly the fever left her, and she served them.


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And at evening, when the sun set, they brought all those who were diseased to Him, and those who had been demon-possessed.


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And He healed many who were sick of different diseases, and cast out many demons. And He did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew Him.


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And rising up quite early in [the] night, He went out and went away into a deserted place, and [He] was praying there.


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John came baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.


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And a leper came to Him, begging Him and kneeling down to Him, and saying to Him, If You will, You can make me clean.


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But going out, he began to proclaim [it] very much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was outside in deserted places. And they came to Him from every quarter.


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And all the land of Judea, and those of Jerusalem, went out to him and were all baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.


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And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a leather girdle about his loin. And he ate locusts and wild honey.


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And he proclaimed, saying, There is One coming after me who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down to loosen.


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And it happened in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.


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And He arose from there. And He came into the borders of Judea by the other side of the Jordan. And again a crowd came together to Him. And as was His custom, He taught them again.


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And they brought children to Him, so that He should touch them. And [His] disciples rebuked those bringing [them].


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<J>Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter into it.</J>


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And when He had gone out into the way, one came running up and kneeled to Him, and asked Him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?


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<J>You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and your mother.</J>


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And tempting Him, the Pharisees came to Him and asked Him, Is it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife?


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<J>It is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than [for] a rich one to enter into the kingdom of God.</J>


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<J>but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternal life.</J>


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And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem. And Jesus went before them. And they were amazed, and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took the Twelve again and began to tell them what would happen to Him,


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<J>[saying], Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. And the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes. And they will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him to the nations.</J>


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<J>And they will mock Him, and will scourge Him, and will spit on Him, and will kill Him. And the third day He shall rise again.</J>


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And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to Him, saying, Master, we desire that You should do for us whatever we shall ask.


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They said to Him, Grant to us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left hand, in Your glory.


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<J>But to sit on My right [hand] and on My left is not Mine to give, but [to those] for whom it is prepared.</J>


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<J>But it shall not be so among you. But whoever desires to be great among you, let him be your servant.</J>


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<J>For even the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life [as] a ransom for many.</J>


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And they came to Jericho. And as He with His disciples and a large crowd went out of Jericho, blind Bartimeus, the son of Timeus, was sitting by the side of the highway, begging.


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And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me!


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And many warned him that he should be quiet, but he cried a great deal more, Son of David, have mercy on me!


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And when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, He sent out two of His disciples.


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Blessed [is] the kingdom of our father David, who comes in [the] name of [the] Lord! Hosanna in the highest!


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And Jesus entered into Jerusalem and into the temple. And when He had looked around on all things, the hour already being late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.


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And seeing a fig-tree with leaves afar off, He went [to it], if perhaps He might find anything on it. And when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not [the] season of figs.


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And they came to Jerusalem. And entering into the temple, Jesus began to cast out those who bought and sold in the temple. And He overthrew the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves.


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And the scribes and the chief priests heard. And they sought how they might destroy Him. For they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His doctrine.


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And Peter, remembering, said to Him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which You cursed has withered away.


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<J>For truly I say to you that whoever shall say to this mountain, Be moved and be cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he said shall occur, he shall have whatever he said.</J>


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<J>Therefore I say to you, All things, whatever you ask, praying, believe that you shall receive [them], and it will be to you.</J>


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<J>And when you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive [it] so that also your Father in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses.</J>


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And they came again to Jerusalem. And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to Him


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and said to Him, By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority to do these things?


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<J>And if anyone says to you, Why do you do this? Say that the Lord has need of him, and immediately he will send him here.</J>


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And they reasoned within themselves, saying, If we shall say, From Heaven, he will say, Why then did you not believe him?


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And they went, and they found the colt tied by the door outside, in a place where two ways met. And they untied him.


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And many spread their garments in the way, and others cut down branches off the trees and scattered [them] in the way.


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And those going before, and those following, cried out, saying, Hosanna! Blessed [is] He who comes in [the] name of [the] Lord!


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<J>And have you not read this scripture The] Stone which the builders rejected has become the Head of [the] corner:</J>


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And they sought to seize him, but feared the crowd. For they knew that He spoke the parable against them. And leaving Him, they went away.


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And coming, they said to Him, Teacher, we know that you are true and you care about no one. For you do not look to [the] face of men, but teach the way of God [in] truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?


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Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If a man's brother die and leaves [his] wife, and leaves no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.


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<J>And at the season he sent a servant to the vinedressers, so that he might receive from the vinedressers the fruit of the vineyard.</J>


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In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.


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<J>For when they shall rise from [the] dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are as the angels in Heaven.</J>


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<J>And as regards the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses how God spoke to him in the Bush, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?</J>


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And coming up one of the scribes heard them reasoning, knowing that He had answered them well, he asked Him, Which is [the] first commandment of all?


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<J>and you shall love [the] Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This [is] the first commandment.</J>


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<J>And [the] second [is] like this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.</J>


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And the scribe said to Him, Right, Teacher, according to truth You have spoken, that God is one, and there is no other besides Him.


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And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love the neighbor as himself, is more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.


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<J>For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand until I place Your enemies as Your footstool.</J>


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<J>And again he sent to them another servant. And stoning that one, they struck [him] in the head, and sent [him] away, insulting him.</J>


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<J>who devour widows' houses, and as a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive greater condemnation.</J>


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And sitting down opposite the treasury, Jesus watched how the people threw copper coins into the treasury. And many rich ones threw in much.


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<J>For all cast in from their abundance. But she, out of her poverty, has cast [in] all that she had, all her livelihood.</J>


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<J>And again he sent another. And they killed him, and many others, beating some and killing some.</J>


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<J>Therefore, still having one son, his own beloved, he also sent him to them last of all, saying, They will respect my son.</J>


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<J>But those vinedressers said among themselves, This is the heir! Come, let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.</J>


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<J>Therefore what will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers and will give the vineyard to others.</J>


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And as He went out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, Master, see! What stones and what buildings!


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<J>But whenever they lead [you] away and deliver [you] up, take no thought beforehand what you should speak or think. But speak whatever shall be given to you in that hour. For it is not you who speaks, but the Holy Spirit.</J>


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<J>And a brother will betray a brother to death, and a father his son. And children will rise up against [their] parents and will cause them to be put to death.</J>


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<J>And you will be hated by all for My name's sake, but he enduring to the end, that [one] will be kept safe.</J>


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<J>But when you see the abomination of desolation, that spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let him who reads understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.</J>


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<J>And let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house.</J>


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<J>For [in] those days shall be affliction, such as has not been from [the] beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never [shall] be.</J>


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<J>And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, whom He has chosen, He has shortened the days.</J>


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<J>And then if anyone shall say to you, Lo, here [is] Christ! Or, lo, there! Do not believe him.</J>


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<J>For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will give miraculous] signs and wonders in order to seduce, if possible, even the elect.</J>


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<J>But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,</J>


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<J>And then He shall send His angels and shall gather His elect from the four winds, from [the] end of [the] earth to [the] end of heaven.</J>


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<J>And learn the parable of the fig-tree: when her branch is still tender and puts out leaves, you know that summer is near.</J>


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<J>But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.</J>


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<J>As a man going away, leaving his house, and giving authority to his servants, and each man's work to him, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.</J>


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<J>Then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, [at] evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early;</J>


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Tell us, When shall all these things be? And what [shall be] the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?


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<J>And when you shall hear [of] wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled. For it must happen, but the end [shall] not [be] yet.</J>


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<J>For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be earthquakes in different places, and there shall be famines and troubles. These things [are] the beginnings of sorrows.</J>


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<J>But take heed to yourselves. For they shall deliver you up to sanhedrins, and in the synagogues you shall be beaten. And you shall be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony against them.</J>


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And after two days it was the Passover and [the Feast of] Unleavened [Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by craft and kill [Him.


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And when they heard, they were glad and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.


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And the first day of Unleavened [Bread], when they killed the passover, His disciples said to Him, Where do You desire that we go and prepare that You may eat the passover?


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<J>And wherever he may go in, you say to the housemaster, The Teacher says, Where is the guest room where I shall eat the passover with My disciples?</J>


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And His disciples went out and came into the city and found [it] as He had said to them. And they made the passover ready.


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And they began to be grieved, and to say to Him one by one, Not at all I, [is it]? And another said, Not at all I, [is it] ?


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<J>The Son of man indeed goes, as it has been written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for that man if he had never been born.</J>


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<J>Truly I say to you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.</J>


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And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He reclined, a woman came with an alabaster vial of pure, costly ointment of spikenard. And she broke the vial and poured [it] on His head.


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But he spoke the more fervently, If I should die with You, I will not deny You in any way. Also they all said likewise.


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And He took with Him Peter and James and John. And He began to be greatly amazed, and to be very heavy.


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And He went forward a little and fell on the ground. And He prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him.


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<J>Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. Truly the spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak.</J>


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And when He returned, He found them asleep again (for their eyes were heavy), neither did they know what to answer Him.


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And immediately, while He still spoke, Judas, being one of the Twelve, came, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.


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And he who betrayed Him had given them a sign, saying, Whomever I shall kiss, [it] is He. Take Him and lead [Him] away safely.


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And one of those standing by, drawing a sword, struck a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.


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<J>I was with you daily in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.</J>


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For it might have been sold [for] more than three hundred denarii, and be given to the poor. And they were incensed with her.


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And one, a certain young man, followed Him, having thrown a linen cloth around [his] naked [body]. And the young men caught him.


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And they led Jesus away to the high priest. And with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.


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And Peter followed Him from a distance to the inside of the court of the high priest. And he sat with the servants and warmed himself at the fire.


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And the chief priests and all the sanhedrin sought for witness against Jesus, to put Him to death. And [they] found none.


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And standing up in the middle, the high priest questioned Jesus, saying, Do you answer nothing? What [do] these witness against you?


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But He was silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, Are you the Christ, the son of the Blessed?


