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And they bare their shame and all their transgression which they transgressed against me, in their dwelling upon their land confidently, and none terrifying.


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In my turning them back from the peoples, and I gathered them from the lands of their enemies, and I was consecrated in them before the eyes of many nations;


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And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God in my carrying them captive to the nations: and I collected them into their land, and I will no more leave from them there.


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And I will no more bide my face from them, for I poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.


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In the twenty and fifth year to our captivity, in the beginning, of the year, in the tenth to the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in this very day the hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he will bring me there.


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In the visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and he will set me down upon an exceeding high mountain, and upon it as the building of a city from the south.


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And he will bring me there, and behold, a man, his appearance as the appearance of brass, and a cord of flax in his hand, and a reed of measure; and he stood in the gate.


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And the man will speak to me, Son of man, see with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart to all which I cause thee to see; for in order to cause thee to see thou went brought hither: announce all which thou seest to the house of Israel.


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And behold a wall from without to the house round about, round about, and in the man's hand a reed of measure six cubits by the cubit, and a handbreadth: and he will measure the breadth of the building, one reed: and the height, one reed.


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And he will come to the gate which its face the: way of the east, and he will come up upon its steps, and he will measure the threshold of the gate, one reed the breadth, and the other threshold, one reed the breadth.


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And the chamber one reed the length, and one reed the breadth; and between the chambers, five cubits: and the threshold of the gate from the side of the porch of the gate from the house, one reed.


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And he will measure the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its projection, two cubits; and the porch of the gate from within.


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And the chambers of the gate the way of the east, three from hence, and three from thence; one measure to their three: and one measure to the projections from hence and from thence.


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And he will measure the breadth of the door of the gate, ten cubits; the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.


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And the bound before the face of the chambers, one cubit, and one cubit the bound from hence: and the chamber six cubits from hence, and six cubits from thence.


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And he will measure the gate from the roof of the chamber to its roof; the breadth, twenty and five cubits, door over against door.


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And he will make projections sixty cubits, and to the projection of the enclosure of the gate round about, round about.


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And windows closed to the chambers, and to their posts inside to the gate, round about, round about, and thus to the porches: and to the windows round about, round about inside, and to the post, palm trees.


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And he will bring me to the enclosure without, and behold, cells and a tesselated pavement made to the enclosure round about, round about: thirty cells to the tesselated pavement.


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And the tesselated pavement to the shoulder of the gates over against the length of the gates, the lower tesselated pavement.


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And he will measure the breadth from the face of the lower gate to the face of the enclosure within from with out, a hundred cubits to the east and to the north.


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And a gate whose face the way of the north to the enclosure without, he measured its length and its breadth.


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And its chamber, three from hence; and three from thence; and its post and its porch was as the measure of the first gate: fifty cubits its length, and its breadth five and twenty by the cubit.


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And its windows and its porch and its palm tree, as the measure of the gate whose face the way of the east: and they will go up into it by seven steps; and its porch before them.


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And the gate to the interior enclosure over against the gate to the north and to the east: and he will measure from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.


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And he will cause me to go the way of the south, and behold a gate the way of the south: and he measured its post and its porch according to these measures.


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And windows to it, and to its porch round about, round about, as those windows: fifty cubits the length, and the breadth, five and twenty cubits.


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And its going up, seven steps, and its porch before them: and palm trees to it, one from hence, and one from thence, to its post.


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And a gate to the inner enclosure the way of the south: and he will measure from gate to gate the way of the south, a hundred cubits.


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And he will bring me to the inner enclosure by the gate of the south: and he will measure the gate of the south according to these measures.


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And its chamber and its projection, and its porch, according to these measures: and windows to its porch round about, round about: fifty cubits the length, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.


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And the porches round about, round about, the length five and twenty cubits, and the breadth five cubits.


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And its projections to the enclosure without; and palm trees to its post: and its going up, eight steps.


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And he will bring me to the inner enclosure the way of the east: and he will measure the gate according to these measures.


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And its chamber, and its post, and its porch, according to these measures: and windows to it and to its porch round about, round about: the length fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.


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And its porch to the enclosure without; and palm trees to its post from hence and from thence: and its going up, eight steps.


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Its chamber, its post, and its porch, and windows to it round about, round about: the length fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.


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And its post to the court-yard without; and palm trees to its post from hence and from thence: and its going up, eight steps.


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And the cell and its entrance by the posts of the gates, there they will cleanse the burnt-offering.


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And in the porch of the gate two tables from hence, and two tables from thence, to slaughter upon them the burnt-offering and the sin and the trespass.


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And upon the Shoulder from without to the going up to the entrance of the gate of the north, two tables; and upon the other shoulder which was at the porch of the gate, two tables.


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Four tables from hence, and fear tables from thence, to the side of the gate; eight tables they will slaughter upon them.


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And the four tables for the burnt-offering, of cut stones, the length, one cubit and a half, and the breadth, one cubit and a half, and the height, one cubit: upon them they placed the instruments which they will slaughter the burnt-offering with them, and the sacrifice.


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And stalls one hand-breadth set up in the house round about, round about: and upon the tables the flesh of the oblation.


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And from without to the inner gate, cells placed in order in the inner enclosure which was upon the side of the gate of the north; and their faces the way of the south: one at the side of the gate of the east, the face the way of the north.


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And he will speak to me, This the cell whose face the way of the south, for the priests watching the watches of the house.


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And the cell whose face the way of the north, for the priests watching the watches of the altar: they the sons of Zadok drawing near from the sons of Levi, to Jehovah to serve him.


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And he will measure the enclosure, the length a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, quadrated; and the altar before the house.


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And he will bring me to the porch of the house, and he will measure the posts of the porch, five cubits from hence, and five cubits from thence: and the breadth of the gate three cubits from hence, and three cubits from thence.


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The length of the porch, twenty cubits, and the breadth, eleven cubits; and by the steps which they will go up to it: and pillars to the posts, one from hence, and one from thence.


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And he will bring me to the temple, and he will measure the posts six cubits the breadth from hence, and six cubits the breadth from thence, the breadth of the tent.


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And the breadth of the entrance, ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance, five cubits from hence, and five cubits from thence: and he will measure its length, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.


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And he went inside, and he will measure the post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.


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And he will measure its length, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, to the face of the temple: and he will say to me, This the holy of holies.


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And he will measure the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of the rib, four cubits, round about, round about to the house, round about.


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And the ribs, side to side, three and thirty times; and entering into the wall which was to the house to the sides round about, round about, to be holding, and they shall not be holding in the wall of the house.


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It was broad and turned round upwards, upwards to the sides: for the circuit of the house, upwards, upwards round about, round about to the house: for this the breadth of the house upwards, and thus the lowest will go up upon the highest to the middle.


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And I saw to the house the height round about, round about the foundations of the sides the fulness of a reed, six cubits the joining.


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The breadth of the wall which was to the side without, five cubits: and that remaining of the house the sides which were to the house.


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And between the cells, the breadth, twenty cubits round about to the house, round about, round about:


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And the entrance of the side to that remaining, one door the way of the north, and one door to the south: and the breadth of the remaining place, five cubits round about, round about.


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And the building which was at the face of the separation the side the way of the sea, the breadth, seventy cubits; and the wall of the building five cubits the breadth, round about, round about; and its length ninety cubit.


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And he measured the house, the length, a hundred cubits; and the separated place and the building and its walls, the length, a hundred cubits.


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And he measured the length of the building at the face of the separated place which was upon its back part, and its offsets from hence, and from thence, a hundred cubits, and the inner temple and the porches of the enclosure.


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The thresholds, and the windows closed, and the offsets round about to their three ever against the threshold, a board of wood round about, round about, and the earth even to the windows, and the windows being covered.


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To above the door and even to the inner house, and to without, and to all the wall round about, round about, in the inside and on the outside measures.


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And cherubs being made, and palm trees, and a palm tree between a cherub to a cherub: and two faces to the cherub;


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And the face of man to the palm tree from hence, and the face of a young lion to the palm tree from thence: being made to all the house round about, round about.


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From the earth even to above the entrance, the cherubs and the palm trees being made, and the wall of the temple.


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The temple glittering four-square, and the face of the holy place; the vision according to the vision.


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The altar of wood, three cubits the height, and its length, two cubits; and its angles to it, and its length, and its walls, of wood: and he will speak to me: This the table which is before the face of Jehovah.


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And being made upon them upon the doors of the temple, cherubs and palm trees, according to those being upon the walls; and thick wood upon the face of the porch from without.


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And closed windows and the palm trees from hence, and from thence, upon the shoulders of the porch, and the sides of the house, and upon the thresholds.


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And he will bring me forth to the enclosure without, the way a way of the north: and he will bring me to the cell which was over against the separated place, and which was over against the building to the north.


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Over against the twenty which were for the inner enclosure, add over against the tesselated pavement which was to the court without, an offset to the face of an offset in threes.


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And before the cells a walk, ten cubits the breadth of the inside, a way of one cubit; and their doors to the north.


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And the upper cells shortened, for the offsets will prevail above these, from the lower and from the middle of the building:


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For they were from threes, and no pillars to them as the pillars of the enclosures: for this it was contracted from the lower and from the middle from the earth.


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And the wall that was without over against the cells, the way of the enclosure without to the face of the cells, its length, fifty cubits.


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For the length of the cells which were to the enclosure without, fifty cubits: and behold, at the face of the temple a hundred cubits.


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And from under to these cells the entrance from the east, in his going to them from the enclosure without.


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In the breadth of the wall of the enclosure the way of the east to the separated place and to the face of the building, the cells.


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And the way before them as the appearance of the cells which were the way of the north, as the length so the breadth: and all their goings out according to their judgments and according to their entrances.


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And according to the doors of the cells which were the way of the south, a door in the head of the way, the way in the face of the wall suitable the way of the east in entering.


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And he will say to me, The cells of the north, the cells of the south which are at the face of the separated place, they the cells of the holy place, where the priests shall eat there, that draw near to Jehovah, the holies of holies: there shall they set the holies of holies, and the gift, and the sin, and the trespass; for the place is holy.


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On the priests coming in, and they shall go not forth from the holy place to the enclosure without, and there they shall set their garments which they shall serve in them; for they are holy; they shall put on other garments, and approach to that for the people.


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And he finished the measure of the inner house, and he brought me forth the way of the gate whose face the way of the east, and he measured it round about, round about.


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He measured the wind of the east with the reed of measure, five-hundred reeds, by the reed of measure round about.


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To the four winds he measured it: the wall to it round about, round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to separate between the holy to the profane.


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And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice as the voice of many waters; and the earth was illuminated from his glory.


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And as the appearance of the vision which I saw, as the vision which I saw in my coming to destroy the city: and the visions as the vision which I saw at the river Chebar; and I shall fall upon my face.


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And the glory of Jehovah came into the house the way of the gate which its face the way of the east.


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And the spirit will lift me up and bring me to the inner enclosure; behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house.


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And he will say to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I shall dwell there in the midst of the sons of Israel forever, and the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, they and their kings by their fornication, and by the corpses of their kings in their heights.


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In their giving their threshold with my thresholds, and their door-post by my door-posts, and the wall between me and between them, and they defiled my holy name with their abominations which they did: and consuming them in my anger.


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Now they shall put far off their fornication, and the corpses of their kings, from me, and I dwelt in the midst of them forever.


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Thou son of man, announce to the house of Israel, the house, and they shall be ashamed of their iniquities: and measure the structure.


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And if they were ashamed of all which they did, the form of the house and its structure, and all its goings out and all its comings in, and all its forms, and all its laws, and all its forms, and all its instructions, make known to them: and write before their eyes, and they shall watch all its instructions and all its laws, and do them.


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This the instruction of the house: Upon the head of the mountain all its bound round about, round about, holy of holies. Behold, this the instruction of the house.


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And these the measures of the altar by cubits: a cubit, a cubit and a hand-breadth; and the bosom, a cubit and a cubit the breadth; and its bound to its lip round about, one span: and this the back of the altar.


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And from the bosom of the earth even to the lower terrace, two cubits, and the breadth, one cubit; and from the small terrace even to the great terrace, four cubits, and the breadth, the cubit.


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And the terrace, fourteen the length by fourteen the breadth, to its four squares; and the bound round about it half a cubit, and the bosom to it, a cubit round about; and its steps turning east.


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And he will say to me, Son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah: These the laws of the altar in the day of Making it to bring up a burnt-offering upon it, and to sprinkle upon it blood.


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And give to the priests the Levites, those which are of the seed of Zadok, drawing near to me, says the Lord Jehovah, to save me, a bullock, son of a cow, for sin.


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And take from its blood and give upon its four horns, and to the four corners of the terrace, and to the border round about: and cleanse it and expiate it.


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And take the bullock of the sin and burn it in the appointed place of the house from without to the holy place.


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And in the second day thou shalt bring near a kid of the goats complete for sin; and cleanse ye the altar as they cleansed for the bullock.


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In thy finishing the cleansing thou shalt bring a bullock, son of a cow, blameless, and a blameless ram front the sheep;


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And bring them near before Jehovah, and the priests cast salt upon them, and they brought them up a burnt-offering to Jehovah.


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Seven days thou shalt do a he goat of sin for the day, and a bullock, son of a cow, and a ram from the sheep, blameless, shall they do.


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And they finished the days, and it was in the eighth day and forward, the priests will do your burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace: and I received you into favor, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And he turned me back the way of the gate of the holy place with out, looking to the east; and it was shut.


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And Jehovah will say to me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and a man shall not come in through it; because Jehovah God of Israel came in through it and it was shut.


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The prince, the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before Jehovah; from the way of the porch of the gate he will go in, and from its way he went out.


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And he will bring me the way of the gate of the north to the face of the house: and I shall see, and behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah: and I shall fall upon my face.


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And Jehovah will say to me, Son of man, set thy heart, and see with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all which I speak to thee concerning all the laws of the house of Jehovah, and concerning all its instructions; and set thy heart to the entering of the house, and all the goings out of the holy place.


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And thou shalt say to the perverse to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you of all your abominations, O house of Israel.


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In your bringing in the sons of the stranger, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in my holy place to profane it, my house, in your bringing near my bread, the fat and the blood, and they will break my covenant by all your abominations.


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And ye watched not the watches of my holy place: and ye set for watching of my watches in my holy place for yourselves.


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Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Every son of the stranger, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, shall not come in to my holy place, to every son of the stranger which is the midst of the sons of Israel.


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But the Levites who went far off from me, in the going astray of Israel who went astray from me after the blocks; and they bare their iniquity.


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And they were serving in my holy place, reviewing at the gates of the house, and serving the house: they shall slaughter the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to serve them.


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Because they will serve them before their blocks, and they were to the house of Israel for a stumbling block of iniquity; for this I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Jehovah, and they bare their iniquity.


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And they shall not come near to me to be priest to me, to come near all my holy things, to the holies of holies: and they bare their shame, and their abominations which they did.


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And I gave them watchers of the watches of the house for all its service, and for all which shall be done in it.


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And the priests the Levites, sons of Zadok, who watched the watches of my holy place in the going astray of the sons of Israel from me, they shall draw near to me to serve me, and they stood before me to bring near to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Jehovah:


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They shall come into my holy place, and they shall draw near to my table, to serve me; and they watched my watches.


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And it was in their going in to the gates of the inner enclosure they shall put on linen garments; and wool shall not come up upon them in their serving in the gates of the inner enclosure, and the house.


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And linen turbans shall be upon their heads, and linen drawers shall be upon their loins; and they shall not be girded with sweat.


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And in their going forth to the enclosure without, to the enclosure to the people, they shall lay off their garments which they serve in them, and set them in the cells of the holy place, and put on other garments; and they shall not consecrate the people in their garments.


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And they Shall not take a widow and her thrust away, to them for wives: but virgins from the seed of the house of Israel, and a widow which shall be a widow from a priest, shall they take.


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And they shall point out to my people between the holy to the profane, and they shall cause them to know between the unclean to the clean.


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And upon contention they shall stand to judge in my judgments, and they judged: and my instructions and my laws in all my appointments, they shall watch; and my Sabbaths shall they consecrate.


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And to a dead man they shall not come to be defiled: but for father and for mother, and for son and for daughter, for brother, for sister who was not to a husband, they shall be defiled.


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And in the day of his going into the holy place, to the inner court he serve in the holy place, he shall bring near his sin, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And it was to them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance: and a possession ye shall not give to there in Israel: I am their possession.


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The gift and the sin and the trespass shall they eat; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be to them.


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And the first of all the first-fruits of all, and every oblation of all from all your oblations, shall be for the priests: and the first of your grouts ye shall give to the priest to cause blessing to rest upon thy house.


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And in your causing the land to fall in inheritance, ye shall lift up an oblation to Jehovah, holiness from the land: the length, five and twenty thousand the length; and the breadth, ten thousand: it is holy in all its bounds round about.


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There shall be from this to the holy place five hundred, by five being square round about; and fifty cubits the area to it round about.


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And from this measure thou shalt measure the length, five and twenty thousand, and the breadth, ten thousand: and in it shall be the holy plate, the holy of holies.


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A holy place from the land this shall be to the priests serving the holy place drawing near to serve Jehovah: and it was to them a place for their houses and a holy place for the holy place.


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And five and twenty thousand the length, and ten thousand the breadth, shall be to the Levites serving the house to them for a possession of twenty cells.


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And ye shall give the possession of the city, five thousand the breadth, and the length, five and twenty thousand, over against the oblation of the holy place: it shall be to all the house of Israel.


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And for the prince from this, and from this to the oblation of the holy place, and to the possession of the city, at the face of the oblation of the holy place, and at the face of the possession of the city from the side of the sea, the ass, and from the side of the east to the east: and the length over against one of the portions from the bound of the sea to the bound of the east,


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In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.


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Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you, O princes of Israel: remove ye violence and oppression, and do judgment and justice, lift up your expulsions from off my people, says the Lord Jehovah.


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The ephah and the bath shall be one measure, for the bath to lift up the tenth of the homer, and the ephah the tenth of the homer: to the homer shall it be from its measure.


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And the shekel twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels the maneh shall be to you.


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This the oblation which ye shall lift up: the sixth of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and give the sixth of an ephah of an homer of barley.


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And the law of oil, the bath of oil, the tenth of the bath from the cor, ten baths the homer, for ten baths are the homer.


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And one sheep from the flock out of two hundred, out of the well watered region of Israel, for a gift and for the burnt-offering, and for the peace to expiate for them, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And for the prince it shall be the burnt-offerings, and the gift, and the libation, in the festivals and in the new moons, and in the Sabbaths, and in all the appointments of the house of Israel: he shall do the sin, and the gift, and the burnt-offering, and the peace to expiate for the house of Israel.


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Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the first, in one to the month, thou shalt take a bullock, son of a cow, blameless, and cleanse the holy place:


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And the priest took of the blood of the sin and gave upon the door-posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the terrace, to the altar and upon the door-posts of the gate of the inner enclosure.


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And thus shalt thou do in the seventh to the month, from each going astray and from the simple: and ye expiated the house.


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In the first, in the fourteenth day in the month, the passover shall be to you the festival of seven days; unleavened shall be eaten.


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And seven days of the festival he shall do a burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven rams blameless for the day, seven days; and the sin a he goat of the goats for the day.


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And the gift an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram shall he do, and oil, an hin to the ephah.


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In the seventh, in the fifteenth day to the month, in the festival shall he do according to these things, seven days, according to the sin, according to the burnt-offering; and according to the gift and according to the oil.


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Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner enclosure turning to the east shall be shut six days of work; and in the day of the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.


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And the prince went in the way of the porch of the gate from without, and he stood by the door-posts of the gate, and the priests did his burnt-offerings and his peace, and he worshiped upon the threshold of the gate, and he went forth: and the gate shall not be shut until the evening.


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And the people of the land worshiped at the door of that gate in the Sabbaths and in the new moons, before Jehovah.


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And the burnt-offering which the prince shall bring near to Jehovah in the day of the Sabbath, six blameless lambs, and a blameless ram.


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And the gift an ephah to a ram, a gift for the lambs the giving of his hand, and the oil, an hin to the ephah


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And in the day of the new moon, a blameless bullock, the son of a cow, and six lambs and a ram: they shall be blameless.


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And an ephah to the bullock and an ephah to a ram shall he do the gift, and to the lambs, according as his hand shall attain, and the oil, an hin to the ephah.


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And in the going in of the prince he shall go in the way of the porch of the gate, and in its way he shall go forth.


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And In the going in of the people of the land before Jehovah in the appointments, he going in the way of the gate of the north to worship, shall come forth the way of the gate of the south; and he going in the way of the gate of the south, shall come forth the way of the gate of the north: he shall not turn back the way which he came in it, but he shall come forth opposite to it.


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And the prince in the midst of them, in their going in, shall go in; and in their going forth, his going forth.


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And in the festivals and in the appointments the gift shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs the giving of his hand, and the oil, an bin to the ephah.


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And when the prince shall do a voluntary gift of a burnt-offering or peace a voluntary gift to Jehovah, and he opened to him the gate turning to the east, and he did his burnt-offering and his peace according as he will do in the day of the Sabbath: and he went forth and shut the gate after his going forth.


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And a blameless lamb the son of his year thou shalt do for a burnt-offering for the day to Jehovah: in the morning, by the morning, shalt thou do it.


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And thou shalt do the gift for it in the morning by the morning, the sixth of an ephah, and the oil, the third of an hin, to sprinkle the fine flour; a gift to Jehovah a law forever, continually.


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And prepare ye the lamb and the gift, and the oil, in the morning, by the morning, a burnt-offering continually.


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Thus said the Lord Jehovah: If the prince shall give a gift to a man of his sons, of his inheritance, it shall be to his sons; this their possession by inheritance.


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And if he shall give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, and it was to him until the year of liberty; and it turned back to the prince: but his inheritance his sons'; to them it shall be.


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And the prince shall not take of the inheritance of the people to oppress them, from their possession; from his possession he shall cause his sons to inherit, so that my people shall not be scattered each from his possession.


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And he will bring me through the entrance which is by the shoulder of the gate, into the cells of the holy place, to the priests, turning to the north: and behold, there a place upon the two thighs of the sea.


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And he will say to me, This the place where the priests shall boil there the trespass and the sin, where they shall cook the gift; not to bring forth to the enclosure without to consecrate the people.


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And he will bring me forth to the enclosure without, and he will cause me to pass through to the four angles of the enclosure; and behold, an enclosure in an angle of the enclosure; an enclosure in an angle of the enclosure.


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In the four angles of the enclosure, enclosures shut up, forty the length and thirty the breadth: one measure to these four angles.


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And a wall round about in them, round about to them four, and boiling places made from under the walls round about.


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And he will say to me, These the house of those boiling where those serving the house shall boil there the sacrifice of the people.


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And he will turn me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters coming forth from under the threshold of the house to the east: for the face of the house eastward, and the waters coming down from under from the right shoulder of the house, from the south to the altar.


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And he will bring me forth the way of the gate of the north; and he will turn me round the way without to the gate without the way looking to the east; and behold, waters flowing from the right shoulder.


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And in the going forth of the man eastward, and the line in his hand, and he will measure a thousand by the cubit, and he will cause me to pass through the waters; the waters of the soles.


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And he will measure a thousand, and he will cause me to pass through the waters; the waters of the knees. And he will measure a thousand, and cause me to pass through; the Waters of the loins.


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And he will measure a thousand, a torrent which I shall not be able to pass through: for the waters rose, waters of swimming, a torrent which shall not be passed through.


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And he will say to me, Didst thou see, son of man? And he will cause me to go, and he will turn me back upon the lip of the torrent.


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And he will say to me, These waters going forth to the circuit of the east, and they went down to Arabia and came into the sea: being brought forth to the sea and the waters were healed.


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And it was every living soul that shall creep, to all where the two torrents shall come there, shall live: and there was very many fish, because these waters came there: and they shall be healed and all lived where the torrent shall come there.


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And it was the fisherman shall stand upon it from the fountain of the kid, even to the fountain of the two calves; they shall be a spreading for nets; their fish shall be according to its kind as the fish of the great sea very many.


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And upon the torrent shall come up upon its lip, from hence and from thence, every tree of food, its leaf shall not fade, and its fruit shall not be consumed: for its months it shall bear early fruit, for its waters from the holy place they come forth: and its fruits were for food and its leaf for medicine.


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Thus said the Lord Jehovah: This the bound by which ye shall inherit the land for the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph two portions.


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And ye inherited it, each as his brother: which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land fell to you in inheritance.


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And this the bound of the land to the side of the north from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, to go to Zedad.


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Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the bound of Damascus and between the bound of Hamath; the middle enclosure which is to the bound of Hauran.


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And the bound from the sea was the enclosure of fountains, the hound of Damascus, and the north northward, and the bound of Hamath: And the side of the north.


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And the side of the east from between Hauran and from between Damascus, and from between Gilead and from between the land of Israel, Jordan, from the bound to the east sea shall ye measure: and the east side.


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And the south side southward from Tamar even to the waters of contradiction in Kadesh, the torrent to the the great sea: and the south side south


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And the side of the sea the great sea from the bound, even to over against the entrance of Hamath. This the side of the sea.


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And ye shall cause it to fall in inheritance to you, and to the strangers sojourning in the midst of you, who begat sons in the midst of you: and they were to you as the nation among the sons of Israel with you they shall fall in the inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.


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And it was in the tribe which the stranger sojourned with it there shall ye give his inheritance, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And these the names of the tribes: From the extremity north to the hand of the way of Hethlon to go to Hamath, the enclosure of the fountain, the bound of Damascus northward to the hand of Hamath, and they were to him the east side, the sea, Dan, one.


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And upon the bound of Judah from the side east even to the side of the sea, shall be the oblation which ye shall lift up, five and twenty thousand the breadth, and the length as one of the portions from the side east, even to the side of the sea: and the holy place was in the midst of it.


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The oblation which ye shall lift up to Jehovah, the length, five and twenty thousand, and the breadth, ten thousand.


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And to these shall be the holy oblation to the priests; the north, five and: twenty thousand, and to the sea, the breadth ten thousand, and eastward, the breadth ten thousand, and to the south, the length five and twenty thousand, and the holy place of Jehovah was in: the midst of it.


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To the priests being consecrated: of the sons of Zadok, who watched my watches, who went not astray in the going astray of the sons of Israel, as the Levites went astray.


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And the oblation from the oblation of the land shall be to them holy of holies to the bound of the Levites.


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And the Levities over against the bound of the priests, five and twenty thousand the length, and the breadth ten thousand: all the length five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.


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And they shall not sell from it and it shall not be exchanged, and he shall not cause the first-fruits to pane away, for it is holy to Jehovah.


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And the five thousand being left in the breadth upon the face of the five and twenty thousand, this profane the city for dwelling and for an area, and the city was in the midst of it.


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And these its measures: the side north, five hundred and four thousand, and the south side five hundred and four thousand, and from the side east five hundred and four thousand, and the side of the sea, five hundred and four thousand.


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And the area was to the city northward, fifty and two hundred, and south, fifty and two hundred, and east, fifty and two hundred, and the sea, fifty and two hundred.


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And the remainder in the length over against the oblation of holiness, ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand to the sea: and it was over against the oblation of the holy place; and its Produce was for bread to the servants of the city.


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All the oblation five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: four square ye shall lift up the oblation of holiness for a possession of the city.


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And the remainder to the prince, from hence and from thence to the oblation of the holy place, and to the possession of the city at the face of five and twenty thousand of the oblation even to the bound eastward, and the sea, upon the face of five and twenty thousand upon the bound of the sea, over against the portions to the prince: and it was the oblation of holiness; and the holy place of the house in the midst of it.


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From the possession of the Levites from the possession of the city, in the midst of that to the prince, it shall be between the bound of Judah and between the bound of Benjamin, to the prince it shall be.


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And upon the bound of Gad at the side south southward, the bound shall be from Tamar, the waters of contradiction of Kadesh, the torrent to the great sea.


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This the land which ye shall cause to fall for inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these their portions, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And these the goings out of the city from the side north, five hundred and four thousand the measure.


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And the gates of the city for the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates north; the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.


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And to the side east, five hundred and four thousand: and three gates; the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one;


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And the side south, five hundred and four thousand the measure: and three gates; the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulon, one.


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The side of the sea five hundred and four thousand; three gates; the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtah, one.


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In the third year to the kingdom of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel to Jerusalem, and he will press it.


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And Jehovah will give Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, and from the number of vessels of the house of God: and he will bring them to the land of Shinar the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.


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And the king will say to Ashpenaz the leader of his eunuchs to bring from the sons of Israel and from the seed royal, and from the nobles;


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Children whom not any blemish in them, and good of aspect, and understanding in all wisdom, and knowing knowledge, and understanding intelligence, and to whom power in them to stand in the king's temple, and to teach them the writing and tongue of the chaldees.


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And the king will allot to them the word of a day in its day from the king's dainties and from the wine of his drinking: and to nourish them three years, and from the end of three years they shall stand before the king.


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And the chief of the eunuchs will set names to them: to David, Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-Nego.


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And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself.


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And the chief of the eunuchs will say to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who allotted your food and your drink: for wherefore shall he see your faces gloomy above the children as of your age? and make my head guilty to the King.


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And Daniel will say to Melzar, whom the chief of the eunuchs appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,


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Prove now thy servants, ten days; and they shall give to us from seed herbs, and we will eat, and water, and we will drink.


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And our aspects shall be seen before thee, and the aspect of the children eating the king's dainties: and according to what thou shalt see, do with thy servants.


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And from the end of ten days their aspect was seen good and fat of flesh above all the children eating of the king's dainties.


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And Melzar will be taking away their dainties, and the wine of their drinking, and he gave to them seed herbs.


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And these four children, God gave to them knowledge and understanding in all writing and wisdom: and Daniel understood in every vision and dreams.


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And from the end of the days when the king said to bring them in, and the chief of the eunuchs will bring them in before Nebuchadnezzar.


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And the king will speak with them: and there was not found from all of them as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: and they will stand before the king.


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And every word of the wisdom of understanding which the king sought from them, and he will find them ten hands over all the sacred scribes, the enchanters which were in all his kingdom.


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And in the second year to the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, and his spirit will be moved, and his sleep was broken upon him.


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And the king will say to call to the sacred scribes, and to the enchanters, and to the sorcerers, and to the Chaldeans, to announce to the king his dreams. And they will come and stand before the king.


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And the Chaldeans will speak to the king Syriac: O king, live forever: say to thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.


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The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The word went out from me: if ye will not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, ye shall be made pieces, and your houses shall be set dung-hills.


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And if ye shall show the dream and its interpretation, ye shall receive from before me a gift and present, and great honor: therefore shove me the dream and its interpretation.


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They answered a second time, and said, The king will say to his servants the dream, and we will show its interpretation.


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And the king answered and said, Certainly I know that ye buy the time, for which cause that ye saw that the word went out from me.


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Enough if ye will not make known to me the dream, this one edict for you; and ye divided out the word of falsehood and this corruption to say before me, till that the time shall change: therefore say to me the dream and I shall know that ye will show me its interpretation.


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The Chaldean answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the dry land that shall be able to show the king's word: for which cause that every king, leader, and ruler, asked not a word like this to any sacred scribe, and enchanter, and Chaldean.


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And the word the king asked will be made rare, and there is not another that will show it before the king except the gods that their dwelling is not with flesh.


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For this cause the king was indignant and greatly angry, and he spake to destroy to all the wise of Babel.


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And the edict went forth and the wise men being killed; and they sought Daniel and his associates to be killed.


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At that time Daniel turned back counsel and reason to Arioch, leader of the king's executioners, that went forth to kill to the wise of Babel:


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He answered and said to Arioch the king's ruler, For what the severe edict from before the king? Then Arioch made known the word to Daniel.


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And Daniel went up and sought from the king that he will give time for it, and to show to the king the interpretation.


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Then Daniel departed to his house, and made known the word to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah his companions:


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And for seeking companions from before the God of the heavens concerning this secret: that Daniel and his companions shall not be destroyed with the rest of the wise of Babel.


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Then to Daniel in a vision of the night was the secret uncovered. Then Daniel praised to the God of the heavens.


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Daniel answered and said, For this the name of God being praised from forever and even to forever: for wisdom and strength are to him:


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And he changes the times and the seasons; removing kings and setting up kings; giving wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those knowing understanding.


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For thee, O God of my fathers, I praise and laud that thou gavest me wisdom and strength, and now didst make known to me what we sought from thee: for thou didst make known to us the king's word.


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For this cause Daniel went up to Arioch whom the king allotted to destroy the wise of Babel: he went and said thus to him: For the wise of Babel thou shalt not destroy: bring me up before the king, and I will show the interpretation to the king.


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Then with haste Arioch brought up for Daniel before the king, and said thus to him, That I found a man from the sons of the captivity of Judah that will make known to the king the interpretation.


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The king answered and said to Daniel, his name Belteshazzar, Is it to thee to be able to make known to me the dream that I saw, and its interpretation?


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Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret that the, king asked, not the wise men, the enchanters, the sacred scribes, the diviners, shall be able to show to the king;


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But there is a God in the heavens revealing secrets, and he made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what to be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, it is thus:


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Thou, O king, thy thoughts upon thy bed went up what to be after this: and he revealing secrets made known to thee what to be.


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And I not for wisdom that is in me more than all living is this secret revealed to me, but for the reason that they shall make known the interpretation to the king, and thou shalt know the thoughts of thy heart.


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Thou, O king, wert seeing, and behold, one great image. This image vast, and its brightness excellent; it stood before thee, and its aspect terrible.


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This image, its head of good gold, the breasts and arms of silver, and the bowels and thighs of brass:


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Thou wert seeing even till a stone was cut out not with hands, and striking against the image upon the feet of iron and burnt clay, and breaking them in pieces.