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And some began to spit on Him, and to cover His face and to beat Him, and to say to Him, Prophesy! And the under-officers struck Him with slaps.


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And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked on him and said, And you also were with Jesus the Nazarene.


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But he denied, saying, I do not know nor even understand what you are saying. And he went out into the forecourt. And a cock crowed.


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<J>For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you desire you may do them good. But you do not have Me always.</J>


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And he denied it again. And a little after, those who stood by said again to Peter, Surely you are [one] of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech agrees.


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<J>Truly I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be proclaimed in all the world, [this] also that she has done will be spoken of for a memorial of her.</J>


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And immediately in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led [Him] away and delivered [Him] to Pilate.


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And Pilate answered and said again to them, What then do you desire that I should do [to him] whom you call the King of the Jews?


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And deciding to do the easiest [to] the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them, and having scourged [Him], delivered up Jesus to be crucified.


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And the soldiers led Him away inside the court, which is [the] praetorium. And they called together all the cohort.


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And they struck Him on the head with a reed, and spat on Him, and placing the knees, [they] bowed to Him.


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And when they had mocked Him, they took the purple off Him and put His own clothes on Him and led Him out to crucify Him.


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And they made one who was passing by, Simon a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear His cross.


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And when they had crucified Him, they divided His garments, casting lots on them, as, to what [each] should take.


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And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, Aha! You [razing] the temple and building [it] in three days,


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And also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes, said to one another, He saved others but he cannot save himself.


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Let Christ the King of Israel now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe. And they who were crucified with Him insulted Him.


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And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar and put [it] on a reed and gave [it] to him to drink. [But they said], Let alone, let us see if Elijah comes to take him down.


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And when the centurion, who stood across from him, saw that He cried out so, [and] expired, he said, Truly this man was Son of God.


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And Pilate asked Him again, saying, Do you answer nothing? Behold how many things they witness against you!


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And also women were watching from a distance, among whom also was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less, and of Joses, and Salome,


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(who also, when He was in Galilee, followed Him and ministered to Him), and many [other] women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.


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And it, becoming evening already, since it was [the] Preparation, that is, [the] day before sabbath,


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Joseph of Arimathea, an honorable counsellor, who also waited for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.


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And Pilate wondered if He were already dead. And calling the centurion, he asked him whether He had died already.


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And he bought a linen cloth, and took Him down, and wrapped [Him] in the linen, and laid Him in a tomb which was cut out of a rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the tomb.


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And there was [one] named Barabbas, bound with the insurgents, who had committed murder in the insurrection.


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And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, [the mother] of James and Salome, had bought sweet spices so that they might come and anoint Him.


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Afterward He appeared to the Eleven as they reclined. And [He] reproached their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.


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<J>He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned.</J>


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<J>And miraculous] signs will follow to those believing these things: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak new tongues;</J>


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<J>they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them. They will lay hands on [the] sick, and they will be well.</J>


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Then indeed, after speaking to them, the Lord was taken up into Heaven, and sat on [the] right hand of God.


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And very early in the morning, the first [day] of the week, they came upon the tomb, the sun having risen.


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And going out, they proclaimed everywhere, the Lord working with [them] and confirming the word by miraculous] signs following. Amen.


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And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right, clothed [in] a long white garment. And they were frightened.


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And he said to them, Do not be frightened. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen, He is not here. Behold the place where they laid Him.


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But go tell His disciples and Peter that He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see Him, as He said to you.


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And they went out quickly and fled from the tomb. For they trembled and were amazed. Neither did they say anything to anyone, for they were afraid.


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And when [Jesus] had risen early the first [day] of the Sabbath, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.


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And immediately he arose and took up his cot and went out before all. So that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, We never saw [it] this way.


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And it happened as Jesus reclined in his house, many tax-collectors and sinners also reclined with Jesus and His disciples. For there were many, and they followed Him.


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And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eat with tax-collectors and sinners, [they] said to His disciples, How [is it] that He eats and drinks with tax-collectors and sinners?


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The disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting. And they came and said to Him, Why do John's disciples and those of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?


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And immediately many were gathered, so that none any longer had room, even to the door. And He proclaimed the Word to them.


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<J>But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days.</J>


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<J>And no one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment, else [it] takes away from its fullness, the new [from] the old, and a worse tear occurs.</J>


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<J>No one puts new wine into old wineskins, else the new wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine spills, and the wineskins will be ruined. The new wine must be put into new wineskins.</J>


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And it happened that He went through the grainfields on the sabbath day. And as they walked His disciples began to pluck the heads [of grain].


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<J>How he went into the house of God in [the days of] Abiathar the high priest and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful to eat, except for the priests, and also gave to those with him?</J>


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When they could not come near to Him because of the crowd, they unroofed the roof where He was. And digging through, they let down the cot on which the paralytic was lying.


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<J>Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, [Your] sins are forgiven you; or to say, Arise, and take up your cot and walk?</J>


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And unclean spirits, when they saw Him, [they] fell down before Him and cried, saying, You are the Son of God!


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And He put on James [the son] of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, [the] names Boanerges, which is, the Sons of Thunder.


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And [He appointed] Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James [the son] of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,


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And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.


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<J>No one can enter into a strong one's house and plunder his goods, except he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.</J>


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<J>Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and blasphemies with which they shall blaspheme.</J>


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<J>But he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never shall have forgiveness, but is liable to eternal condemnation.</J>


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And the crowd sat about Him, and they said to Him, Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are outside seeking for You.


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The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.


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And Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples. And a great crowd from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea,


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and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and [from] beyond Jordan, and those around Tyre and Sidon, a great throng came to him, having heard how much He was doing.


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And He spoke to His disciples, so that a small boat should stay near to Him, because of the crowd, lest they should press on Him.


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And He began again to teach by the seaside. And there was a great crowd gathered to Him, so that He entered into a boat and sat in the sea. And the whole crowd was on the land by the seaside.


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<J>so that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and [their] sins should be forgiven them.</J>


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<J>And these are those by the wayside, where the Word is sown. And when they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts.</J>


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<J>And these are those likewise being sown on stony places; who, when they hear the Word, immediately receive it with gladness.</J>


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<J>But they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Afterward when affliction or persecution arises for the Word's sake, they are immediately offended.</J>


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<J>and the cares of this world, and the deceit of riches, and the lust about other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.</J>


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<J>And these are those sown on good ground, who hear the Word and welcome [it], and bear fruit, one thirty, one sixty, and one a hundredfold.</J>


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<J>For there is nothing hidden which shall not be revealed; nor became covered, but that it might come to the light.</J>


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<J>For he who has, [more] shall be given to him; and he who has not, from him shall be taken even that which he has.</J>


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<J>and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how.</J>


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<J>For the earth brings out fruit of itself, first the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain in the ear.</J>


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<J>But when the fruit has been brought out, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.</J>


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<J>[It is] like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth.</J>


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<J>But when it has been sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out great branches, so as to enable the birds of the air to roost under its shade.</J>


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But he did not speak to them without a parable. And when [they were] alone, He explained all things to His disciples.


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And when they had sent away the crowd, they took Him with them as He was in the boat. And there were also other little boats with Him.


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And He was in the stern of the boat, asleep on a headrest. And they awakened Him and said to Him, Master, do You not care that we perish?


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<J>And as he sowed, it happened that indeed some fell by the wayside, and the fowls of the air came and ate it up.</J>


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And they feared exceedingly and said to one another, What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?


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<J>And another fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth. And it sprang up at once, due to not having deepness of earth.</J>


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<J>And another fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.</J>


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<J>And another fell on good ground and yielded fruit, going up and increasing. And one bore thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundredfold.</J>


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And immediately Jesus allowed them. And the unclean spirits went out and entered into the pigs. And the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea (they were about two thousand), and were choked in the sea.


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And the ones who fed the pigs fled and told [it] in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.


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And they came to Jesus and saw him who had been demon-possessed, and had the legion, sitting and clothed and right-minded, the one who had the legion. And they were afraid.


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And those who had seen told them how it happened to the one who had been demon-possessed, and about the pigs.


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And when He had come out of the boat, immediately a man with unclean spirits met Him out of the tombs,


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And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all marvelled.


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And Jesus having crossed again by boat to the other side, a large crowd collected on Him. And He was near the sea.


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And, behold, one of the synagogue rulers came, Jairus by name. And when he saw Him, [he] fell at His feet.


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And he begged Him greatly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death. Come, lay Your hands on her, so that she may be healed, and she shall live.


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and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and had not been bettered any, but rather came to worse,


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And instantly the fountain of her blood dried up. And she felt in [her] body that she was healed of that plague.


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But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done in her, came and fell down before Him and told Him all the truth.


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While He still spoke, they came from the synagogue ruler's house, saying, Your daughter is dead; why do you still trouble the Teacher?


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because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nor could anyone subdue him.


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And they laughed at Him. But when He had put [them] all out, He took the father and the mother of the child, and those with Him, and went in where the child was lying.


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And instantly the little girl arose and walked (for she was twelve years [old] ). And they were astonished with a great astonishment.


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And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones.


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and cried with a loud voice, and said, What [is] to me and to You, Jesus, son of the Most High God? I adjure You by God not to torment me.


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<J>And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Truly I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.</J>


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And king Herod heard [of Him] (for His name had become well-known,) and he said that John the Baptist had been raised from the dead, and therefore mighty works operate in him.


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For Herod himself had sent out and laid hold on John and had bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. For he had married her,


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And when the sabbath day had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing [Him], were astonished, saying, Where does this one get these things? And what wisdom [is] this which is given to him, that even such mighty works are done by his hands?


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For Herod feared John, knowing that [he was] a just and holy man. And he kept him safe. And when he heard him, he did many things and heard him gladly.


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And a convenient day came, when Herod made a supper to great men on his birthday, and to the chiliarchs, and to the first ones of Galilee.


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And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced and pleased Herod, and those who reclined with [him], the king said to the girl, Ask me whatever you desire from me, and I will give [it] to you.


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And he swore to her, Whatever you shall ask from me, I will give [it] to you, to the half of my kingdom.


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And she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.


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And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I desire that you give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.


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And becoming deeply grieved, the king, because of his oath, and those reclining together, he did not wish to reject her.


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And immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in the prison,


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Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at Him.


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And the apostles gathered themselves to Jesus and told Him all things, both what they had done and what they had taught.


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And the crowds saw them leaving, and many knew Him. And [they] ran together on foot there, out of the cities. And they went before them and came together to Him.


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And going out Jesus saw a large crowd. And He was moved with compassion toward them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.


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And [it] now becoming a late hour, His disciples came to Him and said, This is a deserted place and [it is] now a late hour.


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Send them away so that they may go to the surrounding fields and villages and buy loaves for themselves. For they have nothing to eat.


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And taking the five loaves and the two fish, He looked up to Heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves, and gave [them] to His disciples to set before them. And He divided the two fish to all.


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And immediately He constrained His disciples to get into the boat and to go before to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He sent away the crowd.


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And He saw them toiling in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them. And about the fourth watch of the night He came toward them walking on the sea, and would have passed by them.


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And He could do no work of power there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick ones, He healed [them].


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And He went up into the boat to them. And the wind was cut off. And they were very much amazed within themselves beyond measure, and marveled.


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they ran all around that neighborhood, and began to carry on cots those who were sick, wherever they heard He was.


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And wherever He entered, into villages or cities or country, they laid the sick in the streets and begged Him if only they might touch but the fringe of His garment. And as many as touched Him were made whole.


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And He marveled because of their unbelief. And He went around the villages, in [a] circuit, teaching.


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And He called the Twelve and began to send them out by two and two. And He gave them authority over unclean spirits,


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<J>For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother. And, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death.</J>


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<J>But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban! (that is, A gift [to God], whatever you may profit by me)</J>


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<J>making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have delivered. And you do many such things.</J>


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<J>There is nothing from outside a man which entering into him can defile [him]. But the things which come out of him, those are the ones that defile the man.</J>


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And when He had entered into the house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable.


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<J>because it does not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and goes out into the waste-bowl, purifying all food?</J>


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And when they saw some of His disciples eating loaves with unclean hands, that is with unwashed hands, they found fault.


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<J>For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,</J>


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<J>thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:</J>


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And He arose from there and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered into a house and desired no one to know [it]. But He could not be hidden.


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For a woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of Him and came and fell at His feet.


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The woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race. And she begged Him that He would cast the demon out of her daughter.


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And she answered and said to Him, Yes, Lord, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.


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For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they immerse [their] hands with the fist, holding the tradition of the elders.


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And when she had come to her house, she found the demon had gone out, and her daughter lay on the couch.


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And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, He came to the Sea of Galilee, in the midst of the borders of the Decapolis.


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And He took him aside from the crowd and put His fingers into his ears. And He spat and touched his tongue.


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And He commanded them, that they should tell no one. But the more He commanded them, so much the more they proclaimed [it].


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And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.


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And coming from the market, they do not eat without immersing, and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the dippings of cups and pots, and of copper vessels, and of tables.


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Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat loaves with unwashed hands?


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<J>For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the dippings of pots and cups. And many other such things you do.</J>


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In those days, the crowd being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples and said to them,


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And the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking a sign from Heaven from Him, tempting Him.


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And [the disciples] had forgotten to take loaves, and they did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.


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<J>I have compassion on the crowd because they have now been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.</J>


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And after that He put [His] hands again on his eyes and made him look up. And he was restored and saw all clearly.


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<J>And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint in the way. For many of them come from afar.</J>


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And He began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.


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<J>For whoever will save his life shall lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for My sake and the gospel's, he shall save it.</J>


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<J>Therefore whoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man shall also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.</J>


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And His disciples answered Him, From where can a man satisfy these [with] loaves here in the wilderness?


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And He commanded the people to recline on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, and He broke and gave to His disciples to set before them. And they set [them before] the people.


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And they kept that saying within themselves, debating with one another what the rising from [the] dead [is].


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<J>But I say to you that Elijah has indeed come, and they have done to him whatever they desired, as it is written of him.</J>


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And immediately all the crowd, seeing Him, were greatly amazed, and they were running to [Him] to greet Him.


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And one of the crowd answered and said, Teacher, I have brought my son who has a dumb spirit to You.


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And wherever he seizes him, he dashes him. And he foams and gnashes his teeth and pines away. And I spoke to Your disciples that they should cast him out, and they could not.


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And after six days Jesus took Peter and James and John and led them up into a high mountain, apart by themselves. And He was transfigured before them.


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And they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, the spirit immediately convulsed him. And he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming.


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And oftentimes it has cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.


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And immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief.


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And [the spirit] cried out, throwing him into convulsions, and came out of him. And he was like one dead, so that many said, He is dead.


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And His clothing became shining, exceedingly white as snow such as no fuller on earth could whiten them.


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<J>Whoever receives one of such children on My name receives Me. And whoever receives Me does not [only] receives Me, but Him who sent Me.</J>


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And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out demons in Your name, and he does not follow us. And we forbade him, because he does not follow us.


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<J>For whoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you [belong] to Christ, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.</J>


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<J>And whoever shall offend one of [these] little ones who believe in Me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea.</J>


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<J>And if your hand offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched</J>


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<J>And if your foot offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame than to have two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched</J>


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<J>And if your eye offends you, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes to be cast into hell fire</J>


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And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good [for] us to be here. And let us make three tabernacles, one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


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<J>Salt [is] good; but if the salt becomes saltless, with what will you season? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.</J>


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And there was a cloud that overshadowed them. And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My beloved Son. Hear Him.


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And as they came down from the mountain, He commanded them that they should tell no one the things that they had seen until the Son of man had risen from [the] dead.


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Since many took in hand to draw up an account concerning the matters which have been borne out among us,


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And an angel [of the] Lord appeared to him as he was standing on [the] right of the altar of incense.


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But the angel said to him, Do not fear, Zacharias. For your prayer is heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.


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For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drink wine nor strong drink. And he shall be filled with [the] Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.


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And he shall go before Him in [the] spirit and power of Elijah, to turn [the] hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to [the] wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for [the] Lord.


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And Zacharias said to the angel, By what shall I know this? For I am old, and my wife is advanced in her days.


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And answering, the angel said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands before God. And I am sent to speak to you and to show you these glad tidings.


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even as those who from [the] beginning delivered to us, becoming eye-witnesses and ministers of the word,


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And behold, you shall be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things shall be performed, because you did not believe my words which shall be fulfilled in their time.


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And when he came out, he could not speak to them. And they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he was making signs to them, and remained speechless.


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So the Lord has dealt with me in the days in which He looked on [me], to take away my reproach among men.


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to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of [the] house of David. And the virgin's name [was] Mary.


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And the angel came in to her and said, Hail, [one] receiving grace, the Lord [is] with you. Blessed [are] you among women.


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And when she saw [him], she was troubled at his saying, and considered what kind of greeting this might be.


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it seemed good to me also, following all things accurately from the very first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,


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He shall be great and shall be called the Son of [the] Highest. And the Lord God shall give Him the throne of His father David.


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And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come on you, and [the] power of [the] Highest shall overshadow you. Therefore also that Holy [One] which will be born of you shall be called Son of God.


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And behold, your cousin Elizabeth also conceived a son in her old age. And this [is] the sixth month with her who [was] called barren.


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And Mary said, Behold the servant of [the] Lord. Let it be to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.


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And it happened as Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,


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and cried out with a loud voice and said, Blessed [are] you among women, and blessed [is] the fruit of your womb.


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And blessed [is] she who believes, for there shall be a perfecting of those things which were told her from [the] Lord.


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For He looked on the humiliation of His slave woman. For, behold, from now on all generations shall count me blessed.


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In the days of Herod, the king of Judea, there was a certain priest named Zacharias, of [the] course of Abijah. And his wife [was] of the daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elizabeth.


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And her neighbors and her kinsfolk heard how [the] Lord had magnified His mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.


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And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and were calling it Zacharias, after his father's name.


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And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.


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And fear came on all who lived all around them. And all these things were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.


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And all those who heard laid [them] up in their hearts, saying, What kind of child shall this be! And the hand of [the] Lord was with him.


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that He would grant to us, [that we], being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear


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And you, child, will be called the prophet of [the] Highest, for you shall go before [the] face of [the] Lord to prepare His ways,


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to give light to those who sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into [the] way of peace.


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And the child grew and became strong in spirit and was in the deserts until [the] day of his showing to Israel.


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according to the custom of the priests, it was his lot to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.


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And after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, And He sent them two and two before His face into every city and place where He was about to come.


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<J>And into whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, going out into the streets say,</J>


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<J>Even the dust of your city which clings to us, we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented a long while ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.</J>


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<J>The one hearing you hears Me, and he who despises you despises Me; he who rejects you [also] rejects Him who sent Me.</J>


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And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through Your name.


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<J>Behold, I give to you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the authority of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.</J>


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<J>Yet do not rejoice in this, that the [evil] spirits are subject to you, rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.</J>


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<J>All things are delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son will reveal [Him].</J>


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<J>For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen [them], and to hear what you hear, and have not heard [them].</J>


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And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?


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And answering, he said, You shall love [the] Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.


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<J>And by coincidence a certain priest came down that way and seeing him, he passed by on the opposite [side].</J>


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<J>And in the same way a Levite, also being at the place, coming and seeing [him], he passed on the opposite [side].</J>


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<J>And coming near, [he] bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.</J>


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<J>And going on the next day, he took out two denarii and gave [them] to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him. And whatever more you spend, when I come again I will repay you.</J>


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And as they went, it happened that He entered into a certain village. And a certain woman named Martha received Him into her house.


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But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she came to Him and said, Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.