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At that time were beaten small at once, the iron, the burnt clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, and they were as the chaff of the threshing-floor of summer; and the wind lifted them up and all place was not found for them: and the stone striking against the image was for a great rock, and filled all the earth.


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Thou, O king, a king of kings: for the God of the heavens gave to thee a kingdom strong and powerful, and splendid.


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And in all that the sons of men dwelt, the beasts of the open field and the birds of the heavens he gave into thine hand, and gave thee power over them all Thou this head of gold.


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And after thee shall arise another kingdom lower than thee, and another third kingdom of brass, that shall have power over all the earth.


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And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because that iron beats small, and makes thin all: and as iron breaks all these, it shall beat small and break.


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And that thou sawest the feet and toes, part of burnt clay of the potter, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; and from the firmness of iron to be in it, for which cause that thou sawest iron mingled with earthen-ware.


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And the toes of the feet, part of iron, and part of burnt clay, from the end of the kingdom shall be strong, and part shall be cut asunder.


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That thou sawest the iron mingled with the earthen-ware, mingling for themselves with the seed of men: and not cleaving to them this with this, so as iron not mingling with burnt clay.


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And in their days that they are kings, the God of the heavens shall set up a kingdom that shall not be destroyed forever: and its kingdom shall be left to another people; it shall beat small and destroy all these kingdoms, and this shall stand forever.


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Because that thou sawest that the stone being cut from the rock not with hands, and it beat small the iron, the brass, the burnt clay, the silver and the gold: the great God made known to the king what to be after this: and the dream certain, and its interpretation faithful.


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At that time king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and prostrated himself to Daniel, and said to pour out a gift and sweet odors to him.


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And the king answered to Daniel, and said, of a truth that your God he is God of gods, and Lord of kings, and revealing secrets, that thou wert able to reveal this secret.


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Then the king multiplied to Daniel, and gave to him many a great gift, and gave him power over all the province of Babel, and chief of the prefects over all the wise of Babel.


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And Daniel sought from the king, and he appointed out over the business of the province of Babel to Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego: and Daniel in the gate of the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold; its height sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the valley of Dura, in the province of Babel.


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And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together to the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the chief judges, the treasurers, those skilled in law, the lawyers, and all the rulers of the provinces, to the drinking to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king set up.


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At that time there being gathered together the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the chief judges, the treasurers, those skilled in law, the lawyers and all the rulers of the provinces, to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king set up; and standing before the image that Nebuchadnezzar set up.


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In the time ye shall hear the voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery, the bagpipe, and all sorts of music, ye shall fall and prostrate yourselves to the image of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king set up.


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And whoever shall not fall and prostrate himself in the same moment, he shall be cast into a furnace of flaming fire.


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For this cause in that time that all peoples heard the voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery, and all sorts of music, all peoples, nations, and tongues, fell prostrating themselves to the image of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king set up.


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Thou, O king, didst set an edict, that every man that shall hear the voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery and the bagpipe, and all sorts of music, shall fall and prostrate himself to the image of gold:


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And whoever shall not fall and prostrate himself shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of flaming fire.


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There are men, Jews, that thou didst appoint over the business of the province of Babel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; these men set not an account to thee, O king: they served not to thy gods; and to the image of gold that thou didst set up they prostrated themselves not.


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At that time Nebuchadnezzar in anger and wrath, said to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. Then they brought these men before the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, Is it on purpose O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego, ye not serving to my gods, and to the image of gold that I set up, ye not prostrating yourselves?


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Now if ye being prepared that in the time that ye shall hear the voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery, and the bagpipe, and all sorts of music, ye shall fall and prostrate yourselves to the image that I made; and if ye shall not prostrate yourselves in the same moment, ye shall be cast into the midst of the furnace of flaming fire; and who that God that shall deliver you from my hands?


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Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego answered, and saying to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we need not to turn back to thee upon this word.


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If it is, our God whom we served will be able to deliver us from the furnace of flaming fire, and from thy hand, O king, he will deliver us.


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And if not, it shall be made known to thee, O king, that to thy gods we serve not, and to the image of gold that thou didst set up we will not prostrate ourselves:


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In that time Nebuchadnezzar being filled with wrath, and the form of the visage was changed to him against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego: he answered and said to heat to the furnace one seven times above that it was seen to be heated.


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To the strong, the strong of strength that were in his army, he said to bind to Shadrach, Mesbach, and Abed-Nego, to cast into the furnace of flaming fire.


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Then these men were bound in their wide trowsers, their tunics, and their mantles, and their clothing, and were cast into the midst of the furnace of flaming fire.


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For this cause, as the word of the king being severe, and the furnace exceedingly heated, these men that took up to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, the flame of fire killed them.


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And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell into the midst of the furnace of flaming fire, bound.


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At that time Nebuchadnezzar the king was grieved, and rose up in haste; he answered and said to the counselors, Did we not cast three men into the midst of the fire, bound? They answering and saying to the king, True, O king.


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He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose going about in the midst of the fire, and there is no hurt in them: and the aspect of the fourth like to the Son of God.


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At that time Nebuchadnezzar drew near to the door of the furnace of flaming fire; he answered and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, ye servants of God most high, go forth, and come. Then came forth Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, from the midst of the fire.


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And there being gathered together the satraps, the prefects, and governors, and the king's counselors, looking upon these men that upon their bodies the fire had no power, and a hair of their head was not singed, and their wide trowsers were not changed, and the smell of fire passed not upon them.


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Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, Blessed be their God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent his messenger and delivered for his servants that trusted upon him, and they changed the king's word, and gave their bodies that they will not serve and prostrate themselves to any god, except to their God.


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And an edict being set from me, That every people, nation and tongue, that shall say an error against their God, of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, shall be made pieces, and his house shall be set a dung-hill, because that there is no other God that shall be able to deliver according to this.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king to all peoples, nations and tongues, that dwell in all the earth, your peace shall become great.


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His signs, how many! and his wonders, how mighty! his kingdom, an eternal kingdom, and his dominion with generation and generation.


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I saw a dream, and it will terrify me; and the conceptions upon my bed and the visions of my head, will cause me to tremble.


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And an edict being set from me to bring up before me to all the wise of Babel, that they shall make known to me the interpretation of the dream.


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At that time the sacred scribes, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners, coming in: and I told the dream before them: and its interpretation they making not known to me.


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And even at last Daniel came up before me, whose name Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and the spirit of the holy gods in him: and before him I told the dream:


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O Belteshazzar, leader of the sacred scribes, for I knew that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and my secret pressed not upon thee; the visions of my dream that I saw, and its interpretation, say thou.


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And the visions of my head upon my bed; I was seeing, and lo, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height great.


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And the tree increased and was strong, and its height will reach to the heavens, and its sight to the end of all the earth:


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Its foliage beautiful, and its fruit great, and food for all in it: and the beasts of the open field will be shaded under it, the buds of the heavens will dwell in its boughs, and all flesh will be nourished from it.


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I was seeing in the visions of my head upon my bed, and lo, a watcher and holy one came down from the heavens;


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He called with strength, and thus he said, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its foliage and scatter its fruit: the beasts shall flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.


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But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the open field; and in the dew of the heavens it shall be wet, and its portion with the beasts in the green herb of the earth.


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Its heart shall be changed from man, and the heart of a beast shall be given to it; and seven times shall pass over him.


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The word by the decree of the watchers, and the saying of the holy ones is the question: for the reason that the living shall know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom that he will, he will give it, and he will raise up over it the low of men.


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This dream, I king Nebuchadnezzar saw. And thou Belteshazzar, tell the interpretation, because that all the wise of my kingdom not being able to make known to me the interpretation: and thou art able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.


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Then Daniel, his name Belteshazzar, was astonished for one moment, and his thoughts terrified him. The king answered and said, Belteshazzar, the dream and its interpretation shall not terrify thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream to those hating thee, and its interpretation to thine enemies.


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The tree that thou sawest that increased and was strong, and its height will reach to the heavens, and its sight to all the earth,


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And its foliage beautiful, and its fruit great, and food for all in it; under it the beast of the open field will dwell, and in its branches the birds of the heavens will dwell:


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It is thou, O king, who increased and wert strong: and thy greatness increased and reached to the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.


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And that the king saw a watcher and a holy one came down from the heavens, and said, Hew down the tree and destroy it; but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and brass in the tender grass of the open field; and with the dew of the heavens it shall be wet, and with the beasts of the open field its portion, even till seven times shall pass over him;


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This the interpretation, O king, and this the decree of the Most High, that came upon my lord the king:


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And for thee driving from men, and with the beasts of the open field to be thy dwelling, and they shall feed to thee grass as oxen, and wetting to thee from the dew of the heavens, and seven times shall pass over thee till that thou shalt know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom that he will, he will give it.


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And that they said to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom being sure to thee, from when thou shalt know that the heavens rule.


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Wherefore, O king, my counsel shall be pleasant to thee, and break off thy sins by justice, and thine iniquities in compassionating the poor; if it shall be a lengthening to thy peace.


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The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?


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Yet the word in the king's mouth, a voice from the heavens fell to thee, being said, O Nebuchadnezzar the king, the kingdom passed away from thee:


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And from men driving thee out, and with beasts of the open field thy dwelling: and they shall feed to thee the grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee till that thou shalt know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom he will, he will give it.


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In the same moment the word was added upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven out from men, and he shall eat the green herb as oxen, and from the dew of the heavens his body shall be wet till that his hair was increased as eagles, and his nails as birds'.


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And at the end of the days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes to the heavens, and my knowledge will turn back to me, and I praised to the Most High, and to him living forever, I praised and honored, whose dominion an eternal dominion, and his kingdom with generation and generation.


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And all the generations of the earth being reckoned as nothing: and doing according to his station in the army of the heavens, and the generations of the earth: and there is none that shall strike upon his hand, and say to him, What didst thou?


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In that time my knowledge will turn back to me: and for the honor of my kingdom, my splendor and my brightness will return to me; and my counselors and my nobles will seek to me: and I was established over my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.


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Now I Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor to the king of the heavens, that all his works are truth, and his paths judgment: and that they going about in pride, he being able to bring low.


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Belshazzar the king made great food for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he drank wine.


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Belshazzar said, in tasting the wine, to bring in for the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father brought forth from the temple that was in Jerusalem; and in them the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, will drink.


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At that time they brought the vessels of gold that were brought forth from the temple of the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and in them they drank, the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines.


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In the same moment went forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote before the candlestick upon the lime of the wall of the temple of the king: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote.


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The king's brightnesses changing, and his thoughts will terrify him, and the knots of his loins breaking forth, and his knees knocked this upon that.


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The king called with strength to bring up the enchanters, the Chaldeans and the diviners. The king answered and said to the wise of Babel, Whatever man that shall read this writing, and will show to me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and a necklace of gold upon his neck, and shall rule the third in the kingdom.


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Then came in all the king's wise ones: and they were not able to read the writing, and to make known the interpretation to the king.


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Then king Belshazzar being greatly terrified, and his brightnesses being changed upon him, and his nobles being perplexed.


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The queen, on account of the king's words and his nobles', came in to the house of drinking: the queen answered and said, O king, live forever: thy thought shall not terrify thee, and thy brightnesses shall not be changed:


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There is a man in thy kingdom that the spirit of the holy gods in him; and in the days of thy father, his light and his understanding and wisdom according to the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king thy father, set him up leader of the sacred scribes, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, the diviners:


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Because that an excellent spirit and knowledge, and his understanding interpreting dreams, and showing of enigmas, and solving knotty questions, was found in him, in Daniel whom the king set his name Belteshazzar: now Daniel shall be called, and he will show the interpretation.


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At that time Daniel came in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, Is it thou, Daniel, which is from the sons of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah?


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I heard concerning thee that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and his light and his understanding and excellent wisdom was found in thee.


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And now the wise ones, the enchanters, were brought in before me that they shall read this writing, and to make known to me its interpretation: and they were not able to show the interpretation of the word:


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And I heard concerning thee, that thou wilt be able to interpret interpretations, and solve knotty questions: now if thou shalt be able to read the writing, and to make known to me its interpretation, thou shalt be clothed in purple, and a necklace of gold upon thy neck, and thou shalt rule the third in the kingdom.


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At that time Daniel answered and said before the king, Thy gifts to be to thyself, and give thy presents to another; but I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.


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Thou, O king, God most high gave a kingdom and greatness and honor and splendor to Nebuchadnezzar thy father:


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And from the greatness that he gave to him, all peoples, nations and tongues, were trembling and fearing from before him: whom he was willing he killed; and whom he was willing, he was saving alive; and whom be was willing, he was setting up; and whom he willed he was humbling.


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And when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was strong for pride, he was brought down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took away his honor from him.


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And he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made level with the beasts, and with wild asses his dwelling: they will feed him with the green herb as oxen, and from the dew of the heavens his body will be wet; till that he knew that God the Most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and to whom he will, he will set up over it.


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And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.


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At that time Belshazzar said, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and a necklace of gold upon his neck, and they cried out concerning him, for him to rule the third in the kingdom.


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It pleased before Darius and he set up over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, whom to be over all the kingdom;


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And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was one: that to them the satraps giving to them account, and the king not for him detriment.


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Then this Daniel excelling above the presidents and satraps because that an excellent spirit was in him; and the king doing to set him up over all the kingdom.


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Then the presidents and satraps were seeking to find a pretext against Daniel from the part of the kingdom; and they will not be able to find any pretext and corruption, because that he was faithful, and any error and corruption was not found upon him.


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Then these men saying that, We shall not find against this Daniel any pretext except we shall find against him in the law of his God.


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Then these presidents and satraps ran together with tumult to the king, and saying thus to him, O Darius the king, live thou forever.


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All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and satraps, and counselors and governors, will counsel together to set up a statute of the kingdom, and to make strong an interdict that whoever shall seek a request from any God and man even to thirty days, except from thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.


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Now, O king, wilt thou set up the interdict, and sign the writing, that not to be changed according to the law of Media and Persia, which shall not pass away.


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And Daniel as soon as he knew that the writing was signed, went up into his house; and the windows being opened to him in his upper chambers before Jerusalem, three times in the day he kneeled upon his knees, and praying and praising before his God, for the cause that he did from before this.


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Then these men ran together with tumult and found Daniel seeking and making supplication before his God.


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At that time they drew near, and saying before the king concerning the interdict of the king, Didst thou not sign an interdict that every man that shall seek from any God and man even for thirty days, except from thee, O King, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The word is certain, according to the law of Media and Persia, that shall not pass away.


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At that time they answered, and saying before the king, That Daniel that is from the sons of the captivity of Judah set not up an account to thee, O king, and to the interdict that thou didst sign; and three times in the day he sought his requests.


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Then the king as soon as he heard the word, was greatly displeased with himself, and upon Daniel he set the heart to set him free: and even to the going down of the sun he was exerting himself to deliver him.


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At that time these men ran together with tumult to the king, and saying to the king, Know, O king, that the law to Media and Persia is, that every interdict and statute that the king shall set up is not to be changed.


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At that time the king said, and they brought Daniel and cast into the den of the lions; the king answered and said to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest to him continually, he will set thee free.


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And one stone was brought and set upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his signet ring, and with the signet ring of his nobles, that the will shall not be changed upon Daniel.


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Then the king departed to his temple and passed the night fasting: and he brought not his concubines before him, and his sleep fled from him.


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At that time the king will rise in the dawn in the morning, and in haste he departed to the lion's den.


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And in his drawing near to the den he cried to Daniel with a strong voice, the king answered and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, thy God whom thou servest to him continually, is he able to set thee free from the lion's den?


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My God sent his messenger and shut the mouth of the lions, and they hurt me not, for the cause that innocence was found to me; and also before thee, O king, I did no hurt.


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At that time the king rejoiced greatly for him, and to Daniel he said to be taken up from the den. And Daniel was taken up from the den, and any hurt was not found upon him, for he trusted in his God.


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And the king said, and they brought these men that ate up Daniel piece meal, and cast into the lion's den, them, their sons, and their wives; and they not down to the bottom of the den even till the lions had power over them, and they broke all their bones in pieces.


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At that time Darius the king wrote all peoples, nations and tongues, that are dwelling in all the earth, Your peace shall be great.


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From before me a decree was set forth that in every dominion of my kingdom to be trembling and fearing from before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and standing forever, and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed, and his dominion even to the end.


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Setting free and delivering, and working signs and wonders in the heavens and upon the earth, that set free to Daniel from the hand of the lions.


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In one year to Belshazzar the king of Babel, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: at that time he wrote the dream, telling the head of the words.


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Daniel answered and said, I was seeing in my vision by night, and lo, the four winds of the heavens rushing forth to the great sea.


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The first as a lion, and the wings of an eagle to it; I was seeing even till its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and upon its feet it was caused to stand as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.


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And lo, another beast, a second being like to a bear; and it rose up to one side, and three ribs in its mouth between its teeth: and saying to it thus, Arise, eat much flesh.