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<J>But one thing is needful, and Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.</J>


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<J>And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things [shared] by them; for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Do not move from house to house.</J>


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<J>And into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you.</J>


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And it happened [as] He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught His disciples.


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<J>For everyone who asks receives. And he who seeks finds. And to him who knocks it shall be opened.</J>


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<J>For what father of you, [if] the son asks [for] bread, will he give him a stone? Or if [he asks] for a fish, will he give him a snake for a fish?</J>


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<J>If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give [the] Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?</J>


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And He was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it happened as the demon [was] going out, the dumb one spoke. And the people marveled.


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<J>If Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons through Beelzebub.</J>


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<J>And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast [them] out? Therefore they shall be your judges.</J>


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<J>But if I cast out demons with [the] finger of God, no doubt the kingdom of God has come on you.</J>


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<J>But when one stronger than he comes, he overcomes him. He takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and he distributes his arms.</J>


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<J>When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks through dry places seeking rest. And finding none, he says, I will return to my house from which I came out.</J>


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<J>And he goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in, they dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first.</J>


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And it happened [as] He spoke these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice [and] said to Him, Blessed [is] the womb that bore You, and [the] breasts which You have sucked.


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<J>For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of man be to this generation.</J>


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<J>The queen of the south shall rise up in the Judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, One greater than Solomon [is] here.</J>


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<J>The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the Judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, One greater than Jonah [is] here.</J>


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<J>No one, when he has lighted a lamp, puts [it] in a secret place, or under a grain-measure, but on a lampstand, so that they who come in may see the light.</J>


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<J>The light of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is sound, your whole body also is [full of] light. But when [your eye] is evil, your body also [is full of] darkness.</J>


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<J>Therefore if your whole body [is] full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be [full of] light, as when the shining of a lamp enlightens you.</J>


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<J>and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.</J>


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<J>But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over judgment and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to leave the other undone.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like unseen tombs and the men walking above are not aware of them.</J>


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<J>Truly you bear witness that you consent to the deeds of your fathers. For they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.</J>


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<J>Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they shall slay and persecute,</J>


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<J>so that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from [the] foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;</J>


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<J>from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, [who] perished between the altar and the temple. Truly I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.</J>


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<J>Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and you have hindered those who were entering in.</J>


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And as He said these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw [Him] out concerning many things,


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lying in ambush for Him, and seeking to catch something out of His mouth, so that they might accuse Him.


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<J>And he answering from inside may say, Do not trouble me. The door is now shut and my children are in bed with me. I cannot rise and give to you.</J>


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<J>I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise and give him as many as he needs.</J>


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<J>And I say to you, Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you.</J>


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<J>And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, [it] shall not be forgiven.</J>


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<J>And when they bring you into the synagogues, and [to] rulers and authorities, take no thought as to how or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say.</J>


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<J>And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room in which to store my fruits?</J>


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<J>And he said, I will do this. I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and I will store all my fruits and my goods there.</J>


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<J>And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid [up] for many years. Take your ease, eat drink [and] be merry.</J>


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<J>For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor anything hidden that shall not be known.</J>


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<J>But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?</J>


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<J>Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap, having neither storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you better than the birds?</J>


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<J>Consider the lilies, how they grow; they do not toil, they do not spin. And yet I say to you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.</J>


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<J>If then God so clothes the grass (which today [is] in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven) how much more [will He clothe] you, O little-faiths?</J>


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<J>Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light. And that which you have spoken in the ear in secret rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.</J>


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<J>For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you have need of these things.</J>


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<J>Sell what you have and give alms. Make for yourselves purses which do not become old, an unfailing treasure in Heaven, where no thief comes nor moth corrupts.</J>


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<J>And you yourselves be like men who wait for their lord, whenever he shall return from the wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.</J>


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<J>Blessed [are] those servants whom the lord will find watching when [he] comes. Truly I say to you that he shall gird himself and make them recline; and coming up he will serve them.</J>


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<J>And if he comes in the second watch, or comes in the third watch, and find [it] so, blessed are those servants.</J>


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<J>And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be dug through.</J>


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<J>And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.</J>


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<J>But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the male servants and women servants, and to eat and drink and to be drunk,</J>


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<J>the lord of that servant will come in a day when he does not expect, and at an hour when he does not know. And he will cut him apart, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.</J>


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<J>And that servant who knew his lord's will and did not prepare, nor did according to His will, shall be beaten with many [stripes].</J>


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<J>But he not knowing, and doing [things] worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few [stripes]. For to whomever much is given, of him much shall be required. And to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.</J>


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<J>But I will warn you of whom you shall fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear Him.</J>


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<J>But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am pressed down until it is accomplished!</J>


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<J>For from now on, there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.</J>


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<J>The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.</J>


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And He also said to the crowd, <J>When you see a cloud rise out of the west, immediately you say, There is a shower coming. And so it is.</J>


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<J>Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and the earth, but how [is it] that you do not discern this time?</J>


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<J>For as you go with your adversary to the judge, give pains in the way to be set free from him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into the prison.</J>


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<J>But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore do not fear, you are of more value than many sparrows.</J>


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<J>Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess Me before men, the Son of man also shall confess him before the angels of God.</J>


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And some were present at the same time reporting to Him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.


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And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together and was not able to be completely erect.


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And answering, the synagogue ruler, being angry because Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, said to the crowd, There are six days in which it is right to work. Therefore in them come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.


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<J>And ought not this [woman], being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound, lo these eighteen years, be loosened from this bond on the Sabbath day?</J>


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And when He had said these things, all His adversaries were ashamed. And all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him.


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<J>It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and threw into his garden. And it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of the air lodged in its branches.</J>


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<J>It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.</J>


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<J>Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.</J>


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<J>And once the Master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He shall answer and say to you, I do not know you; from where are you;</J>


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<J>then you shall begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You have taught in our streets.</J>


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<J>But He shall say, I tell you, I do not know you; from where you are. Depart from Me, all workers of unrighteousness!</J>


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<J>There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrust out.</J>


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<J>And they will come from the east and the west, and from the north and the south, and will recline in the kingdom of God.</J>


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<J>And behold, there are last ones which will be first, and there are first ones which will be last.</J>


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The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying to Him, Go out and depart from here, for Herod will kill you.


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<J>Yet I must walk today and tomorrow and the [day] following. For it cannot be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.</J>


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<J>Jerusalem! Jerusalem! the [one] killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her; how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen [gathers] her brood under the wings, and you did not desire [it].</J>


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<J>Behold, your house is left to you desolate. And truly I say to you, You will not see Me until it come when you say, Blessed [is] He who comes in [the] name of [the] Lord.</J>


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<J>Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were sinners above all men who lived in Jerusalem?</J>


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<J>And he said to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none. Cut it down, why does it encumber the ground?</J>


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<J>And answering, he said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and throw manure.</J>


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And as He went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, it happened that they watched Him.


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<J>But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher. Then glory shall be to you before those reclining with you.</J>


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<J>and you shall be blessed, for they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.</J>


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And one of those who reclined with [Him] heard these things, and [he] said to Him, Blessed [are] those eating bread in the kingdom of God.


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<J>And he sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, Come, for all things are now ready.</J>


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<J>And all with one [consent] began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, I must go and see it. I beg you, have me excused.</J>


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<J>And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I beg you, have me excused.</J>


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<J>And coming up that servant reported these things to his lord. And the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and the maimed, and the lame and the blind.</J>


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<J>And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges and compel [them] to come in, so that my house may be filled.</J>


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<J>If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his [own] life also, he cannot be My disciple.</J>


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<J>For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first [and] count the cost, whether he may have [enough] to finish it;</J>


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<J>lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him,</J>


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<J>Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not first sit down [and] consult whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?</J>


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<J>Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks [conditions] of peace.</J>


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<J>It is not fit for the land, nor for manure, [but men] throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.</J>


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<J>When you are invited by anyone to a wedding, do not recline in the chief seat, lest a more honorable [man] than you may be invited by him.</J>


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<J>And he who invited you and him shall come and say to you, Give place to this man; and then you begin with shame to take the last place.</J>


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<J>And the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of goods that is coming [to me]. And he divided [his] living to them.</J>


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<J>And not many days afterward, the younger son gathered all together and went away into a far country. And there he wasted his property, living dissolutely.</J>


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<J>And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land. And he began to be in want.</J>


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<J>And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country. And he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.</J>


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<J>And he was longing to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, and no one gave to him.</J>


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<J>And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger!</J>


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<J>I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you</J>


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<J>And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.</J>


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<J>And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you, and am no more worthy to be called your son.</J>


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<J>But the father said to his servants, Bring the best robe and put [it] on him. And put a ring on his hand and shoes on [his] feet.</J>


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<J>for this my son was dead and is alive again, he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.</J>


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<J>And his elder son was in the field. And as he came and drew near the house, he heard music and dancing.</J>


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<J>And he said to him, Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him safe and sound.</J>


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<J>And answering he said to [his] father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave [me] a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.</J>


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<J>But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fattened calf.</J>


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<J>It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.</J>


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<J>What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it?</J>


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<J>And when he comes home, he calls together [his] friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.</J>


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<J>I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.</J>


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<J>Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek carefully until she finds [it] ?</J>


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<J>And when she has found [it], she calls [her] friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.</J>


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<J>He who is faithful in [the] least is also faithful in much. And he who is unjust in the least is also unjust in much.</J>


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<J>Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true [riches] to you?</J>


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<J>And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give you that which is your own?</J>


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<J>No servant can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.</J>


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<J>The law and the prophets [were] until John. Since that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone is pressing into it.</J>


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<J>Everyone putting away his wife and marrying another commits adultery; and everyone marrying her who is put away from [her] husband commits adultery.</J>


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<J>There was a certain rich man who [was] customarily clothed in purple and fine linen and making merry in luxury every day.</J>


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<J>And he called him and said to him, What [is] this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.</J>


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<J>and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.</J>


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<J>And it happened that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich one also died and was buried.</J>