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After this I was seeing, and lo, another, as a panther, and to it four wings of a bird upon its back, and four heads to the beast; and dominion was given to it.


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After this I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, fearful, and strong and powerful exceedingly; and great teeth of iron to it, eating and beating small, and treading down the remainder with its feet: and it being different from all the beasts that were before it; and ten horns to it.


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I was considering upon the horns, and lo, another little horn went up among them, and three from the first horns were plucked up from before it: and lo, eyes as the eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.


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I was seeing even till thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days sat, his garment white as snow, and the hair of his head as pure wool: his throne a flame of fire, his wheels a burning fire.


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A river of fire flowed and went out from before him: thousands of thousands will wait upon him, and myriads of myriads will stand before him: the tribunal sat, and the books were opened.


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I was seeing at that time from the voice of the great words that the horn was speaking: I was seeing even till that the beast was killed and its body destroyed, and it was given to the burning fire.


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And the rest of the beasts they took away their power: and length in life was given to them for a season and time.


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I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, with the clouds of the heavens as the Son of man he came, and turning even to the Ancient of days; and they brought him near before him.


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And to him was given dominion, power and honor, and a kingdom; and all peoples and nations and tongues shall serve to him: his power an eternal power that shall not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.


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I drew near to one of those standing by, and I sought from him the truth concerning all this: and he said to me, and he will cause me to know the interpretation of the words.


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And the holy ones of the Most High shall take the kingdom and shall possess the kingdom even to forever, and even to forever of forever.


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Then I willed to speak the truth concerning the fourth beast that was different from all of them, exceedingly fearful, its teeth of iron and its hoofs of brass; eating, beating small, and treading down the remainder with its feet;


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And concerning the ten horns that were upon its head, and the other that went up, and three fell from before it; and this horn and eyes to it, and a mouth speaking great things, and its sight great above its companions.


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Even till that the Ancient of days came, and the judgment was given to the holy ones of the Most High; and the time extending and the holy ones possessed the kingdom.


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Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom in the earth, that shall be different from all kingdoms, and shall eat up all the earth, and shall tread it down and beat it.


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And the ten horns from this kingdom, ten kings shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be different from the first, and he shall humble three kings.


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And he shall speak words against the Most High, and he shall vex the holy ones of the Most High, and he will hope to change times and law: and they shall be given into his hand even to a time and times, and the dividing of time.


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And the kingdom and the power, and the greatness of the kingdom under All the heavens was given to the people of the holy ones of the Most High his kingdom an eternal kingdom, and all powers shall serve to him, and shall hear.


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Even to this the end of the word. I Daniel, my thoughts will greatly terrify me, and my brightness will be changed upon me: and I kept the word in my heart.


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In the third year to the kingdom of Belshazzar the king a vision was seen to me, I Daniel, after that being seen to me in the beginning.


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And I shall see in a vision; and it will be in my seeing, and I in Shushan the fortress, in Elam the province; and I shall see in a vision, and I was by the stream of strength.


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And I shall lift up mine eyes, and I shall see, and behold, one ram stood before the stream, and horns to him: and the horns high; and the one high above the second, and the high came up at the last.


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And I saw the ram pushing the sea, and north and south; and all the beasts will not stand before him, and none delivering from his hand; and he did according to his will, and increased.


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And I was considering, and behold, a he goat of the goats came from the west upon the face of all the earth, and not touching upon the earth: and the he goat a horn of vision between his eyes.


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And ha will come even to the ram possessing the horns, which I saw standing before the stream, and he will run against him in the wrath of his power.


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And I saw him coming near to the ram, and he will be exasperated against him, and he will strike the ram and break his two horns: and there will be no power in the ram to stand before him, and he will cast him to the earth, and will tread upon him: and there was none delivering for the ram out of his hand.


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And the he goat of the goats increased even greatly: and in his being strong the great horn was broken; and there will come up the vision of four underneath it to the four winds of the heavens.


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And from one of them came forth one horn of a little thing, and it will be great exceedingly to the south to the sunrisings, and to the glories.


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And it will be great even to the army of the heavens; and it will cast to the earth from the army, and from the stars, and it will tread them down.


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And even to the chief of the army was he magnified, and from him the continuance was lifted up, and the foundation of his holy place was cast down.


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And an army will be given upon the continuance by transgression, and it will cast down truth to the earth; and it did and it succeeded.


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And I shall hear one holy one speaking, and one holy one will say to a certain one, speaking, How long the vision of the continuance, and the transgression laying waste, to be? and the holy place and the army being trodden down?


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And he will say to me, Even to evening morning, two thousand and three hundred; and the holy place was justified.


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And it will be in my seeing, I Daniel, the vision, and I shall seek its understanding, and behold, there stood before me as the sight of a man,


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And I shall hear man's voice between Ulai, and he will call and say, Man of God, cause to this to understand the sight.


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And he will come near my standing: and in his coming I was afraid, and I shall fall upon my face; and he will say to me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end, the vision.


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And in his speaking with me I lay in a deep sleep upon my face upon the earth: and he will touch upon me and will cause me to stand upon my standing.


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And he will say, Behold me making known to thee what shall be in the last part of the wrath: for at the appointment, the end.


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And the hairy he goat, the king of Grecia: and the great horn which is between his eyes, he the first king.


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And that being broken, and four will stand up underneath it, four kingdoms from the nation shall stand up, and not in his power.


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And in the latter state of their kingdom as those transgressing being completed, a king strong of face and understanding enigmas, shall stand up.


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And strong his power, and not in his power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and he prospered, and did, and he destroyed the strong ones and the holy people.


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And by his intelligence and he caused deceit to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify in his heart, and in security he shall destroy many: and against the Chief of chiefs he shall stand; and without hand shall he be broken.


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And the sight of the evening and the morning which was said, it is truth: and shut thou up the vision; for, for many days.


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And I Daniel was, and was sick days; and I shall rise and do the works of the king; and I shall be astonished at the sight, and none understanding.


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In one year to Darius son of Ahasuerus, from the seed of Media who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans.


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In one year to the kingdom, I Daniel understood by books the number of years which the word of Jehovah was to Jeremiah the prophet, to fill up for the desolations of Jerusalem seventy years.


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And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:


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And I will pray to Jehovah my God, and I will confess and say, Ah, Jehovah, the great and dreadful God, watching the covenant and the mercy to those loving him, and to those watching his commands:


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We sinned, and we did iniquity, and were evil, and rebelled, and departing from thy commands and from thy judgments.


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And we heard not to thy servants the prophets who spake in thy name to our kings and our chiefs and our fathers, and to all the people of the earth.


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To thee, O Jehovah, justice, and to us shame of face, as this day to the men of Judah, and to those dwelling in Jerusalem, and to all Israel being near and being far off, in all the lands where thou didst thrust them there in their transgression which they transgressed against thee.


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O Jehovah, to us shame of face, to our kings, to our chiefs, and to our fathers, that we sinned against thee.


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We heard not to the voice of Jehovah our God to go in his laws which he gave before us in the hand of his servants the prophets.


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And all Israel passed by thy Laws, and departing not to hear to thy voice; and the curse will be poured upon us, and the oath which was written in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we sinned against him.


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And he will set up his words which he spake against us, and against our judges who judged us to bring against us a great evil: which was not done under all the heavens according to what was done in Jerusalem.


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As that written in the law of Moses all this evil came upon us, and we supplicated not the face of Jehovah our God to turn back from our iniquities and to understand in thy truth.


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And Jehovah will watch for evil, and will bring it upon us: for Jehovah our God is just upon all his works which he did: and we heard not to his voice.


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And now, O Jehovah our God, who brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and thou wilt make to thee a name as this day; we sinned, we did evil.


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O Jehovah, according to all thy justice, now shall thine anger be turned back, and thy wrath from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people for a reproach to all those round about us.


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And now, O our God, hear to the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy desolated holy place, for sake of Jehovah.


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Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which thy name was called upon it: for not for our justice do we cause our supplications to fall before thee, but for thy many compassions.


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O Jehovah hear; O Jehovah forgive; O Jehovah, attend and do; thou wilt not delay for thy sake, O my God: for thy name was called upon thy city and upon thy people.


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And I yet speaking and praying and confessing my sins, and the sins of my people Israel, and causing my supplication to fall before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God;


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And I yet speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I saw in the vision in the beginning, being wearied with weariness, touched upon me about the time of the evening gift.


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And he will cause to understand, and will speak with me, and say, O Daniel, now came I forth to teach thee understanding.


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In the beginning of thy supplications the word came forth, and I came to announce; for thou art desires: and understand thou in the word, and consider in the sight.


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Seventy seventy were divided upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to expiate iniquity, and to bring in eternal justice, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy of holies.


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And thou shalt know and understand, from the going forth of the word to turn back and to build Jerusalem even to Messiah the leader, seventy weeks, and sixty and two weeks: and the street shall turn back and be built, and the ditch, in the trouble of the times.


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And after sixty and two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, and not for him: and the people of the leader coming shall destroy the city and the holy place; and its end with an overflowing, and even to the end of the war desolations were determined.


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And he made strong the covenant to many one week: and half the week he shall cause the sacrifice and gift to cease, and upon the wing of abominations laying waste, even to the completion, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolation.


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In the third year to Cyrus king of Persia the word was revealed to Daniel, whom his name was called Belteshazzar; and the word truth, and the warfare great: and he understood the word, and understanding to him in the sight.


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Bread of desires I ate not, and flesh and wine came not into my mouth, and anointing, I did not anoint myself even to the filling up of three weeks of days.


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And in the twenty and fourth day to the first month, and I was upon the hand of the great river, this is Hiddekel;


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And I shall lift up mine eyes and see, and behold, one man being clothed with linen garments, and his loins being girded with gold of Uphaz:


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And his body as topaz, and his face as the sight of lightning, and his eyes as flames of fire, and his arms and his feet as the eye of polished brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude.


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And I saw, I Daniel alone, the sight: and the men that were with me saw not the sight, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they will flee in hiding themselves.


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And I was left alone, and I shall see this great sight, and strength was not left in me: and my honor was turned upon me into destruction, and I retained not strength.


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And I shall hear the voice of his words: and in my hearing the voice of his words, and I was lying in a deep sleep upon my face, and my face to the earth.


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And he will say to me, O Daniel, a man of desires, understand thou in the words which I speak to thee, and stand upon thy standing: for now was I sent to thee. And in his speaking with me this word I stood trembling.


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And he will say to me, Thou shalt not fear, Daniel: for from the first day that thou gavest thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I came for thy words.


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And the chief of the kingdom of Persia stood against me twenty and one days: and behold, Michael, one of the first chiefs, came, to help me; and I was left there near the kings of Persia.


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And I came to cause thee to understand what shall happen to thy people in the last of the days: for yet the vision for days.


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And behold, as the likeness of the sons of man touched upon my lips: and I shall open my mouth and speak and say to him standing before me, O my lord, by the sight my straights were turned upon me, and I retained not strength.


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And how shall this servant of my lord be able to speak with this my lord and I, from this time no strength will stand in me, and breath was not left in me.


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And he will say, Thou shalt not fear, O man of desires: peace to thee; be strong, and be strong. And in his speaking with me I was strengthened, and saying, My lord shall speak; for thou didst strengthen me.


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And he will say, Knewest thou wherefore I came to thee? and now I will turn back to war with the chief of Persia: and I shall go forth, and behold, the chief of Grecia coming.


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But I will announce to thee that recorded in the writing of truth: and not one strengthening himself with me upon these things but Michael your chief.


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And now I will announce the truth to thee. Behold, yet three kings standing up to Persia; and the fourth shall be rich of great riches above all: and in his becoming strong in his riches he shall rouse up all against the kingdoms of Grecia.


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And in his standing up his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided to the four winds of the heavens; and not to his latter state, and not according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, and for others from besides these.


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And the king of the south shall be strong, and from his chiefs; and he shall be strong above him, and he ruled from much dominion.


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And at the end of years they shall join themselves together, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make straightnesses: and she shall not retain the power of the arm, and he shall not stand, and his arm: and she shall be given up, and those bringing her, and he begetting her, and he strengthening her in the times.


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And there stood up from the shoot of her roots as he, and he shall come to the strength, and he shall come into the fortress of the king of the north, and he did against them, and was strong:


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And also their gods with their molten images, with the vessels of their desire of silver and gold he shall bring in captivity to Egypt; and he shall stand years above the king of the north.


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And his sons shall gather themselves together, and they collected a multitude of many forces: and he coming, came and overflowed, and through: and he will turn back, and they shall gather themselves together even to his fortress.


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And the king of the south shall be exasperated, and shall come forth and war with him, with the king of the north: and he caused a great multitude to stand, and the multitude was given into his hand.


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And taking away the multitude his heart shall be lifted up; and he cast down myriads, and he shall not be strengthened.


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And the king of the north turned back and caused a great multitude to stand above the former, and at the end of times, years, coming he shall come with great strength and with much property.


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And in these times many shall stand up against the king of the south: and the sons of the violent of thy people shall be lifted up to cause the vision to stand; and they were weak.


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And the king of the north shall come and shall pour out a mound, and take the city of fortifications: and the arms of the south shall not stand, and the people of his choices, and no strength to stand.


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And he coming against him will do according to his will, and none standing before his face: and he shall stand in the land of glory, and it was finished in his hand.


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And he shall set up his face to come with the power of all his kingdom, and the upright with him; and he did: and he will give to him the daughter of women, to corrupt her: and she shall not stand, and shall not be for him.


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And he will turn back his face to the isles and take many: and a leader caused his reproach to cease to him; besides his reproach shall turn back to him.


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And he shall turn back his face to the fortress of his land: and he was weak and he fell, and he shall not be found.


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And there stood up upon his place he causing a task-master to pass through the glory of his kingdom: and in some days he shall be broken, and not in anger and not in war.


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And there stood up upon his place he being despised; and they gave not upon him the strength of the kingdom: and he came in tranquillity, and he took the kingdom by flatteries.


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And with the arms of an overflowing they shall overflow from his face, and they shall be broken; and also the leader of the covenant.


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And in security and in fatnesses of the province shall he come; and he did what his fathers did not, and the fathers of his fathers; the prey and spoil and property shall he scatter to them: and against the fortifications he shall reckon his purposes, and even to a time.


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And his strength shall rouse up and his heart against the king of the south with great force; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to war with a great and strong force, even exceedingly; and he shall not stand, for they shall reckon purposes against him.


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And they two kings, their heart for doing evil, and at one table they will speak falsehood; and it shall not prosper: for yet the end at the appointment.


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And he shall turn back to his land with great property; and his heart against the holy covenant; and he did, and turned back to his land.


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At the appointment he shall turn back, and come into the south; and it shall not be as the first, and as the last.


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And the inhabitants of the desert, the Chittims came against him: and he was dejected, and he turned back, and was angry against the holy covenant: and he did, and turned back; and he shall understand for those forsaking the holy covenant.


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And seed from him shall stand up, and they profaned the holy place of strength, and they removed the Continuance, and they gave the abomination laying waste.


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And those condemning the covenant shall pollute by smooth things: and the people knowing their God shall be strong and do.


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And those understanding of the people shall cause to understand to many: and they were weak by the sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by plunder, days.


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And in their being weak they shall be helped with a little help: and many were joined to them by flatteries.


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And from those understanding shall be weak to try upon them to separate, to become white even to the time of the end: for yet at the appointment.


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And the king did according to his will; and he shall exalt himself and magnify himself over every god; and against the God of gods he shall speak wonderful things, and he prospered even till anger was finished: for that being determined was done.


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And concerning the God of his fathers he shall not understand, and concerning the desire of women, and concerning every god he shall not understand; for he shall magnify himself over all.


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And to the God of fortresses he shall do honor upon his place: and to a god which his fathers knew not he shall do honor with gold and with silver, and with precious stone, and with desires.


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And he did to the strong fortifications with a strange god whom he recognized, he shall multiply honor: and he caused them to rule over many, and he will divide the land for a price.


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And in the time of the end the king of the south shall wage war with him: and the king of the north shall rush on like a tempest against him, with chariot and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he came into the lands, and overflowed and passed through.


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And he came into the land of glory, and many shall be weak: and these shall escape from his hand, Edom and Moab, and the first of the sons of Ammon.


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And he ruled over the hidden things of gold and silver, and over all the desires of Egypt: and the Lybians and Cushites in his steps.


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And reports from the sunrising and from the north shall terrify him: and he shall go forth in great wrath to destroy, and to exterminate many.


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And he shall plant the tent of his palace between the seas to the mountain of glory of holiness: and he came even to his end, and none helping to him.


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And in that time Michael the great chief shall stand up, he standing for the sons of thy people: and it was a time of straits that was not from there being a nation, even to that time: and in that time thy people shall escape, every one being found written in the book.


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And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.


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And those understanding shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those justifying many, as the stars forever and ever.


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And thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run through and knowledge shall be multiplied.


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And I Daniel saw, and behold, two others standing, one hence upon the lip of the river, and one thence upon the lip of the river.