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<J>And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.</J>


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<J>And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.</J>


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<J>But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.</J>


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<J>And besides all this, there is a great chasm fixed between you and us; so that they desiring to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they pass over to us from there.</J>


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<J>for I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.</J>


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<J>And the steward said within himself, What shall I do? For my lord is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.</J>


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<J>And he said, No, father Abraham, but if one should go to them from [the] dead, they would repent.</J>


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<J>And he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even though one rose from [the] dead.</J>


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<J>I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses.</J>


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<J>So he called every one of his lord's debtors and said; to the first, How much do you owe my lord?</J>


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<J>And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.</J>


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<J>And he said to another, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he said to him, Take your bill and write eighty.</J>


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<J>And the unjust steward's lord commended him because he had done wisely. For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.</J>


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<J>And I say to you, Make friends by the mammon of unrighteousness for yourselves, so that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.</J>


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And He said to the disciples, <J>It is impossible but that offenses will come. But woe [to him] through whom they come!</J>


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<J>So likewise you, when you shall have done all the things commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants, for we have done what we ought to do.</J>


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<J>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.</J>


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<J>Nor shall they say, Lo here! or, behold, there! For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.</J>


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<J>For as the lightning which lights up, flashing from the [one part] under heaven, [and] shines to the [other part] under heaven, so also shall the Son of man be in His day.</J>


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<J>They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until [the] day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came and destroyed [them] all.</J>


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<J>So also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;</J>


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<J>but the day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed [them] all.</J>


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<J>Take heed to yourselves. If your brother trespasses against you, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.</J>


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<J>In that day he who shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise, he who is in the field, let him not return to the things behind.</J>


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<J>Whoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whoever shall lose [his life] shall preserve it.</J>


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<J>I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.</J>


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<J>And if he trespasses against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns again to you, saying, I repent, you shall forgive him.</J>


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<J>But which of you who has a servant plowing or feeding will say [to him] immediately after he has come from the field, Come, recline?</J>


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<J>Will [he] not say to him, Prepare something [so that] I may eat, and gird yourself and serve me until I eat and drink. And afterward you shall eat and drink.</J>


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<J>The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men [are], extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.</J>


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<J>And standing afar off, the tax-collector would not even lift up [his] eyes to Heaven, but struck on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner!</J>


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<J>I tell you, this man went down to his house justified [rather] than the other. For everyone who exalts himself shall be abased, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.</J>


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And they also brought infants to Him, that He might touch them. But when the disciples saw, they rebuked them.


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<J>Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no way enter into it.</J>


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<J>You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and your mother.</J>


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<J>For it is easier [for] a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich one to enter into the kingdom of God.</J>


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<J>who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and, in the world to come everlasting life.</J>


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And they did not understand any of these things. And this saying was hidden from them, nor did they know the things which were spoken.


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And they who were in front rebuked him that he should be quiet. But he cried so much the more, Son of David! Have mercy on me.


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<J>And he would not do so for a time. But afterward he said within himself, Though I do not fear God nor regard man,</J>


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And immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And when they saw, all the people gave praise to God.


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<J>yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, that she not wear me down in [the] end.</J>


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<J>And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?</J>


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<J>I say to you that He will avenge them speedily. Yet when the Son of man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?</J>


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And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others:


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And as they heard these things, He added and spoke a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God was about to appear immediately.


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<J>And He called his ten servants and delivered ten minas, and said to them, Trade until I come back.</J>


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<J>But his citizens hated him. And they sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this one to reign over us.</J>


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<J>And when he had received his kingdom and had returned, then it happened that he commanded these servants to be called to him; the ones to whom he had given the silver; so that he might know what each had gained by trading.</J>


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<J>And he said to him, Well [done], good servant, because you have been faithful in a least thing, have authority over ten cities.</J>


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<J>And another came, saying, Lord, behold, [here is] your mina, which I have kept in a handkerchief.</J>


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<J>For I feared you, because you are a harsh man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.</J>


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<J>And he said to him, I will judge you out of your own mouth, wicked servant! You knew that I was a harsh man, taking up what I had not laid down and reaping what I did not sow.</J>


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<J>And why did you not give my silver on the [bank] table, and coming I might have exacted it with interest?</J>


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<J>And he said to those who stood by, Take the mina from him and give [it] to him who has ten minas.</J>


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<J>For I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given. And from him who has not, even that which he has will be taken from him.</J>


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<J>But those who are my enemies, who did not desire that I should reign over them, bring them here and slay [them] before me.</J>


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And it happened as He drew near Bethphage and Bethany, toward the mount called Mount of Olives, He sent two of the disciples,


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And he sought to see Jesus, to see who He was. And he could not because of the press, because he was little in stature.


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<J>And if anyone asks you, Why are you untying [it]? You will say this to him, Because the Lord has need of it.</J>


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And they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their garments on the colt. And they set Jesus on [it].


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And when He had come near, even now at the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all [the] mighty works which they had seen,


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saying, Blessed [is] the King coming in the name of the Lord! Peace in Heaven and glory in [the] highest!


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And he ran in front and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him. For He was to pass through that [way].


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<J>For the days will come on you that your enemies will raise up a rampart to you, and will surround you, and will keep you in on every side.</J>


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<J>And they will tear you down, and your children within you, and will not leave a stone on a stone because you did not know the time of your visitation.</J>


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And He taught in the temple daily. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy Him.


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And Zaccheus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor. And [in] anything I accused anyone falsely, I restore [it] fourfold.


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And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.


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And the angel said to them, Do not fear. For behold, I give to you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.


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And it happened as the angels departed from them into Heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Indeed, let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing which has happened, which the Lord made known to us.


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And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as was spoken to them.


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And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, His name was called JESUS, [the name] called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.


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And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought Him to Jerusalem, to present [Him] to the Lord


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(as it is written in [the] Law of the Lord, Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord)


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and to offer a sacrifice according to that said in the Law of [the] Lord, A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.


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And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name [was] Simeon. And this man [was] just and devout, waiting for [the] Consolation of Israel. And [the] Holy Spirit was on him.


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And it happened to him, being instructed by the Holy Spirit, he was not to see death before he would see [the] Christ of [the] Lord.


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And he came by the Spirit into the temple. And [as] the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do according to the custom of the law concerning Him,


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And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, Behold, this One is set for [the] fall and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against


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(yea, a sword shall pierce through your own soul also), so that [the] thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.


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And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of [the] tribe of Asher. She was advanced in many days, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity.


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And she [was] a widow [of] eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, serving God with fastings and prayers night and day.


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And she coming in at that instant gave thanks to the Lord and spoke of Him to all those in Jerusalem eagerly expecting redemption.


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And when they had finished all things according to [the] Law of [the] Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.


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And Joseph also went up from Galilee to be taxed (out of [the] city of Nazareth, into Judea, to [the] city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of [the] house and family line of David).


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And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom. And the grace of God was on Him.


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And fulfilling the days, as they returned, the boy Jesus stayed in Jerusalem. And Joseph and His mother did not know.


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But they, supposing Him to have been in the company, went a day's journey. And they looked for Him among the kinsfolk and acquaintances.


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And it happened that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them.


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And seeing Him, they were amazed. And His mother said to Him, Child, why have you done so to us? Behold, your father and I have looked for you, greatly distressed.


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And He went with them and came to Nazareth, and He was subject to them. But His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.


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And she brought forth her son, the First-born, and wrapped Him, and laid Him in a manger-- because there was no room for them in the inn.


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And in the same country there were shepherds living in the field, keeping watch over their flock [by] night.


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And lo, the angel of [the] Lord came on them, and [the] glory of [the] Lord shone around them. And they were grievously afraid.


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And on one of those days, as He taught the people in the temple and proclaimed the gospel, it happened that the chief priests and the scribes along with the elders came on [Him].


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<J>And in season he sent a servant to the vinedressers, so that they should give him the fruit of the vineyard. But the vinedressers beat him and sent [him] away empty.</J>


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<J>And again he sent another servant. And they also beat him and treated [him] shamefully, and sent [him] away empty.</J>


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<J>And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that they will respect [him] when they see him.</J>


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<J>But when the vinedressers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir! Come, let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours.</J>


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<J>So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed [him]. What then shall the lord of the vineyard do to them?</J>


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<J>Whoever shall fall on that Stone shall be broken, but on whomever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.</J>


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And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on Him the same hour. And [they] feared the people, for they perceived that He had spoken this parable against them.


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And they spoke to Him, saying, Tell us, by what authority do you do these things? Or who is he who gave you this authority?


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And they watched and sent forth spies, pretending themselves to be righteous men, so that they might seize upon a word of His, that they might deliver Him in this way to the power and authority of the governor.


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And they asked Him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly, and do not accept the person of anyone, but truly teach the way of God.


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And they could not take hold of His words before the people. And they marveled at His answer and were silent.


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And certain of the Sadducees came, those speaking against a resurrection, [that it was] not to be. And they asked Him,


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saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If anyone's brother dies, having a wife, and if he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.


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<J>but they who shall be counted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from [the] dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage.</J>


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<J>Nor can they die [any] more, for they are equal to the angels, and are the sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection.</J>


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<J>But that the dead are raised, even Moses pointed out at the Bush, when he called [the] Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.</J>


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<J>Even David himself says in [the] Book of Psalms, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand</J>


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<J>Beware of the scribes who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at the feasts;</J>


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<J>who devour widows' houses, and make long prayers for a show; the same shall receive a more severe condemnation.</J>


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But if we say, From men, then all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.