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And he will say to the man clothed with linen garments which was above to the waters of the river, Till when the end of the wonders?


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And I shall hear the man clothed with linen garments, who was above to the waters of the river, and he will lift up his right hand and his left to the heavens, and swear by him living forever, that for an appointment of appointments and a half; in the scattering of the hand of the holy people being finished, all these shall be finished.


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And many shall be separated and become white, and be tried; and the unjust did evil: and all the unjust shall not understand; and the intelligent shall understand.


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And from the time of removing the continuance, and to give the abomination laying waste, a thousand two hundred and ninety days.


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The word of Jehovah which was to Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel.


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The beginning of the word of Jehovah by Hosea. And Jehovah will say to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of fornication and children of fornication; for the land committing fornication, will commit fornication from after Jehovah.


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And he will go and take Gomer, daughter of Diblaim; and she will conceive and bring forth to him a son.


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And Jehovah will say to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little and I reviewed the bloods of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I caused the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.


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And she will yet conceive and bring forth a daughter. And he will say to him, Call her name, Not being compassionated: for I will no more add to compassionate the house of Israel; for taking away, I will take them away.


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And I will compassionate the house of Judah, and I saved them by Jehovah their God, and I will not save them by bow and by sword, and by battle, by horses and by horsemen.


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And the number of the sons of Israel was as the sand of the sea which shall not be measured and shall not be numbered: and it was in the place which it shall be said to them, Ye are not my people, and it shall be said to them, Ye the sons of the living God.


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And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel were gathered together, and they appointed to them one head, and they came up out of the land: for great the day of Jezreel.


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Contend with your mother, contend ye, for she is not my wife, and I not her husband: for she shall put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;


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Lest I shall strip her naked, and I set her as the day of her birth, and I set her as a desert, and I set her as a land of dryness, and I slew her with thirst.


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For their mother committed fornication: she conceiving them acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after those loving me giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, mine oil and my drinks.


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Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths.


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And she pursued those loving her, and she shall not overtake them; and she sought them and she shall not find: and she said, I will go and turn back to my former husband, for it was well to me then more than now.


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And she knew not that I gave to her grain, and new wine, and new oil, and I multiplied silver to her, and gold they made for Baal.


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For this I will turn back and take away my grain in its time, and my new wine in its appointment, and I took away my wool and my linen to cover her nakedness.


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And now will I uncover her wickedness before the eyes of those loving her, and a man shall not deliver her from my hand.


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And I caused all her rejoicing to cease, her festival and her new moon, and her Sabbath and all her appointment.


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And I destroyed her vine and her fig tree, of which she said, They are wages to me which those loving me gave to me: and I set them for a forest, and the beasts of the field ate them.


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And I reviewed upon her the days of the Baals, which she will burn incense to them, and she will be decked with her earring and her necklace, and she will go after those loving her, and she forget me, says Jehovah.


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And I gave to her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she was humbled there as the days of her youth and as the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it was in that day, says Jehovah, thou shalt call me, My husband; and thou shalt no more call to me, My Lord.


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And I put away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.


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And I cut out for them a covenant in that day with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and I caused them to lie down confidently.


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And I betrothed thee to me forever; and I betrothed thee to me in justice and in judgment, and in kindness and in compassions.


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And it was in that day, I will answer, says Jehovah, I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the earth;


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And the earth shall answer the grain and the new wine and the new oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.


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And I sowed her to me in the earth; and I compassionated her Not being compassionated; and I said to Not my people, Thou my people; and they will say, My God.


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And Jehovah will say to me, Yet go, love a woman loving evil and an adulteress, as Jehovah loves the sons of Israel, and they took to other gods and love raisin-cakes.


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And saying to her, Many days thou shalt well with me; and thou shalt not commit fornication, and thou shalt not be for a man: and also I am for thee.


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For many days shall the sons of Israel dwell, not a king and not a chief and not a sacrifice and not a pillar and it one ephod and teraphim.


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Afterward the sons of Israel shall turn back and they sought Jehovah their God, and David their king; and they trembled at Jehovah and at his goodness in the last of the days.


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Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land.


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Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.


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For this the land shall mourn, and every one in it languished with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the heavens; and also the fish of the sea shall be taken away.


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But a man shall not contend, and he shall not admonish a man: and my people as contending with the priest.


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And thou wert weak in the day, and the prophet also was weak with thee by night, and I destroyed thy mother.


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My people were cut off from not knowing: because thou didst reject knowledge and I will reject thee from being priest to me: and thou wilt forget the instructions of thy God; I will also forget thy sons, also I.


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And it was as the people so the priest: and I reviewed upon them their way; and their doings I will turn back to them.


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For they ate and they shall not be satisfied, and they committed fornication and they shall not spread abroad: for with Jehovah they left off to watch.


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My people will ask in their counsel, and with their rod they will announce to them: for the spirit of fornications caused to err, and they will commit fornication from under their God.


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Upon the heads of the mountains they will sacrifice, and upon the hills they will burn incense, under the oak and the white poplar and the terebinth, because its shadow was good: for this your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides shall commit adultery.


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I will not review over your daughters when they shall commit fornication, and over your brides when they shall commit adultery: fur they will separate themselves with harlots, and with prostitutes will they sacrifice: and the people will not understand, they shall be thrown down.


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If thou Israel commit fornication Judah shall not transgress; and ye shall not come to Gilgal, and ye shall not go up to the house of vanity, and ye shall not swear, Jehovah lives.


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Their drinking bout departed: committing fornication, they committed fornication: they loved, give ye shame upon her shields.


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Hear this ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, ye house of the king; for the judgment is to you, because ye were a snare to the watch tower and a net stretched out upon Tabor.


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I knew Ephraim and Israel were not hid from me: for now thou didst commit fornication, O Ephraim; Israel was deified.


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They will not give their doings to turn back to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they knew not Jehovah.


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And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face, and Israel and Ephraim shall be weak in their iniquity; Judah also being weak with them.


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With their sheep and with their oxen they will go to seek Jehovah; and they shall not find; he withdrew himself from them.


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Against Jehovah they acted faithlessly: for they begat strange sons: now shall the new moon consume them with their portions.


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Strike the horn upon the hill, and the trumpet upon the height: make a loud noise at the house of vanity after thee, O Benjamin.


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Ephraim shall be for desolation in the day of chastisement: in the tribes of Israel I made known the faithful thing.


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And Ephraim will see his disease and Judah his wound, and Ephraim will go to Assur, and he will send to king Jareb: and he will not be able to heal for you, and he will not remove from you the wound.


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For I as the lion to Ephraim, and as the young lion to the house of Judah I, I will rend and go away; I will take away and none delivering.


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I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.


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Go ye and we will turn back to Jehovah: for he rent and he will heal us; he will strike, and he will bind us up.


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He will revive us after two days: in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live before him.


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And we shall know, we shall pursue to know Jehovah: as the morning his going forth was prepared; and he shall come as the rain to us, as the latter rain, the early rain of the earth.


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What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, O Judah? and your kindness as the cloud of the morning, and as the dew being early went away.


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For this I cut off by the prophets; I slew them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments the light going forth.


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As troops waiting for a man, the company of priests will break in pieces the way with the shoulder: for they did wickedness.


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In the house of Israel I saw something horrible: there the fornications to Ephraim, Israel was defiled.


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As I healed to Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evils of Shomeron: for they did falsehood, and the thief will come in, and the troop invaded without.


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And they will not say to their heart, I remembered all their evil: now their doings surrounded them; they were before my face.


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All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.


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For they drew near their heart as a furnace in their lying in wait: all the night their baker slept; in the morning it burnt as the fire of flame.


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They were all hot as a furnace, and they consumed their judges; all their kings fell: none among them calling to me.


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Strangers consumed his strength, and he knew not: also grayness of hair was sprinkled upon him, and he knew not.


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And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face: and they turned not back to Jehovah their God. And sought him not in all this.


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When they shall go I will spread my net upon them; as birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will correct them when hearing to their assembly.


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Wo! to them, for they fled from me: destruction to them because they transgressed against me: and I will redeem them and they spake falsehoods against me.


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And they cried not to me in their heart, for they shall wail upon their beds: for corn and new wine they will assemble themselves together; they will turn aside against me.


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They will turn back not to the Highest: they were as a bow of deceit: their chiefs shall fall by the sword from the wrath of their tongue: this their derision in the land of Egypt.


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The trumpet to thy mouth: as an eagle upon the house of Jehovah, because they passed by my covenant and they transgressed against my laws.


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They made kings, and not from me: and they made princes, and I knew not: their silver and their gold they made to them images to cut off.


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Thy calf rejected, O Shomeron; mine anger was kindled against them: how long shall they not be able to be clean?


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For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces.


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For they shall sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk to it: the sprout shall not make flour: perhaps it will make, strangers will swallow it down.


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Also if they will hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and shall they be weak a little from the lifting up of the king of the princes.


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The sacrifices of my gifts they will sacrifice flesh, and they will eat; Jehovah delighted not in them; now will he remember their iniquity, and he will review their sins: they shall turn back to Egypt.


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And Israel will forget him making him, and he will build temples; and Judah multiplied fortified cities: and I sent a fire upon his cities and it will consume its palaces.


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Thou shalt not rejoice, O Israel; exult not as the peoples: for thou didst commit fornication from thy God; thou didst love a gift upon all the threshing-floors of grain.


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They shall not dwell in the land of Jehovah; and Ephraim turned back to Egypt, and in Assur they shall eat the unclean thing.


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They shall not pour out wine to Jehovah, and they shall not be pleasant to him: their sacrifices as the bread of sorrows to them; all eating it shall be defiled: for their bread for their soul shall not come in to the house of Jehovah.


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For behold, they went from destruction: Egypt shall gather them together; Memphis shall bury them: the desire for their silver, the prickly weed shall possess them: the thorn in their tents.


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The days of oversight came, the days of recompense came; Israel knew: the prophet is foolish, the man of the spirit, raving, for the multitude of thine iniquity and great destruction.


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The watchman of Ephraim with God: the prophet the snare of a fowler upon all his ways; destruction in the house of his God.


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They made deep, they were corrupted as the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquity, he will review their sins.


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I found Israel as grapes in the desert; as the first fruit in the fig tree in her beginning I saw your fathers: they went to Baal-Peor, and they will separate themselves to shame, and their abominable things will be according to their love.


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But if they shall bring up their sons and I bereaved them from man: but also wo to them in my departing from them.


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Ephraim, as I saw for Tyre, was planted in a habitation: and Ephraim to bring forth his sons to him slaying.


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All their wickedness in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the evil of their doings I will drive them out from my house, I will not add to love them: all their chiefs are turning away.


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Ephraim was smitten, their root was dried up, they shall not make fruit: also if they shall bring forth, and I destroyed the desires of their womb.


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God will reject them, for they heard not to him: and they will be wandering about among the nations.


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Israel an empty vine, he will place fruit to himself: according to the multitude to his fruit he multiplied to his altars; according to the goodness of his land they made good pillars.


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Their heart was divided; now shall they be guilty: he will break down their altars, he shall lay waste their images.


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For now they will say, No king to us because we feared not Jehovah; and what shall the king do to us?


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They spake words swearing falsehood, cutting out a covenant: and judgment broke forth as the head upon the furrows of the field.


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For the calves of the house of vanity they shall fear dwelling in Shomeron: for his people mourned over it, and his priests will exult over it, for its glory, for it was removed from it.


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Also it shall be brought to Assur a gift to king Jareb: Ephraim shall take shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his counsel.


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And the heights of vanity were destroyed, the sin of Israel: the thorn and weeds shall come up upon their altars; and they said to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall upon us.


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From the days of the hill thou didst sin, O Israel: there they stood: the battle in the hill against the sons of iniquity shall not overtake them.


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In my coming and I shall correct them, and the peoples shall be gathered together against them in their being bound to their two sins.


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And Ephraim a heifer being taught, loving to tread out the grain, and I passed over upon the good of her neck: I will cause Ephraim to ride; Judah shall be silent, and Jacob shall be strong to him.


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Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you.


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Ye ploughed injustice, ye reaped iniquity; ye ate the fruit of falsehood: for thou didst trust in thy way in the multitude of thy strong ones.


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And an uproar arose among thy people, and all thy fortifications shall be laid waste, as Shaman laid waste the house of the ambush of God in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon the sons.


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Thus did the house of God to you from the face of the evil of your evil: in the morning the king of Israel being cut off, was cut off.


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They called to them, thus they went from them: they will sacrifice to the Baals, and to the carved images they will burn incense.


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I will draw them with the cords of man, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as those lifting up the yoke upon their jaw-bones, and I will gently give them to eat.


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He shall not turn back to the land of Egypt, and Assur shall be his king, for they refused to turn back.


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And the sword was polished in his cities, and it consumed his branches, and devoured from their counsels.


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And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.


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How shall I give thee up, O Ephraim? Shall I deliver thee over, O Israel? How shall I give thee as the earth? Shall I set thee as roes? My heart was turned upon me; my grievings were kindled together.


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I will not do the burning of mine anger, I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not a man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not come into the city.


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They shall go after Jehovah: as a lion shall he roar: for he shall roar, and the sons of the waters shall tremble.


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They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assur: and I caused them to dwell in their houses, says Jehovah.


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Ephraim surrounded me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit: and Judah even ruled with God, and was faithful with the holy ones.


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Ephraim fed upon the wind, and he pursued the east wind: all the day he multiplied falsehood and destruction; and they will cut out a covenant with Assur, and oil will be brought to Egypt.


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And a contention to Jehovah with Judah, and to review Jacob according to his ways; he will turn back to him according to his doings.


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And he will be a leader to the messenger, and he will prevail: he wept, and he will make supplication to him: in the house of God he will find him, and there he will speak with him.


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And Ephraim will say, Surely I became rich, I found to me wealth: all my labors shall not be found to me iniquity which was sin.


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And I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will even cause thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the appointment.


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And I spake by the prophets, and I multiplied the vision, and by the hand of the prophets I will use similitudes.


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If Gilead nothing? Surely they were vanity: in Gilgal they sacrificed oxen; also their altars as heaps upon the furrows of the field.


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And Jacob will flee to the field of Aram, and Israel will serve for a wife, and for a wife he watched.


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Ephraim provoked bitternesses, and bloods shall fly swiftly upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord turn back to him.


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According to the word Ephraim being terrified be was lifted up in Israel; and he will transgress in Baal and die.


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And now they will add to sin, and they will make to them a molten image of their silver, in their understanding images the work of artificers all of it: they saying to them, The men sacrificing shall kiss the calves.


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For this they shall be as the cloud of the morning, and as the early dew going way; as the chaff will be driven from the threshing-floor on the wind, and as the smoke from the chimney.


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And I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt not know a God except me: and none saving but me.


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According to their pasture, and they will be satiated; they were satiated, and their heart will be lifted up: for this they forgat me.


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I will fall upon them as a bear bereaved, and I will rend the enclosure of their heart, and devour them there as a lion: the beast of the field shall cleave them asunder.


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Now will I be thy king, and he shall save thee in all thy cities, and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Thou shalt give to me a king and princes.


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The pains of her bringing forth shall come to him: he a son not wise; for now he shall not stand in the breaking forth of sons.


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From the hand of hades will I redeem them; from death will I ransom them: I will be thy words, O death, I will be thy cutting off, O hades: consolation will be hid from mine eyes.


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If he shall bear fruit in the midst of his brethren, the east wind shall come, the wind of Jehovah came up from the desert, and his fountain shall be dried up, and he shall lay waste his place of fountains: he shall plunder the treasure of all vessels of desire.


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Shomeron shall be guilty, for she rebelled against her God: by the sword shall they fall: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and they having conceived shall be cleft asunder.


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Take with you words and turn back to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take away all iniquity, and take good: and we will requite the fruits of our lips.


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Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.


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They sitting in his shadow shall turn back; they shall live upon the grain, and they shall blossom as the vine: his remembrance as the wine of Lebanon.


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Ephraim: What to me yet to images? I humbled, and I will regard him: I as the green cypress From me thy fruit was found.


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Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.


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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the earth. Was this in your days, and if in the days of your fathers?


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Concerning it recount to your sons, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.


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The residue of the creeping locust the common locust ate; and the residue of the common locust the feeder ate; and the residue of the feeder the devourer ate.


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Awake, ye intoxicated, and weep; and wail, all ye drinking wine, on account of the new wine, for it was cut off from your mouth.


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For a nation came up upon my land, strong, and no number; his teeth the teeth of a lion, and a biter's teeth of the lioness to him.


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He set my vine for destruction, and my fig tree for breaking: he stripped off its covering and cast away; and its shoots were whitened.


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The field was laid waste, the land mourned; for the grain was laid waste, the new wine was dried up, the new oil languished.


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The husbandmen were ashamed; wail, ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field perished.


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The vine was dried up, and the fig tree languished; the pomegranate, also the palm tree and the apple tree; all the trees of the field were dried up, for joy was dried up from the sons of man.


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Be ye girded and lament, ye priests: wail, ye, serving the altar: come in, pass the night in sackcloth, ye serving God: for the gift and the libation were withheld from the house of your God.


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Consecrate a fast, call an assembly, gather together the old men, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.


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Alas! for the day: for the day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.


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The kernels died beneath the clods, the treasures were laid waste, the garners were pulled down, for the grain was dried up.


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How the beasts groaned! the herds of oxen wept, for no pasture to them; also the flocks of sheep were laid waste.


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To thee, O Jehovah, will I call: for a fire consumed the habitations of the desert, and the flame burned all the trees of the field.


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Also the beasts of the field will look up to thee: for the channels of waters were dried up, and the fire devoured the habitations of the desert.


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Clang ye the trumpet in Zion, shout in my holy mountain: all the inhabitants of the land shall be moved, for the day of Jehovah is coming, for it is near.


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A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.


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Before him a fire devoured, and after him a flame shall burn; the land as the garden of Eden before him, and after him a desert of desolation; and also there was no escaping to him.


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As the voice of chariots upon the heads of the mountains they shall leap, as the voice of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, as a strong people set in order for battle.


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They shall run as strong men; as men of war they shall come up upon the wall; and they shall go each in his ways; they shall not change their paths.


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And they shall not thrust a man his brother; they shall go a man in his high way: and in the midst of the javelin shall they fall, they shall not be cut in pieces.


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In the city they shall run up and down; on the wall shall they run, into the houses they shall come up, through the windows shall they come in as a thief.


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The earth was moved before his face; the heavens trembled: the sun and the moon were darkened, and the stars took away their shining:


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And Jehovah gave his voice before the face of his strength: for exceedingly great his camp, and strong he doing his word: for great the day of Jehovah, and exceedingly terrible; and who shall endure it?


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And also now, says Jehovah, Turn back even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping and with wailing.


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And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn back to Jehovah your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, slow of anger and of much kindness, and lamenting on account of the evil.


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Who shall know he will turn back, and lamenting and leaving a blessing after him, a gift and a libation to Jehovah your God?


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Gather the people, consecrate the convocation, assemble the old men, gather the children and those sucking the breasts: the bridegroom shall come forth from his chamber and the bride from her nuptial couch.


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Between the porch and to the altar the priests serving Jehovah shall weep, and they shall say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and thou wilt not give thine inheritance to reproach for the nations to rule over them: wherefore shall they say among the peoples, Where is their God?


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And Jehovah will answer and say to his people, Behold me sending to you the grain and the new wine, and the new oil; and ye were satisfied with it: and I will no more give you a reproach among the nations.


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And the northern I will remove far off from you, and I thrust him into a land of dryness and desolation, with his face to the east sea, and his end to the last sea; and his stink came up, and his stench shall come up, for he magnified to do.


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Ye shall not fear, ye beasts of the field, for the pastures of the desert sprang forth, for the tree bore its fruit, the fig tree and the vine gave their strength.


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Ye sons of Zion rejoice and be glad in Jehovah your God; for he gave to you the early rain for justice, and he will bring down to you the rain, the early and latter rain in the first.


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And the threshing-floors were filled with grain, and the wine-vats overflowed with new wine and new oil.


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And I requited to you the years which the common locust ate, the feeder, and the devourer, and the creeping locust, my great army which I sent among you.


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And eating, ye ate and were satisfied, and ye praised the name of Jehovah your God who did wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed forever.


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And ye knew that I am in the midst of Israel, and I am Jehovah your God, and none else: and my people shall not be ashamed forever.


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And it was after this I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters prophesied, your old men shall dream your young men shall see visions.


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The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and the terrible day of Jehovah.


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And it was all who shall call upon the name of Jehovah shall escape: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be an escaping, as said Jehovah; and among those left whom Jehovah called.


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For behold, in those days and in that time when I shall turn hack the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,


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And I gathered all nations, and I brought them down to the valley of Jehoshophat, and I contended with them there for my people and mine inheritance Israel whom they scattered among the nations, and they divided the land.


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And for my people they cast the lot: and they will give the boy for a harlot, and they sold the girl for wine; and they will drink.


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And also what are ye to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the circuits of Philistia? do ye requite to me a recompense? and if ye recompense to me, swiftly and speedily I will turn back your recompense upon your head;


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And the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem ye sold to the sons of the Grecians, in order to remove them far off from their border.


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Behold me raising them up from the place where ye sold them there, and I turned back your recompense upon your head:


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And I sold your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they sold them to the Sabeans to a nation far off: for Jehovah spake.


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Call ye this among the nations: Consecrate war; rouse up the strong ones, they shall draw near, all the men of war shall come up.


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Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears: the weak shall say, I am strong.


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Hasten and come all ye nations from round about, and be ye gathered together: there lead down, O Jehovah, thy strong ones.


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The nations shall be roused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will sit to judge all the nations from round about.


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Send ye forth the sickle, for the harvest was ripened: come ye, go down, for the wine press was filled, the vats, overflowed; for their evil is great.


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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of judgment: for the day of Jehovah is near in the valley of judgment.


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And Jehovah shall cry out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he shall give his voice; and the heavens and the earth trembled: and Jehovah the refuge to his people, and the fortress to the sons of Israel.


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And ye knew that I am Jehovah your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem was holy, and strangers shall no more pass through her.


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And it was in that day the mountains shall drop new wine, and the hills shall flow milk, and all the channels of Judah shall flow waters, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and it watered the valley of acacias.


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Egypt shall be for a desolation, and Edom shall be for a desert of desolation from violence to the sons of Judah, because they poured out innocent blood in their land.


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The words of Amos who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the shaking.


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And he will say, Jehovah will cry out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he will give his voice; and the habitations of the shepherds mourned, and the head of Carmel was dried up.


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Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn back for their threshing Gilead with threshing-sledges of iron.


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And I broke the bar of Damascus, and I cut off the inhabitants of the valleys of vanity, and him taking hold of the rod of the house of delight: and the people of Aram were carried away captive to a walled place said Jehovah.


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Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn it back, for their carrying away captive the whole captivity to deliver over to Edom.


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And I cut off the inhabitants of Ashdod, and him holding the rod from Ashkelon; and I turned back my hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the rovers perished, said the Lord Jehovah.


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Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn it back, for their delivering over the whole captivity to Edom, and they remembered not the covenant of their brethren:


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Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn it back: for his pursuing his brother with the sword, and he destroyed his compassions, and his anger will rend forever, and his wrath was observed perpetually.


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Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn it back: for their cleaving asunder those conceiving of Gilead to increase their bound.


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And I kindled a fire in the walls of Rabbah, and it devoured her palaces with a loud noise in the day of war, with a storm in the day of whirlwind:


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Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn it back, for they burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime:


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And I will send a fire upon Moab and it devoured the palaces of the cities, and Moab died with tumult, with a loud noise and with the voice of the trumpet:


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And I cut off the judge from the midst of her, and I will slay all her chiefs with him, said Jehovah.


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Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn it back from him, for their rejecting the instructions of Jehovah, and they watched not his laws, and their lies caused them to err which their fathers went after them.


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Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn it back, for their selling the just one for silver and the needy for shoes;


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Panting for the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and they will turn away the way of the humble: and a man and his father will go to the same young girl to profane my holy name:


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And upon garments taken in pledge they will turn by every altar, and they will drink the wine of the amerced in the house of their God.


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And I destroyed the Amorite from their face, whom his height as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; and I will destroy his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.


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And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I will cause you to come into the desert forty years to possess the land of the Amorite.


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And I will raise up from your sons for prophets, and from your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even this, ye sons of Israel? says Jehovah.


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And ye will give the Nazarites wine to drink; and ye commanded to the prophets, saying, Ye shall not prophesy.


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And flight perished from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his power, and the mighty shall not save his soul.


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And he holding the bow shall not stand; and the swift with his feet shall not escape: and he riding the horse shall not save his soul.


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Hear this word which Jehovah spake against you, ye sons of Israel, against all the family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,


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You only did I know from all the families of the earth: for this I will review over you all your iniquities.


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Will the lion roar in the forest and not tearing in pieces for him? will the young lion give his voice from his cave if he took nothing?


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Will the bird fall upon the snare of the earth and no noose for her? shall a snare be brought up from the earth and a taking shall not be taken?


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If the trumpet shall be struck in the city and the people not be terrified? if evil shall be in the city and Jehovah did not?


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For the Lord Jehovah will not do a word but he will uncover his secret to his servants the prophets.


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Cause to be heard upon the palaces in Ashdod, and upon the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Be ye gathered together upon the mountains of Shomeron, and see the great tumults in the midst of her, and the oppressed in the midst of her.


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And they knew not to do the straight, says Jehovah, storing up violence and oppression in their palaces.


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For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: An adversary and round about the land; and he brought down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces were plundered.


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Thus said Jehovah: As the shepherd will deliver from the mouth of the lion two legs, and part of an ear, thus shall the sons of Israel be delivered dwelling in Shomeron in the extremity of a tribe, or in Damascus under a roof.


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For in the day of my reviewing the transgressions of Israel upon him, and reviewed upon the altars of the house of God: and the horns of the altar were broken, and they fell to the earth.


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And I struck the house of autumn with the house of summer; and the houses of ivory perished, and the great houses were taken away, says Jehovah.


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Hear this word, ye heifers of Bashan, which are upon the mountain of Shomeron, oppressing the poor, breaking in pieces the needy, saying to their lords, Bring, and we will drink.


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The Lord Jehovah sware by his holiness, that behold, the days coming upon you and he took you away with hooks, and your last part with thorns of the fish.


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And ye shall go forth at the breaches, a woman before her; and ye cast to the fortress, says Jehovah.


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Come to the house of God and transgress: at Gilgal multiply to transgress; and bring your sacrifices for the morning, your tenths for three days:


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And burn incense from leaven, a thanksgiving, and call; cause the free will offerings to be heard: for thus ye loved ye sons of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah.


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And also I gave to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.


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And I withheld from you the rain in yet three months to harvest: and I caused to rain upon one city, and upon one city I will not cause to rain: and one portion shall be rained upon, and the portion which shall not be rained upon, it shall dry up.


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And two, three cities wandered about to one city to drink water, and they will not be satisfied: and they turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.


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I struck you with blasting and with yellowness: the multitudes of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olives the creeping locust shall eat: and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.


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And I sent death among you in the way of Egypt: and I slew your young men with the sword, with the captivity of your horses; and I will bring up your camps with fire and in your anger, and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.


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I overthrew among you as God overthrows Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye shall be as a fire-brand snatched from the burning: and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.


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For this, thus will I do to thee, O Israel: because that I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.


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For behold, he forming the mountains and creating the wind, and announcing to man his meditation, making the morning darkness and treading upon the heights of the earth, Jehovah, God of armies his name.


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The virgin of Israel fell; she shall not add to rise: she was cast out upon her land; none raising her up.


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For thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city going out a thousand shall leave an hundred, and going out a hundred shall leave ten to the house of Israel.


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And ye shall not seek the house of God, and to Gilgal ye shall not go: and to the well of the oath ye shall not pass over: for Gilgal being taken captive shall be carried away captive, and the house of God shall be for nothing.


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Seek ye Jehovah and live, lest he shall break through the house of Joseph as fire, and devour, and none quenching to the house of God.


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He made the seven stars and Orion, and he turned the shadow of death to the morning, and he darkened the day to night: calling to the water of the sea, and he will pour them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name:


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Causing desolation to shine forth upon the strong one and desolation shall come against the fortress.


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For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine.


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For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate.


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Seek good and not evil, so that ye shall live: and so Jehovah God of armies shall be with you as ye said.


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Hate evil and love good, and set ye judgment in the gate: perhaps Jehovah God of armies will compassionate the remnant of Joseph.


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For this, thus said Jehovah God of armies, the Lord: In all your broad places, wailing; and in all the streets they shall say, Wo! wo! and they called to the husbandman to mourning, and wailing to all knowing lamentation.


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Wo! to you longing for the day of Jehovah; for what this to you? The day of Jehovah this is darkness and not light.


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According as a man will flee from the face of the lion and the bear struck upon him, and he came into the house and leaned his hand upon the wall, and the serpent bit him.


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For if ye shall bring up to me burnt-offerings, and your gifts, I will not delight; and I will not look upon the peace-offerings of your fatlings.


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Ye lifted up the tent of your king and the statue of your images, the star of your God which he made for you.


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And I caused you to be carried away captive farther off than Damascus, said Jehovah, God of armies his name.


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Wo! to those living at ease in Zion, and trusting in the mountain of Shomeron, being distinguished the chief of the nations, and to them the house of Israel came.


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Pass through Calneh, and see; and go ye from thence to Hamath the great: and go down to the wine-press of the rovers: are they good above these kingdoms? or their bound great above your bound?


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Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall.


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Drinking wine in vases, and they will anoint with the chief of ointments: and they were not grieved for the breaking of Joseph.


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For this now shall they be carried away captive with the head of those carried away captive, and the shouting a those poured forth was removed.


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The Lord Jehovah sware by his soul, says Jehovah God of armies: I abhor the pride of Jacob and I hated his palaces: and I delivered up the city and its fulness.


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And his friend lifted him up, and he burning him, and bringing forth the bones out of the house, and he said to him by the sides of the house: Yet with thee? And he said, No more. And he said, Silence: for not to make mention of the name of Jehovah.


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For behold, Jehovah commands, and he struck the great house with breaches, and the small house with clefts.


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Shall horses run upon the rock? will he plough with oxen? for ye turned judgment to poison and the fruit of justice to wormwood.


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For behold, I raise up against you, O house of Israel, says Jehovah God of armies, a nation; and they pressed you from the entrance of Hamath, even to the torrent of the sterile region.


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Thus the Lord Jehovah caused me to see; and behold, he will form locusts in the beginning of the coming up of the latter grass; and behold, the latter grass after the moorings of the king.


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And it was if he finished to devour the green herb of the land, and saying, O Lord Jehovah, forgive now: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small.


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Thus the Lord Jehovah caused me to see: and behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend with fire, and it will devour the great deep, and devoured the portion.


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And Jehovah will say to me, What seest thou, Amos? And saying, Lead. And Jehovah will say to me: Behold me setting lead in the midst of my people Israel: I will no more add to pass by to him.


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And the heights of Isaak were made desolate, and the holy places of Israel shall be laid waste; and I rose up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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And Amaziah priest of the house of God, will send to Jeroboam, kind of Israel, saying, Amos conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will not be able to endure all his words.


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For thus said Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel being taken captive shall be carried away captive from his land.


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And Amaziah will say to Amos, Thou seer, go flee for thyself to the land of Judah, and eat there bread, and there shalt thou prophesy.


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And thou shalt no more add to prophesy in the house of God, for it is the king's holy place, and it is the house of the kingdom.


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And Amos will answer and say to Amaziah, I am no prophet, and I not the son of a prophet; for I a herdsman, and gathering figs of the sycamores.


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And Jehovah will take me from after the sheep, and Jehovah will say to me, Go prophesy to my people Israel.


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And now hear the word of Jehovah: Thou sayest thou shalt not prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop against the house of Isaak.


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For this, thus said Jehovah: Thy wife shall commit fornication in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line, and thou shalt die upon a polluted land: and Israel being taken captive shall be carried into captivity from his land.


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And he will say, Amos, what seest thou? And saying, A basket of fruit. And Jehovah will say to me: The end came upon my people Israel; I will no more add to pass by to him.


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The songs of the temple wailed in that day, says the Lord Jehovah; many a corpse in every place being cast forth: silence.


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Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?


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For this shall not the land be moved, and all dwelling in it, mourn? And it came up all of it as a river; and it was driven out and watered as the river of Egypt.


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And it was in that day, says the Lord Jehovah, I caused the sun to set at noon, and I darkened the light to the earth in that day:


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And turned your festivals into mourning, and all your songs to lamentation; and I brought up sackcloth upon all loins, and upon every head, baldness; and I set it as the mourning of an only one, and its last part as a day of bitterness.


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Behold, the days coming, says the Lord Jehovah, and I sent famine into the land; not a famine for bread, and not a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.


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And they wandered from sea even to sea, and from the north and even to the sunrising, they shall run up and down to seek the word of Jehovah and they shall not find.


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They swearing by the trespass of Shomeron, and they said, Thy God lives, O Dan, and the way of the well of the oath lives, and they fell, and they shall rise no more.


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I saw Jehovah standing upon the altar: and he will say, Strike the crown, and the thresholds shall tremble: and dash them in pieces upon the head of them all; and the last of them I will slay with the sword: the fleeing to them shall not flee, and he escaping to them shall not escape.


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If they shall break through into hades, from thence shall my hand take them; and if they shall go up to the heavens, from thence I will bring them down.


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And if they shall hide in the head of Carmel, from thence will I search and take them; and if they shall be concealed from before mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, from thence I will command the serpent, and he bit them.


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If they shall go into captivity before the face of their enemies, from thence I will command the sword and it slew them: and I set mine eyes upon them for evil and not for good.