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<J>And great earthquakes shall be in different places, and famines and plagues. And there shall be terrors and great signs from Heaven.</J>


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<J>But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute [you], delivering [you] up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for My name's sake.</J>


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<J>For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.</J>


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<J>And you shall be betrayed also by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends. And they will cause [some] of you to be put to death.</J>


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<J>And let those in Judea flee to the mountains. And those in its midst, let them go out. And those in the open spaces, let them not go into her.</J>


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<J>But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.</J>


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<J>And they shall fall by [the] sword's edge. And shall be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the nations until [the] times of [the] nations is fulfilled.</J>


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<J>And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars. And on the earth [will be] anxiety of nations with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;</J>


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<J>men fainting from fear, and expecting those things which have come on the earth. For the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.</J>


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<J>And when these things begin to happen, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near.</J>


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<J>Truly I say to you, This generation shall not pass away until all [these] things are fulfilled.</J>


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<J>And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;</J>


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<J>Watch therefore, praying in every season that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things which shall occur, and to stand before the Son of man.</J>


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And [in] the days He was teaching in the temple. And [in] the nights He went out, and lodged in the mount called [the Mount] of Olives.


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<J>For all these have cast in to the offerings of God from their abundance, but out of her poverty she has cast [in] all the living she had.</J>


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<J>[As to] these things which you see, days will come in which there shall not be left a stone on a stone, which shall not be thrown down.</J>


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And they asked Him, saying, Teacher, but when shall these things be? And what [shall be] the sign when these things are about to take place?


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<J>But when you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified, for all these things must first occur, but the end [is] not at once.</J>


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<J>And you shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room where I shall eat the passover with My disciples?</J>


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<J>For I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come.</J>


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<J>And truly the Son of man goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!</J>


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<J>But you [shall] not [be] so: but the greater among you, let him be as the lesser, and he who governs, as [one] who serves.</J>


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<J>For which [is] the greater; he who reclines, or he who serves? [Is] it not he who reclines? But I am among you as He who serves.</J>


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<J>that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.</J>


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And the Lord said, <J>Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired you, that he may sift [you] as wheat.</J>


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<J>But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not. And when you are converted, strengthen your brothers.</J>


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<J>For I say to you that this which is written must yet be accomplished in Me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors; for the things concerning Me have an end.</J>


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And going out, according to [His] custom, He went to the Mount of Olives. And His disciples also followed Him.


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saying, <J>Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.</J>


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And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly. And His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.


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And when He rose up from prayer and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping because of sorrow.


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And [as] He [was] yet speaking, behold a crowd! And he who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, went before them. And he drew near Jesus to kiss Him.


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And those around Him seeing what was about to occur, [they] said to him, Lord, shall we strike with the sword?


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<J>When I was with you in the temple daily, you did not stretch out your hand on Me. But this is your hour, and the authority of the darkness.</J>


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And laying hold on Him, they led [Him] away and brought Him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.


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But a certain slave-girl saw him as he sat by the fire and earnestly looked on him and said, This [man] was with him also.


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And after a little while another saw him and said, You also are of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not!


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And about an hour afterward, another confidently affirmed, saying, Truly this one was also with him, for he is a Galilean.


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And Peter said, Man, I do not know what you say. And immediately, while he still spoke, the cock crowed.


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And blindfolding Him, [they] struck Him on His face. And they asked Him, saying, Prophesy! Who is it who struck you?


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And when day came, the body of elders of the people, and the chief priests and the scribes, came together. And they led Him to the sanhedrin, saying,


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And they said, What need do we have for any witness? For we ourselves have heard it from his own mouth.


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And humiliating Him with his guardsmen, and mocking [Him] by putting luxurious clothing around Him, Herod sent Him again to Pilate.


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And that same day Pilate and Herod became friends with one another, for before they were at enmity [between] themselves.


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Pilate said to them, You have brought this Man to me as perverting the people. And behold, having examined [Him] before you, I have found no fault in this Man [regarding those things] of which you accuse Him;


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And they began to accuse Him, saying, We have found this one perverting the nation and forbidding them to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be a king, Christ.


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And he said to them the third [time], Why? What evil has He done? I have found no cause of death in Him, therefore I will chastise Him and let [Him] go.


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But they pressed [on him], with loud voices, requesting that He might be crucified. And their voices and those of the chief priests prevailed.


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And he released to them [the one] who had been thrown into prison for sedition and murder, for whom they had asked. But he delivered up Jesus to their will.


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And as they led Him away, they laid hold on one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. And they laid the cross on him, that he might carry [it] after Jesus.


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And a great multitude of people were following Him, and of women who also were bewailing and lamenting Him.


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<J>For behold, the days are coming in which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which did not suckle.</J>


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And when they came to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified Him and the criminals there, one on [the] right, and one on [the] left.


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And the people stood watching. And also the rulers with them, scoffing, saying, He saved others, let Him save Himself, if He is the Christ, the chosen of God.


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And an inscription also was written over Him in letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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But answering, the other rebuked him, saying, Do you not fear God, since [you] are in the same condemnation.


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And we indeed justly so, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this Man has done nothing amiss.


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And it was about [the] sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until [the] ninth hour.


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And when the centurion saw what had been done, he glorified God, saying, Truly this Man was righteous.


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And all the crowd arriving together at this sight, beholding the things happening, struck their breasts and returned.


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And all those known to Him stood at a distance; and [the] women, those accompanying Him from Galilee, [were] seeing these things.


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And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.


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this one was not assenting to their counsel and deed. [He was] from Arimathea, a city of the Jews; and he also himself waited for the kingdom of God.


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And he took it down and wrapped it in linen. And he laid it in a tomb that had been cut in the stone, in which no man had before been laid.


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And also women [were] following, who were accompanying Him out of Galilee, who watched the tomb, and how His body was placed.


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And they returned and [they] prepared spices and ointment. And they rested [on] the sabbath day according to the commandment.


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And knowing that He belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who himself was also at Jerusalem at that time.


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And seeing Jesus, Herod greatly rejoiced, for he had desired to see Him [for] a long [time], because he had heard many things about Him. And he hoped to see some miracle done by Him.


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And [on] the first of the sabbaths, while still very early, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.


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It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary [the mother] of James, and the rest with them, who told these things to the apostles.


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And Peter arose and ran to the tomb, and stooping down he saw the linens lying alone. And he went away wondering to himself at what had happened.


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And behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, it being [about] sixty stadia from Jerusalem.


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And one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered and said to Him, [Are] you only a stranger in Jerusalem and have not known the things which have occurred there in these days?


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and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to [the] judgment of death, and have crucified Him.


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But we had trusted that He was the One who was about to redeem Israel. And besides all this, today is the third day since these things were done.


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and when they did not find His body, [they] came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that He was alive.


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And some of those with us went to the tomb and found [it] even as the women had said. But they did not see Him.


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And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.


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But they constrained Him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is far spent. And He went in to stay with them.


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And it happened [as] He reclined with them, taking the loaf, He blessed [it], and breaking it, He gave to them.


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And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way and while He opened the Scriptures to us?


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And they rose up the same hour and returned to Jerusalem and found assembled the Eleven and those with them.


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And in the way they related the things happening, and how He had been known by them in breaking of the loaf.


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<J>Behold My hands and My feet, that I am He! Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see Me have.</J>


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And as they were much perplexed about it, it happened that, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.


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<J>and that repentance and remission of sins should be proclaimed in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.</J>


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<J>And behold, I send the promise of My father on you. But you sit in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.</J>


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And as they were afraid, and bowed [their] faces down to the earth, they said to them, Why do you seek the living among the dead?


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And in [the] fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the] Trachonitus country, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene--


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He answered and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. And he who has food, let him do likewise.


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And the soldiers also asked of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said to them, Do not forcibly extort anyone, nor accuse [any] falsely. And be content with your wages.


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And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts concerning John, lest perhaps he was the Christ,


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John answered all, saying, I indeed baptize you with water, but He who is mightier than I comes, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to loose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,


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whose fan [is] in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor and will gather the wheat into His storehouse. But He will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.


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But Herod the tetrarch (being reproved by him on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, and for all [the] evils which Herod had done)


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Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests-- the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.


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And it happened in the baptizing of all the people, Jesus also being baptized, and praying, and the heaven was opened.


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And the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily shape, like a dove on Him. And a voice came from Heaven, which said, You are My Son, the Beloved; I am delighted in You.


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And Jesus Himself was beginning to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) son of Joseph, [son of] of Heli,


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[son of] of Joanna, [son of] of Rhesa, [son of] of Zerubbabel, [son of] of Shealtiel, [son of] of Neri,


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[son of] of Methuselah, [son of] of Enoch, [son of] of Jared, [son of] of Mahalaleel, [son of] of Cainan,


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as it is written in [the] book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, The] voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of [the] Lord, make His paths straight.


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Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be straight, and the rough ways [shall be] made smooth.


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Then he said to the crowd that came forth to be baptized by him, O generation of vipers! Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?


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Therefore bring forth fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for [our] father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.


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And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.


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And Jesus, full of [the] Holy Spirit, returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness


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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. And a report went out throughout all the neighborhood concerning Him.


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And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And, as His custom was, He went in to the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.


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And [the] book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And unrolling the book, He found the place where it was written,


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<J>The Spirit of [the] Lord [is] on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to [the] poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to [the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,</J>


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forty days, being tempted by the Devil. And in those days He ate nothing. And they being ended, He afterward was hungry.


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And rolling up the book, returning [it] to the attendant, He sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on Him.


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And all bore witness to Him and wondered at the gracious words which came out of His mouth. And they said, Is this not Joseph's son?


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<J>But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land.</J>


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<J>But Elijah was not sent to any of them, except to Zarephath, [a city] of Sidon, to a woman, a widow.</J>


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<J>And many lepers were in Israel in the [time] of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.</J>


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And they rose up and thrust Him outside the city, and led Him up to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, in order to throw Him down.


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And the Devil said to Him, If you are the Son of God, speak to this stone that it might become bread.


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And in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon and cried out with a loud voice,


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saying, Let [us] alone! What is to us and to You, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know You, who You are, the Holy One of God.


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And they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, What a word [is] this! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.


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And rising up from the synagogue, He entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was being seized with a great fever. And they asked Him for her.


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And standing over her, He rebuked the fever. And it left her. And immediately she arose and served them.


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And the sun sinking, all, as many as had sick ones with different kinds of diseases brought them to Him. And laying hands on each of them, He healed them.


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And also demons came out of many, crying out and saying, You are the Christ, the Son of God! And rebuking [them], He did not allow them to speak; for they knew Him to be the Christ.


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And day coming on, going out, He went into a deserted place. And the crowds looked for Him and came to Him, and held Him fast, not to pass away from them.


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And the Devil, leading Him up into a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.


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And the Devil said to Him, All this power I will give you, and the glory of them; for it has been delivered to me. And I give it to whomever I will.


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And he brought Him to Jerusalem and sat Him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to Him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here.


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And it happened that the crowd pressed on Him to hear the word of God, He stood by the lake of Gennesaret.


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And it happened, as He was in a certain city, behold, a man full of leprosy! And seeing Jesus, he fell on [his] face and begged Him, saying, Lord, if You will, You can cleanse me.


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But the word about Him spread even more. And great crowds were coming to hear, and to be healed from their infirmities by Him.


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And it happened on one of the days, even He was teaching. And Pharisees and teachers of [the] Law were sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem. And the] power of [the] Lord was there, for the curing [of] them.


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And behold, men carrying, on a cot, a man who was paralyzed. And they sought to bring him in and to lay [him] before Him.


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And not finding a way by [which] they might bring him in through the crowd, going up on the housetop, they let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst, before Jesus.


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And He saw two boats standing by the lake. But the fishermen had left them and were washing [their] nets.


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And the scribes and Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, except God alone?


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And immediately he rose up before them and took up [that] on which he lay. And he departed to his own house, glorifying God.


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And they were all amazed, and they glorified God and were filled [with] fear, saying, We saw wonderful things today.


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And Levi made a great feast in his own house for Him. And there was a great company of tax-collectors and of others who were reclining with them.


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And He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, He asked him to thrust out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the people out of the boat.


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But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against His disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and sinners?


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And they said to Him, Why do John's disciples fast often and make prayers, and also [the disciples] of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?


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<J>And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskin will perish.</J>


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And answering, Simon said to Him, Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing. Yet at Your word I will let down the net.


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And they signaled the partners, those in the other boat, to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking.


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And seeing, Simon Peter fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.


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And it happened on the second chief sabbath, He went through the grain fields. And His disciples plucked the heads [of grain] and ate, rubbing [them] in their hands.


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And they were filled [with] madness, and talked with one another [as to] what they might do to Jesus.


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And it happened in those days that He went out into a mountain to pray, and He was spending the night in prayer to God.


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And when it was day, He called His disciples. And He chose twelve of them, whom He also named apostles:


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And coming down with them, He stood on a level place. And a crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon (who came to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases) were there;


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And certain of the Pharisees said to them, Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?


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<J>Blessed [are] you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed [are you] who weep now, for you shall laugh.</J>


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<J>Blessed [are] you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you off, and when they shall reproach [you] and shall cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of man.</J>


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<J>Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. For behold, your reward [is] great in Heaven. For so their fathers did according to these things to the prophets.</J>


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<J>Woe to you who are full! For you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now! For you shall mourn and weep.</J>


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<J>Woe to you when all men shall speak well [of] you! For so their fathers did to the false prophets.</J>


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<J>And to him who strikes you on the [one] cheek, also offer the other. And to him who takes away your garment, do not forbid your tunic also.</J>


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<J>Give to everyone who asks of you, and from him who takes away your goods, do not ask [them] again.</J>


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<J>For if you love those who love you, what thanks do you have? For sinners also love those who love them.</J>


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<J>And if you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks do you have? For sinners also do the same.</J>


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<J>And if you lend [to those] of whom you hope to receive, what thanks do you have? For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.</J>


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<J>But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing [in return]. And your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For He is kind to the unthankful and [to] the evil.</J>


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<J>Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven.</J>


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<J>Give, and it shall be given to you, good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over, they shall give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you measure, it shall be measured to you again.</J>


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<J>how he went into the house of God and took the showbread, and ate (and also gave to those who were with him) which it is not lawful to eat, except for the priests alone?</J>


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<J>And why do you look at the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but do not see the beam that is in [your] own eye?</J>


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<J>Or how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the splinter in your eye, when you yourself do not see the beam that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First cast out the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to pull out the splinter that is in your brother's eye.</J>


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<J>For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit, neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.</J>


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<J>For every tree is known by [its] own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.</J>


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<J>A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth the evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.</J>


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<J>He is like a man who built a house and dug deep and laid the foundation on a rock; and a flood occurring, the stream burst against that house and could not shake it; for it was founded on a rock.</J>


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<J>But he who hears and does not perform, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, on which the stream burst, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.</J>


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And it happened, also on another sabbath, that He entered into the synagogue and taught. And there was a man whose right hand was withered.


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And the scribes and Pharisees watched him [to see] if He would heal on the sabbath day, so that they might find an accusation against Him.


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And it happened on the next day, He went into a city called Nain. And many of His disciples and a great crowd went with Him.


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And drawing near the gate of the city, even behold, one having died was being carried out, an only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a considerable crowd of the city was with her.


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And fear came on all. And they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has risen up among us; and, God has visited His people.


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And John, calling near a certain two of his disciples, sent [them] to Jesus, saying, Are You He that should come, or do we look for another?


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And coming to Him, the men said, John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, Are You He who should come, or do we look for another?


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And in the same hour He cured many of infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits. And He gave sight to many who were blind.


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<J>But what did you go out to see? A man clothed with soft clothing? Behold, those in splendid clothing and being in luxury are in kings' palaces.</J>


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<J>This is [he] of whom it is written, Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You.</J>


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<J>For I say to you, Among [those] who are born of woman there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.</J>


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And all the people and the tax-collectors who heard [Him] justified God, being baptized [with] the baptism of John.


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And when he heard of Jesus, he sent the elders of the Jews to Him, begging Him that He would come and heal his servant.


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But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, not being baptized by him.


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<J>They are like children sitting in a market and calling to one another, and saying, We have played the flute to you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you did not weep.</J>


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<J>For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, He has a demon.</J>


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<J>The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!</J>


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And one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And going into the Pharisee's house, He reclined.


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And behold, a woman, a sinner in the city, knowing that He reclined in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster vial of ointment.


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And she stood behind [Him], weeping at His feet, and she began to wash His feet with tears and wipe them with the hair of her head. And [she] ardently kissed His feet and anointed [them] with the ointment.


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But seeing this, the Pharisee who had invited Him, spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what kind of woman [this is] who touches him, for she is a sinner.


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And coming to Jesus, they begged Him earnestly, saying that he was worthy, he for whom You give this;


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<J>There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and [the] other fifty.</J>


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<J>And they having nothing to pay, he freely forgave both. Then which of them do [you] say will love him most?</J>


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<J>You gave Me no kiss, but this woman, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss My feet.</J>


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<J>Therefore I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, he loves little.</J>


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Then Jesus went with them. But He being yet not far off from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him, Lord, do not trouble Yourself. For I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof.


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Therefore neither did I think myself worthy to come to You; but say a word, and my servant will be healed.


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For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers. And I say to one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does [it].


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And it happened afterwards, He traveled in every city and village, proclaiming and announcing the gospel of the kingdom of God. And the Twelve [were] with Him,


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<J>Those by the roadside are the ones who hear; then the Devil comes and takes the Word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.</J>


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<J>Those on the rock [are] the ones who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy. And these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.</J>


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<J>And those which fell among thorns are the ones who, when they have heard, go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of life, and do not bear to maturity.</J>


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<J>But those on the good ground are the ones who, in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word, keep [it] and bring forth fruit with patience.</J>


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<J>And no one lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel or puts [it] under a couch; but he sets [it] on a lampstand so that those who enter in may see the light.</J>


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<J>For nothing is secret that shall not be revealed; nor secret which shall not be known and come to be revealed.</J>


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<J>Therefore be careful how you hear. For whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have.</J>


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And His mother and [His] brothers came to Him. And they could not come near Him because of the crowd.


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and also certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities; Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven demons,


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And it was told to Him [by some], who said, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside desiring to see You.


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But as they sailed, He fell asleep. And a storm of wind came onto the lake. And they were being filled [with water] and were in jeopardy.


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And they came to Him and awakened Him, saying, Master, Master, we are perishing! Then being aroused, He rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm.


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And He going out onto land, He met a certain man out of the city, who had had demons a long time, and put on no clothes, nor stayed in a house, but among the tombs.


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And seeing Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him and said with a loud voice, What is to me and to You, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I beseech You, Do not torment me!


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(For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had seized him. And he had been kept bound in chains and in fetters, and he broke the bands and was driven into the deserted [places] by the demons.)


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and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to Him of their possessions.


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And there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain. And they begged Him that He would allow them to enter into them. And He allowed them.


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And coming out of the man, the demons entered into the pigs. And the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and were choked.


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And those feeding [the pigs], and seeing the thing, fled. And leaving, [they] reported to the city and to the farms.


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And they went out to see what had been done. And they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had departed sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.


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And all the multitude of the neighborhood of the Gadarenes were seized with a great fear, and asked Him to depart from them. And entering into the boat, He returned.


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And the man out of whom the demons had gone out begged Him, [desiring] to be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,


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And it happened when Jesus had returned, the people received Him. For they were all waiting for Him.


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And behold, a man named Jairus came, and he was a synagogue-ruler. And he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged Him that He would come into his house.


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For he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay dying. But as He went, the people thronged Him.


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came behind [Him] and touched the border of His garment. And instantly her flow of blood was staunched.


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And seeing that she was not hidden, the woman came trembling. And falling down before Him, she declared to Him before all the people why she had touched Him, and how she was instantly healed.


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He was still speaking when someone came from the synagogue-ruler, saying to him, Your daughter is dead, do not trouble the Teacher.