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And the Lord Jehovah of armies touching upon the land, and it shall melt, and all dwelling in it mourned: and it came up as a river all of it, and it was overflowed as the river of Egypt.


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He building his ascents in the heavens, and founding his arches upon the earth; he calling to the waters of the sea, and he will pour them forth upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name.


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Are ye not as the sons of the Cushites to me, O sons of Israel? says Jehovah. Did I not bring up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the rovers from Caphtor, and Aram from Kir?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah upon the sinning kingdom, and I destroyed it from the face of the earth; only that destroying, I will not destroy the house of Jacob, says Jehovah.


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For behold, I command, and I caused the house of Israel to move to and fro among all nations as it will move to and fro in a sieve, and a stone shall not fall to the earth.


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By the sword shall all sinning of my people die, saying, It shall not draw near, and the evil shall not cleave about us.


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In that day I will raise up the tent of David having fallen, and I walled in their breaches, and I will raise up its destructions, and I built it as the days of old:


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So that they shall possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations which my name was called upon them, says Jehovah doing this.


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Behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, the ploughing touched upon the harvesting, and the treading of grapes upon the drawing of the seed; and the mountains dropped new wine, and all the hills shall melt.


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And I turned back the captivity of my people Israel, and they built the cities laid waste, and they inhabited; and they planted vineyards, and they drank their wine; and they made gardens and ate their fruit.


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And I planted them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from their land which I gave to them, said Jehovah thy God.


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The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom: We heard a report from Jehovah, a messenger was sent among the nations; arise ye, and we will rise up against her for war.


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The pride of thy heart deceived thee, dwelling in the refuges of the rock, the height his seat; he said in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the earth?


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If thou shalt exalt as the eagle, and set thy nest between the stars, from thence will I bring thee down, says Jehovah.


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If thieves came to thee, if those laying waste by night, (how thou wert destroyed!) will not they steal their sufficiency? If the grape gatherers came to thee will they not leave gleanings?


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All the men of thy covenant sent thee even to the bound: the men of thy peace deceived thee, they prevailed against thee; they set thy bread a snare under thee: no understanding in him.


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Was it not in that day, says Jehovah, and I destroyed the wise out of Edom, and understanding from mount Esau?


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And thy strong ones were terrified, O Teman, so that each shall be cut off from mount Esau from slaughter.


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In the day of thy standing from before, in the day of the strangers carrying away captive his strength, and foreigners came into his gate, and upon Jerusalem they cast the lot, also thou as one of them.


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And thou shalt not look upon thy brother in the day of his calamity, and thou shalt not rejoice to the sons of Judah in the day of their perishing, and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of straits.


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Thou shalt not come in to the gate of my people in the day of their misfortune; also thou shalt not look upon his evil in the day of his misfortune, and thou shalt not stretch forth upon his wealth in the day of his misfortune.


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Thou shalt not stand upon the fork of the roads to cut off those of his escaping; and thou shalt not deliver up those remaining of his in the day of straits.


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For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou didst, it shall be done to thee: thy recompense shall turn back upon thy head.


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For as thou didst drink upon my holy mountain, all the nations shall drink continually, and they drank and they swallowed down, and they were as they not being.


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And in mount Zion shall be an escaping and there was holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.


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And the house of Jacob was a fire, and the house of Joseph for a flame, and the house of Esau for straw; and they burned in them, and they devoured them; and a survivor shall not be to the house of Esau, for Jehovah spake.


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And they of the south shall possess mount Esau, and of the low country, the rovers: and they shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Shomeron: and Benjamin, Gilead.


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And the captivity of this beginning to the sons of Israel, that of the Canaanites even to Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the south.


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And Jonah will rise up to flee to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and he will go down to Joppa; and he will find a ship going to Tarshish, and be will give his hire, and he will go down in it to go with them to Tarshish from the face of Jehovah.


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And Jehovah cast down a great wind upon the sea, and there will be a great storm upon the sea, and the ship was thought to be broken.


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And the seamen will fear, and they will cry each to his God, and they cast down the vessels which were in the ship into the sea to lighten from them. And Jonah went down to the sides of the ship, and he will lie down and snore.


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And the chief sailor will draw near to him and say to him, What to thee, thou snoring? Arise, and call to thy God; perhaps thy God will work for us and we shall not perish.


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And they will say each to his neighbor, Come, and we will cast the lot, and we shall know for the retributions of this evil to us. And they will cast lots, and the lot will fall upon Jonah.


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And they will say to him, Announce now to us, on account of whom is this evil to us? what thy work? and from whence wilt thou come? what thy land? and from what people art thou?


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And he will say to them, I an Hebrew; and I feared Jehovah God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.


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And the men will fear a great fear, and they will say to him, What this thou didst? For the men knew that he fled from the face of Jehovah, for he announced to them.


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And they will say to him, What shall we do to thee and the sea shall subside from you? For the sea went and tossed about.


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And he will say to them, Lift me up and cast me down to the sea, and the sea will subside from you: For I shall know on my account this great storm is upon you.


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And the men will break through to turn back to the dry land, and they will not be able, for the sea went and tossed about against them.


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And they will call to Jehovah, and say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, not now shall we perish for the soul of this man, and thou wilt not give upon us innocent blood: for thou Jehovah didst as thou pleased.


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And the men feared Jehovah with great fear, and they will sacrifice a sacrifice to Jehovah, and they will vow vows.


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And Jehovah will prepare a great fish to swallow down Jonah: and Jonah will be in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.


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And he will say, I called out of straits to me to Jehovah, and he will answer me; from the belly of hades I cried for help, thou heardest my voice.


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And thou wilt cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas; and the river will surround me: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.


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The waters encompassed me even to the soul: the deep will surround me, the sedge was bound to my head.


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I shall go down to the cuttings off of the mountains; the earth, her bars about me forever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Jehovah my God.


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In my soul fainting upon me I remembered Jehovah: and my prayers will come in to thee to thy holy temple.


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And I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of praise; what I vowed I will requite. Salvation is to Jehovah.


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And Jonah will rise and go to Nineveh according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh was a great city to God, the going of three days.


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And Jonah will begin to go in to the city the going of one day, and he will call, and say, Yet forty days and Nineveh being overthrown.


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And the men of Nineveh will believe in God, and they will call a fast, and put on sackcloth, from great and even to small.


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And the word will reach to the king of Nineveh, and he will rise from his throne, and he will take away his wide cloak from off him, and he will cover with sackcloth, and he will sit upon ashes.


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And he will cry out and say in Nineveh from the edict of the king and of his great ones, saying, The man and beast, the herd and flock shall not taste of anything; they shall not feed and they shall not drink water.


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And man and beast shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry with strength to Jehovah: and they shall turn back each from his evil way, and the violence which is in their hands.


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Who shall know God will turn back and lament, and turning back from the burning of his anger and we shall not perish?


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And God will see their works that they turned back from their evil way, and God will lament for the evil which he spake to do to them: and he did it not.


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And he will pray to Jehovah and say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, was not this my word while I was upon my land? For this I anticipated to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and of much kindness, and lamenting for evil.


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And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.


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And Jonah will go out of the city, and sit from the east to the city, and he make to him there a tent, and he will sit under it in the shadow, even till he shall see what will be upon the city.


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And Jehovah God will appoint a gourd, and it will come up from above to Jonah to be a shadow over his head to deliver to him from his evil. And Jonah will rejoice over the gourd with great joy.


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And God will appoint a worm in the going up of the morning for the morrow, and it will strike the gourd, and it will dry up.


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And it will be as the sun rose, and God will appoint a sultry east wind; and the sun struck upon the head of Jonah, and he will faint, and he will ask his soul to die, and say, It is good for me to die rather than live.


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And God will say to Jonah, Was it well to kindle to thee for the gourd? And he will say, It was well to kindle to me, even to death.


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And Jehovah will say, Thou didst spare for the gourd, which thou didst not labor for it, and thou didst not cause it to grow; it was the youth of a night, and the son of a night perished.


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And shall I not spare for Nineveh the great city which there is in it more than one hundred and twenty thousand men which knew not between his right hand to his left, and many cattle?


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The word of Jehovah which was to Micah the Morasthite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, who saw upon Shomeron and Jerusalem.


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Hear, all ye peoples; attend, O earth, and its fulness, and the Lord Jehovah shall be among you for a witness, Jehovah from his holy temple.


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For behold, Jehovah will come forth from his place, and come down and tread upon the heights of the earth.


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And the mountains melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft as wax from the face of the fire, as waters cast down in a descent.


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For the transgression of Jacob all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel What the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Shomeron? And what the heights of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?


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And I set Shomeron for the rubbish of the field, for the plantings of a vineyard: and I poured down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.


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And all her carved images shall be beaten down, and all her gifts shall be burnt in fire, and all her images I will set a desolation: for she gathered from the gift of a harlot, and they shall turn back even to the gift of a harlot.


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For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked: I will make wailing as jackals, and mourning as the daughters of the ostrich.


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For her blow is incurable, for it came even to Judah; he touched even to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


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Ye shall not announce in Gath; weeping, ye shall not weep: in the house of dust roll thyself in dust.


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Pass away for you, thou fair one inhabiting the nakedness of shame: she inhabiting the place of flocks shall not go forth to the wailing of the house of firm root; he shall take from you his standing.


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For she dwelling in bitterness was anxious for good: but evil came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.


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Make fast the chariot to the steed, thou inhabitress of the smitten: she the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion: for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.


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For this thou shalt give a sending forth upon the possession of Gath: the houses of falsehood are for falsehood to the kings of Israel.


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Yet I will bring to thee him possessing, O inhabitress at the head: he shall come even to Adullam, the glory of Israel.


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Make bald, and shave for the sons of thy delights; increase thy baldness as the eagle; for they were carried away captive from thee.


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Wo to them purposing vanity, and working evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they will do it because it is to the strength of their hand.


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And they desired fields, and they took by force; and houses, and they took away: and they oppressed a man and his house, and a man and his inheritance.


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For this, thus said Jehovah: Behold me purposing evil against this family, which ye shall not remove your necks from thence; and ye shall not go loftily: for it is an evil time.


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In that day a parable shall be lifted up against you, and a wailing of a wailing was wailed, saying, Being laid waste, we shall be laid waste: he will exchange a portion of my people: how he will remove to me; for turning away, he will divide our fields.


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Ye shall not let fall in drops; they shall let fall in drops; they shall not let fall in drops for these; shame shall not be removed.


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Causing the house of Jacob to say, Was the spirit of Jehovah shortened? if these his doings? shall not my words do good to a people going straight?


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Aforetime my people for the enemy: he will raise them up from before the garment; ye will put off the wide cloak from those passing by with confidence, turning back the war.


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The women of my people ye will thrust out from the house of her delights; from her children ye will take my majesty forever.


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Arise ye, and go, for this is not the rest: because it was defiled it will destroy, and with a sore destruction.


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If a man going in the spirit and falsehood, lying, I will drop to thee for wine and for strong drink; and he was the dropping of this people.


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Gathering, O Jacob, I will gather all of thee; collecting, I will collect the remnant of Israel; together I will set them as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their pasture they shall make noise from man.


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He breaking forth came up before them: they broke forth and they will pass through the gate, they will go forth by it; and their king will pass through before them and Jehovah at their head.


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And saying, Hear now, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?


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Hating the good and loving the evil; plucking off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones.


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And who ate the flesh of my people, and they stripped off their skin from off them; and they brake their bones in pieces, and separated as for the pot, and as flesh in the midst of the kettle.


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Then shall they cry to Jehovah and he will not answer them, and he will hide his face from them in that time, as their doings were evil.


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Thus said Jehovah for the prophets causing my people to wander, and biting with their teeth, and they called, Peace; and who will not give upon their mouth and they consecrated war against him:


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For this, night to you from a vision, and darkness to you from divining; and the sun went down upon the prophets, and the day was dark upon them.


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And they seeing were ashamed, and they divining were disgraced, and they covered over their lip, all of them; for no answer of God.


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But I was filled with power, with the spirit of Jehovah, and judgment and strength to announce to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.


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Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness.


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Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.


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For this, on account of you Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of the forest.


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And it was in the last of the days the mountain of the house of Jehovah will be prepared upon the head of the mountains, and it was lifted up above the hills, and peoples flowed to it.


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And many nations went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: from Zion will instruction go forth, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.


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And he judged between many peoples, and he admonished to strong nations even to far off; and they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall no more learn war.


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And they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none terrifying: for the mouth of Jehovah of armies spake.


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For all peoples shall go each in the name of his God, and will go in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.


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In that day, says Jehovah, I will assemble her halting, and I will gather her thrust out, and whom I broke in pieces.


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And I set her halting for a remnant, and her far removed, for a strong nation: and Jehovah reigning over them in mount Zion from now and even to forever.


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And thou, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, even to thee shall it come, and the first dominion: came the kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Now wherefore wilt thou cry out with an outcry? is no king in thee? or thy counselor perished? for pain laid hold of thee as she bringing forth.


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Be in pain and bring forth, O daughter of Zion, as she bringing forth: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and dwell in the field, and going even to Babel; there shalt thou be delivered; there Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.


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And now many nations were gathered against thee, saying, She shall be defiled, and our eyes shall look upon Zion.


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And they knew not the purposes of Jehovah, and they understood not his counsel for he gathered them as sheaves of the threshing-floor.


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Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will set thy horn iron, and thy hoofs of brass: and thou didst crush many peoples: and I devoted their plunder to Jehovah, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.


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Now thou shalt crowd thyself together, O daughter of a troop: besieging there against us; with a rod they will strike the judge of Israel upon the cheek.


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And thou, house of bread, of Ephratah, for being small among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall come forth to me he being ruler in Israel; and his goings forth from of old from the days of eternity.


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For this he will give them up even till the time she bearing will bring forth: and the remainder of his brethren shall turn back to the sons of Israel.


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And he stood and fed in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God; and they shall dwell: for now shall he be magnified to the ends of the earth.


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And this was peace, for Assur shall come up into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces and we raised against him seven shepherds, and eight anointed men.


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And they ruled the land of Assur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its openings: and he delivered from Assur when he shall come in to our land, and when he shall tread in our bound.


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And the remnant of Jacob was in the midst of many peoples as the dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the green herb, which will not wait for man and will not delay for the sons of man.


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And the remnant of Jacob was among the nations in the midst of many peoples as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he passed through, and he trod down and pulled in pieces, and none delivering.


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And it was in that day, says Jehovah, and I cut off thy horses from the midst of thee, and I destroyed thy chariots.


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And I cut off thy carved images and thy statues from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands.


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Hear ye now what Jehovah said: Arise, contend thou with the mountains, and the hills shall hear thy voice.


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Hear ye mountains the contention of Jehovah, and ye perpetual foundations of the earth: for a contention to Jehovah with his people, and he will dispute with Israel.


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For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of servants I redeemed thee; and I shall send before thy face, Moses, Aaron and, Miriam.


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O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor answered him from the acacias even to Gilgal; in order to know the justice of Jehovah.


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With what shall I come before Jehovah? I will bow to the high God; shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves, the sons of a year?


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Will Jehovah delight in thousands of rams, in ten thousands of torrents of oil? shall I give my first-born my transgression? the fruit of my belly, the sin of my soul?


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He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God?


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The voice of Jehovah will call to the city, and wisdom feared thy name: hear ye the rod, and who appointed it.


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Are there yet treasures of injustice in the house of the unjust, and the ephah of leanness being cursed?


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For her rich ones were full of violence, and her inhabitants spake falsehood, and their tongue of deceit in their mouth.


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Thou shalt eat and not be satisfied; and thine emptiness in the midst of thee; and thou shalt remove and shalt not deliver; and what thou shalt save I will give to the sword.


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Thou shalt sow and thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olive and thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and new wine, and thou shalt not drink wine.


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The laws of Omri will be observed, and all the work of the house of Ahab, and ye will go in their counsels; so that I shall give thee for a desolation, and her inhabitants for hissing, and ye shall bear the reproach of my People.


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Wo to me! for I was as the gatherings of the fruit harvest, as the gleanings of the vintage, no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first ripe fig.


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The merciful one perished from the earth, and none upright among men: they all will lie in wait for bloods; they will hunt each his brother with a net.


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For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it.


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Their good as the thorn, the upright more than the thorn-hedge: the day of thy watchings and thy reviewings came; now shall be their perplexity.


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Ye shall not trust in a companion, ye shall not confide in a friend: watch the doors of thy mouth from her lying in thy bosom.


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For the son despising the father, the daughter rising up against her mother, the bride against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies the men of his house.


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Thou shalt not rejoice against me, O mine enemy: if I fell I arose: if I shall sit in darkness, Jehovah a light to me.


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The anger of Jehovah I will bear, for I sinned against him till he shall maintain my contention, and do my judgment: he will bring me forth to the light, I shall look upon his justice.


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And mine enemy shall see, and shame shall cover her saying to me, Where Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for treading down as the mire of the streets.


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That day he shall come even to thee from Assur and the fortified cities, and from the fortress and even to the river, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.