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<J>A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, the one fell by the roadside and was trampled; and the birds of the air devoured it.</J>


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And coming into the house, He allowed no one to go in, except Peter and James and John, and the father and the mother of the girl.


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And her spirit came again, and she arose immediately. And He commanded that [food] be given her to eat.


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And He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases.


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And returning, the apostles told Him all that they had done. And He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.


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But knowing [this], the crowds followed Him. And He received them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and He healed those who had need of healing.


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But the day began to wear away, and coming up the Twelve said to Him, Send the crowd away so that they may go into the villages and farms all around, and lodge, and get food. For we are here in a deserted place.


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And He took the five loaves and the two fish. And looking up to Heaven, He blessed them and broke, and He gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.


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And they ate and were all filled. And there was taken up twelve hand baskets full of fragments of that left over to them.


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<J>For whoever will save his life shall lose it, but whoever will lose his life for My sake, he shall save it.</J>


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<J>For whoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, the Son of man shall be ashamed of him when He shall come in His own and [in His] Father's glory, and that of the holy angels.</J>


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<J>But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God.</J>


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And about eight days after these sayings, He took Peter and John and James and went up into a mountain to pray.


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And as He prayed, the appearance of His countenance was altered, and His clothing [was] dazzling white.


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But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep. But fully awakening, they saw His glory, and the two men who stood with Him.


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And in their parting from Him, it happened that Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for [us] to be here. And let us make three tabernacles, one for You and one for Moses and one for Elijah; not knowing what he said.


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And as he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them. And they feared [as] they entered into the cloud.


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And when the voice occurred, Jesus was found alone. And they were silent, and told no one in those days anything which they had seen.


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And behold, a man cried aloud from the crowd, saying, Teacher, I beseech You, look on my son, for he is my only-born son.


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And lo, a spirit takes him, and [he] suddenly cries out. And [it] throws him into convulsions, with foaming, and with pain departs from him, bruising him.


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And as [he] was still coming, the demon violently convulsed and tore [him]. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child and delivered him again to his father.


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And they were all amazed at the majesty of God. But as all were marveling at all things which Jesus did, He said to His disciples,


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<J>Let these words sink down into your ears. For the Son of man shall be betrayed into [the] hands of men.</J>


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But they did not understand this, and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it. And they feared to ask Him of this word.


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And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out demons in Your name. And we prevented him, because he does not follow us.


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<J>And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.</J>


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And it happened in the fulfilling [of] the days of His taking up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.


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And [He] sent messengers before His face. And they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for Him.


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And seeing, His disciples James and John said, Lord, do You desire [that] we command fire to come down from Heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did?


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<J>For the Son of man has not come to destroy men's lives, but to save.</J> And they went to another village.


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And it happened as they were going in the way, one said to Him, Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.


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And another also said, Lord, I will follow You, but first allow me to take leave of those in my house.


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And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things happening by Him. And he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from [the] dead;


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And Herod said, John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see Him.


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These [are] the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite the Red Sea, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab,


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Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and, behold, today you [are] as the stars of heaven for multitude.


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May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times more than you [are], and bless you as He has said to you!


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Give wise and understanding men, and [those] known to your tribes, and I will appoint them rulers over you.


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And I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise and noted men, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.


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And I commanded your judges at that time saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger with him.


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You shall not respect persons in judgment. You shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment [is] God's. And the cause that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.


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And when we pulled up from Horeb, we went [through] all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.


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And I said to you, You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God has given unto us.


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Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up. Possess [it], even as the LORD God of your fathers has said to you. Do not fear, neither be troubled.


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And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search out the land and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.


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And they turned and went up into the mountain and came to the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.


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And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought [it] down to us, and brought us word again and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God gives us.


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And you murmured in your tents and said, Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.


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Where [shall] we go up? Our brothers have broken our heart, saying, We have seen there a people greater and taller than we [are]. The cities are great and walled up to the heavens, also the sons of the giants.


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And it happened, in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded him concerning them;


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The LORD your God who goes before you shall fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,


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and in the wilderness where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came into this place.


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who went in the way before you to search you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.


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Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,


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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he has trodden upon, and to his sons, because he has fully followed the LORD.


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Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Make him strong, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.


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And your little ones, who you said would be a prey, and your sons who in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in there. And I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.


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after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth in Edrei,


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And you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when each one of you had buckled on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill.


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But the LORD said to me, Say to them, Do not go up, nor fight, for I [am] not among you, you will be beaten by your enemies.


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So I spoke to you. And you would not hear, but rebelled against the command of the LORD, and went presumptuously into the hill.


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And the Amorites who lived in that mountain came out against you and chased you, even as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, to Hormah.


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And you returned and wept before the LORD. But the LORD would not listen to your voice, nor give ear to you.


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Turn and pull up [stakes], and enter the hill-country of the Amorites, and to all [its] neighboring places, in the Arabah in the hill-country, and in the low country, and in the south, and in the shore of the sea, the land of the Canaanites and of Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.


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Behold, I have set before you the land; go in and possess the land which the LORD has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.


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At that time the LORD said to me: Cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me into the mountain, and make an ark of wood.


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And I stayed in the mountain, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights. And the LORD listened to me at that time also. The LORD would not destroy you.


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And the LORD said to me, Arise, Go before the people, causing them to go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them.


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And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,


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Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens [belong] to the LORD your God, the earth also, with all in it.


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Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, you above all people, as [it is] today.


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For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, the mighty, and a terrible God, who does not respect persons nor take a bribe.


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He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger in giving him food and clothing.


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And I will write on the tablets the words that were in the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.


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You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve Him, and you shall hold fast to Him, and swear by His name.


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He [is] your praise, and He [is] your God, who has done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen.


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Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons. And now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.


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And I made an ark [of] acacia-wood, and cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and went up into the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.


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And He wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments which the LORD spoke to you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.


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And I turned myself and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me.


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And the sons of Israel pulled up [stakes] from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And Eleazar his son served in the priest's office in his place.


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From there they pulled up to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of water brooks.


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At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to Him, and to bless in His name, until today.


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Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers. The LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD your God promised him.


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Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge and His statutes and His judgments and His commandments always.


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For the land into which you go to possess it, [is] not as the land of Egypt from which you came out, where you sowed your seed and watered [it] with your foot, like a garden of herbs.


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But the land which you are entering to possess it [is] a land of hills and valleys, drinking water from the rain of heavens.


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It is a land which the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.


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And it will be, if you will listen carefully to My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,


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I will give the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.


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Take heed to yourselves that your heart may not be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and worship them,


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and the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and so that the land will not yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.


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Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your hearts and in your souls, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, so that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.


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And you shall teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.


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And you know today, for [I do] not [speak] with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His stretched-out arm,


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so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied in the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers, like the days of the heavens upon the earth.


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For if you will carefully keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him,


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then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater and mightier nations than you.


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Every place on which the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the furthest sea shall your border be.


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There shall no man stand before you, [for] the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon the face of all the land that you shall tread upon, as He has said to you.


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and a curse if you will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but will turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.


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And it will be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land where you go to possess it, you shall set the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Mount Ebal.


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and His miracles, and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land.


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[Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain across from Gilgal beside the plains of Moreh?


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For you shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.


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And [you know] what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how He made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and the LORD has destroyed them to today.


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and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance in their possession, in the midst of all Israel.


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Therefore you shall keep all the commandments which I command you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land where you go to possess it,


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and so that you may make [your] days longer in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land that flows with milk and honey.


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These [are] the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to do in the land which the LORD God of your fathers gives you to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth.


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But [when] you go over Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies all around, so that you live in safety,


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then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. There you shall bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.


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And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, your sons, your daughters, your men-servants, your female-servants, and the Levite that [is] within your gates (because he has no part nor inheritance with you).


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But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.


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However, with all your soul's desire you shall sacrifice and eat flesh in all your gates, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you, the clean and the unclean, one may eat, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.


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You may not eat inside your gates the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the first-born of your herds or of your flock, or any of your vows which you vow, or your free-will offerings or the heave offering of your hand.


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But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite within your gates. And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you put your hand [to].


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You shall completely destroy all the places in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.


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When the LORD your God shall make your border larger, as He has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires.


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If the place which the LORD your God has chosen to put his name there is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat in your gates whatever your soul desires.


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Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so you shall eat them. The unclean and the clean shall eat [of] them alike.


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Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood [is] the life. And you may not eat the life with the flesh.


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You shall not eat it, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, when you shall do what [is] right in the sight of the LORD.


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Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD shall choose.


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And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. And the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.


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Be careful to hear all these words which I command you, so that it may go well with you and with your sons after you forever, when you do the good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.


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When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations before you, where you go to possess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land,


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And you shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and burn their pillars with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and destroy their names out of that place.


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take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods that I too may do likewise?


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You shall not do so to the LORD your God. For every abomination to the LORD, which He hates, they have done to their gods; even their sons and their daughters they have burned in the fire to their gods.


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But you shall seek to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even to His dwelling place you shall seek, and there you shall come.


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And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the first-born of your herds and of your flocks.


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And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households in which the LORD your God has blessed you.


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You shall not do according to all that we do here today, each doing whatever [is] right in his own eyes.


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And you shall stone him with stones so that he dies, because he has sought to drive you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.


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If, in one of your cities which the LORD your God has given you to dwell in, you shall hear [one] saying,


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Men, the sons of Belial, have gone out from among you and have drawn away those who live in their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known,


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then you shall inquire and make search, and ask carefully. And behold, [if it is true], and the thing is certain, [that] such an abomination is done among you,


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you shall surely strike those who live in that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it completely, and all that [is] in it, and all the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.


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And you shall gather all its spoil into the middle of its street, and shall burn the city with fire, and all its spoil, every bit of it, for the LORD your God. And it shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.


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And let nothing of the cursed thing cling to your hand, so that the LORD may turn from the heat of his anger and show you mercy, and give mercies to you, and multiply you as He has sworn to your fathers,