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Feed my people with thy rod, the sheep of thine inheritance dwelling by themselves in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed Bashan and Gilead as the days of old.


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According to the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt I will cause him to see wonderful things.


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The nations shall see and be ashamed from all their strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be deaf.


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They shall lick the dust as the serpent, as crawlers of the earth they shall move out of their close places: for Jehovah our God they shall tremble and they shall fear from thee.


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Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy.


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He will turn back, he will compassionate us: he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.


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Thou wilt give truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which thou didst swear to our fathers from the days of old.


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God is jealous and Jehovah avenging; Jehovah avenging and possessing wrath; Jehovah avenging to his adversaries and he keeping for his enemies.


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Jehovah slow to anger and great of power, and Jehovah acquitting, will not acquit his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and a cloud the dust of his feet.


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Rebuking upon the sea, and he will dry it up, and all the rivers he laid waste, and Bashan languished, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languished.


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The mountains shook from him, and the hills melted, and the earth will lift up from his face, and the habitable globe and all dwelling in it.


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Before the face of his wrath who shall stand? and who will rise up in the burning of his anger? his wrath was poured out as fire, and the rocks were torn down from him.


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With an inundation passing through he will make a completion of her place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.


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For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.


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Thus said Jehovah: If peace thus many, and thus they were shown and he passed through. And afflicting thee I will afflict thee no more.


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And Jehovah commanded concerning thee, of thy name no more shall be sown: from the house of thy God I will cut off the carved image and the molten image: I will set thy grave, for thou wert contemned.


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Behold upon the mountains the feet of him announcing good news, causing peace to be heard. O Judah, keep thy festivals, complete thy vows: for Belial shall no more add to pass through thee: he was completely cut off.


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The hammer came up upon thy face: press upon the fortress, look about the way, strengthen the loins, make the power strong greatly.


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For Jehovah turned back the pride of Jacob as the pride of Israel: for they emptying emptied them out, they corrupted their vine-shoots.


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The shield of the strong ones being red, the men of strength being clothed in scarlet: with fire of irons the chariots in the day of his preparing, and the cypresses were made to tremble.


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The chariots shall be mad in the streets, they shall run up and down in the broad places: their appearance as flames; as lightnings shall they run.


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He shall make mention of his chiefs: they shall be weak in their goings; they shall hasten to her wall, and the covering was prepared.


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It was fixed, she was led away captive, she went up and her maids being led as the voice of doves smiting upon their heart.


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And Nineveh it is as a pool of water from the days, and they fleeing, stood: they stood, and none looking back.


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They plundered silver, they plundered gold: and no end to her splendid equipage; glory from all the vessels of desire.


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She was emptied, and being emptied, and being made empty: and the heart melted, and a wavering of the knees, and trembling in all loins, and the face of them all gathered a glow.


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Where is the dwelling of the lions and that pasture for the young lions where the lion went, the lioness there, the lion's whelp, and none terrifying?


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The lion tore in pieces the sufficiency of his whelps, and strangling for his lionesses; and his holes shall be filled with the prey, and his dens with that torn in pieces.


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Behold me against thee, says Jehovah of armies; and I burnt her chariot in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions, and I cut of thy prey from the land, and the voice of her messengers shall no more be heard.


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Wo! to the city of bloods: all of it was filled with falsehood, with violence; the prey will not withdraw.


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The voice of the whip and the voice of the shaking of the wheel, and the horse moving swiftly, and the chariot bounding.


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The horsemen also lifting up the flame of the sword, and the lightning of the spear: and a multitude of wounded, and the heavy carcass; and no end to the corpses; they shall stumble upon their dead bodies.


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From the multitude of the fornications of the fair harlot, the beauty of the mistress of sorceries, selling the nations by her fornication, and families by her sorceries.


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Behold me against thee, says Jehovah of armies; and I uncovered thy skirts upon thy face, and I caused nations to see thy nakedness, and kingdoms thy shame.


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And it was all serving thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh was laid waste: who shall be moved for her? from whom shall I seek those consoling to thee?


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Wilt thou be good above No, the builder dwelling among the rivers, the waters round about to her, whose strength the sea, from the sea her wall?


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Also she being carried away captive went into captivity: also her young children shall be dashed in pieces at the head of every street, and upon her honored ones they cast the lot, and all her great ones were bound in chains.


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And thou shalt be intoxicated, and thou shalt be hid; thou shalt seek a fortified place from the enemy.


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All thy fortresses, fig trees with the early figs: if they shall be shaken, and they fell into the mouth of him eating.


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Behold, thy people women in the midst of thee: the gates of thy land being opened were opened to thine enemies: a fire devoured thy bars.


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Draw the water of the siege to thee, strengthen thy fortresses go into clay, tread upon the clay, hold fast from the brick.


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There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee as the feeder: make thee numerous as the feeder, make thee numerous as the locust.


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Thou didst multiply thy traffics above the stars of the heavens: the feeder spread out and it will fly away.


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Thy devoted ones as the locust, and thy satraps as the locust of locusts encamping in the walls in a cold day; the sun arose and they fled away, and where his place he knew not.


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Thy shepherds slumbered, O king of Assur: thy chiefs will lie down: thy people breathed upon the mountains, and none gathering.


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No healing to thy breaking; thy blow sickly: all hearing thy report shall clap the hand upon thee: for upon whom did not thine evil pass continually?


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How long, O Jehovah, did I cry for help, and thou wilt not bear? I will cry to thee violence, and thou wilt not save.


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Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up.


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For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.


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See ye among the nations, and look, and wonder; ye shall wonder: for the working a work in your days ye will not believe if it shall be recounted.


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For behold me raising up the Chaldeans, the nation bitter and hasty, going upon the wide places of the land to possess the dwelling not to him.


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And his horses were swift above panthers, and they were sharp above the wolves of the evening: and his horsemen were spread, and his horsemen shall come from far off; they shall fly as the eagle hastening to eat.


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Wholly for violence shall he come: the host of their faces forwards, and he shall gather a captivity as the sand.


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And he shall scoff at kings, and princes a derision to him: at every fortress he shall deride, and he shall heap up dust and take it.


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Art thou not from of old, O Jehovah, my holy God? We shall not die. O Jehovah, thou didst set him for judgment; and O Rock, thou didst found him for correction.


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Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him?


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And he brought up a completion with the book, he will drag him in his net, and he will gather him in his fishnet: for this he will rejoice and be glad.


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For this he will sacrifice to his net and burn incense to his fish-net; for by them his portion fat and his food growing fat.


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I will stand upon my watch, and be set me upon the fortress, and I will watch to see what he will speak in me, and what I shall turn back upon my reproof.


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And Jehovah will answer me and say, Write the vision, and grave upon the tablets, so that he shall run reading in it.


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For yet the vision for the appointment, and it shall breathe to the end, and it shall not lie: if it shall delay, wait for it; for coming, it will come; and it shall not delay.


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Behold, his soul being inflated in him, was not straight: and the just one shall live by his faithfulness.


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And also if a proud man transgressing by wine, and he will not rest; who enlarged his soul as hades, and he as death, and he will not be satisfied, and he will gather to him all nations, and he will collect to him all peoples.


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Shall not these all of them lift up a parable against him, and an enigma of an oracle against him, and it shall be said, Wo! to him multiplying that not to him, how long making heavy upon him goods taken in pledge?


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Shall they not rise up suddenly, biting thee? and they disquieting thee shall rise up, and thou wert for plunder to them.


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For thou didst spoil many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall spoil thee; from the bloods of man, and the violence of the land, of the city, and all dwelling in it.


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Wo! to him plundering an evil plunder to his house, to set his nest on high, to deliver from the hand of evil.


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Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?


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Wo! to him giving his neighbor drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle, and also to be drunken so as to look upon their nakedness.


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Thou wert satisfied with dishonor rather than honor: drink thou also and be uncircumcised: the cup of the right hand of Jehovah shall turn upon thee, and ignominy upon thy glory.


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For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of beasts shall terrify them from the bloods of man, and the violence of the earth, of the city, and all dwelling in it.


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What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?


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Wo! to him saying to the wood, Awake; and to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach. Being overlaid with gold and silver, and not any spirit in its midst.


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O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I was afraid: O Jehovah, preserve alive thy work in the midst of years, in the midst of years make known; in anger thou wilt remember mercy.


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God will come from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran Silence. His majesty covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.


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And the brightness will be as the light; horns to him from his hand; and he set the hiding of his strength.


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He stood, and he will measure the earth: he saw, and he will cause the nations to tremble, and the mountains of eternity will be dispersed, the perpetual hills bowed down: the goings everlasting to him.


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Was Jehovah angry against the rivers? if thine anger against the rivers? if thy wrath against the sea? if thou wilt ride upon thy horses, thy chariots of salvation?


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In nakedness thou shalt raise thy bow, the oaths of the tribes, he said. Silence. Thou wilt divide the earth with rivers.


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They saw thee, the mountains shall tremble: the pouring of the waters passed by: the deep gave his voice, he lifted up his hands on high.


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The sun, the moon stood in her habitation: at the light of thine arrows they will go, at the shining of the lightning of thy spear.


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Thou wentest forth to save thy people, to save thy Messiah; thou didst crush the head from the house of the unjust, making naked the foundation, even to the neck. Silence.


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Thou didst pierce with rods the head of the leader: they will rush on as a tempest to scatter me their exultation as to devour the poor in secret.


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I heard and my belly will tremble; at the voice my lips quivered: rottenness will come into my bones, and I shall tremble under me that I shall rest at the day of straits: to come up to the people he will invade him.


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If the fig tree shall not blossom, and no produce in the vines; the work of the olive failed, and the fields made not food; and the sheep being cut off from the fold, and no oxen in the stalls.


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Jehovah the Lord my strength, and he will set my feet as the hinds, and upon my heights he will cause me to tread. For the overseer upon my stringed instruments.


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The word of Jehovah which was to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.


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I will take away man and cattle; I will take away the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the unjust; and I cut off man from the face of the earth, says Jehovah.


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And I stretched out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, with the name of the obscurations with the priests.


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And those worshiping upon the roofs to the army of the heavens, and worshiping, swearing to Jehovah, and swearing to Malcham;


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Be silent from the face of the Lord Jehovah: for the day of Jehovah is near, for Jehovah prepared a swam he consecrated his called ones.


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And it was in the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah, and I reviewed upon the chiefs and upon the sons of the king, and upon all having put on strange clothing.


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And I reviewed upon every one leaping upon the threshold in that day, filling their lords houses with violence and deceit.


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And it was in that day, says Jehovah, a voice of a cry from the gate of fishes, and a wailing from the second, and a great breaking from the hills.


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Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan were destroyed; all lifting up silver were cut off.


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And it was in that time, I will search out Jerusalem with lights, and I reviewed upon the men curdled upon their lees, saying in their heart, Jehovah will do good and not evil.


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And their wealth was for plunder, and their houses for desolation: and they built houses, and they inhabited not; and they planted vineyards, and they shall not drink their wine.


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The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hastening greatly, the voice of the day of Jehovah: the strong one cried there bitterly.


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A day of wrath, that day a day of straits and distress, a day of storm and desolation, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom,


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And I pressed upon man, and they went as the blind, because they sinned against Jehovah: and their blood was poured out as dust and their bread as dung.


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Also their silver also their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; and all the land shall be consumed by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make a completion even sudden of all dwelling in the land.


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Before the law bring forth, as the chaff the day passing away before the burning of the anger of Jehovah shall not come upon you, before the day of the anger of Jehovah shall not come upon you.


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Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the earth, who did his judgment; seek justice, seek humility: perhaps ye shall be covered in the day of the anger of Jehovah.


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For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon for a desolation: they shall thrust out Ashdod at noon, and Ekron shall be rooted up.


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Wo! to the inhabitants of the region of the sea, the nation of the Cherethites: the word of Jehovah is upon you, O Canaan, the land of the rovers, and I destroyed thee from none inhabiting.


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And the region was for the remnant of the house of Judah; upon them they shall feed: in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening: for Jehovah their God shall review them, and turn back their captivity.


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I heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon which they reproached my people, and they will magnify against their border.


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For this. I live, says Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, for Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, the possession of the thorn-bush and salt-pits, and a desolation even to forever: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the rest of my nation shall inherit them.


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This to them for their pride, for they reproached and they will magnify against the people of Jehovah of armies.


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God being terrible to them, for he made lean all the gods of the earth; and they shall worship to him each from his place, all the isles of the nations.


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And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assur; and he will set Nineveh for a desolation, a dryness as the desert.


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And the flocks lay down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: also the pelican, also the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall sing in the window; desolation in the threshold: for the cedar was naked.


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This the exulting city dwelling confidently, saying in her heart, I, and none besides me. How was she for a desolation, a piece of lying down for the beast! all passing by her shall hiss and wave his hand.


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She heard not to the voice: she received not instruction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.


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Her chiefs in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges evening wolves; they laid not up for the morning.


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Her prophets vain-glorious men of treacheries: her priests defiled the holy place, they violated the law.


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Jehovah is just in her midst; he will not do iniquity: in morning by morning he will give his judgment to the light, he as not wanting; and the evil will not know shame.


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I cut off the nations: their pinnacles were desolate: I laid waste their streets from none passing by; their cities were destroyed from not a man, from not an inhabitant.


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I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; and her dwelling shall not be cut off, all that I reviewed over her but they rose early, they corrupted all their doings.


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For this, wait for me, says Jehovah, to the day of my rising up for a testimony: for my judgment is to assemble the nations for my gathering the kingdoms to pour upon them my wrath, all the burning of mine anger: for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be devoured.


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For then I will turn to the peoples a purified lip, for all to call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one shoulder.


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In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doing which thou didst transgress against me: for then will I remove from the midst of thee those exulting in thy pride, and thou shalt no more add to be elevated in my holy mountain.


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The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, and they shall not speak falsehood: and in their mouth shall not be found a tongue of deceit: for they shall feed and lie down, and none terrifying.


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Shout for joy, O daughter of Zion; cry with a loud voice, O Israel; rejoice and exult with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.


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Jehovah removed thy judgments, be turned away thine enemy: the king of Israel, Jehovah in the midst of thee: thou shalt no more see evil.


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Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee: the strong one will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will be silent in his love, he will exult over thee with rejoicing.


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I will assemble those grieved for the appointment, who were from thee, the lifting up upon it a reproach.


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Behold me doing all for sake of thee in that time: and I saved her halting, and her being driven out I will gather; and I set them for a praise and for a name in every land of their shame.


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In that time I will bring you, and in the time of my gathering you: for I will give you for a name and for a praise among all peoples of the earth, in my turning your captivity before your eyes, said Jehovah.


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In the second year to Darius the king, in the sixth month, in one day of the month, was the word of Jehovah, by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Josbna son of Josedeck the great priest, saying.


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Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying, This people said the time was not come, the time of the house of Jehovah to be built.


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Ye sowed much and brought in little; eating and not being satisfied; ye drank, and not drinking to the full; putting on clothing, and not being warm to him; and he hiring out, hires out for a purse perforated.


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Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will delight in it, and I shall be honored, said Jehovah.


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Looking for much, and behold, to little; and ye brought to the house and I blew upon it For what? says Jehovah of armies. Because of mine house that it was laid waste, and ye run each to his house.


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And I will call the drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine and upon the new oil, and upon what the earth shall bring forth, and upon man and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.


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And Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel will hear, and Joshua son of Josedeck the great priest, and all the remnant of the people, to the voice of Jehovah their God, and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God sent him, and the people will fear from the face of Jehovah.


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And Haggai the messenger of Jehovah will say in the message of Jehovah to the people, I am with you, says Jehovah.


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And Jehovah will raise up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Josedeck the great priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they will come and do the work in the house of Jehovah of armies their God.


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In the seventh, in the twentieth and one to the month, was the word of Jehovah by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,


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Say now to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Josedeck the great priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,


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Who being left among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how see ye it now? Is it not in your eyes like it as nothing?


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And now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says Jehovah; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedeck the great priest; and be strong, O all people of the land, says Jehovah, and do, for I am with you, says Jehovah of armies.


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The word which I cut out with you in bringing you forth out of Egypt, and my spirit stood in the midst of you; ye shall not fear.


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For thus said Jehovah of armies; Yet once it is a little, and I shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.


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And I shook all nations, and the desire of all nations came; and I filled this house with glory, said Jehovah of armies.


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Great shall be the glory of this latter house above the first, said Jehovah of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says Jehovah of armies.


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In the twenty and fourth to the ninth, in the second year to Darius, was the word of Jehovah by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,


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If a man shall lift up holy flesh in the wing of his garment and touch with the wing of his garment upon the bread and upon pottage, and upon wine and upon oil, and upon any food, shall it be made holy? And the priests shall answer and say, No.


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And Haggai will say, If the unclean of soul shall touch upon any of these, shall it be unclean? and the priests shall answer and say, It shall be unclean.


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And Haggai will answer and say, Thus this people and thus this nation before me, says Jehovah; and thus all the work of their hands; and what they shall bring near there it is unclean.


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And now, set now your heart from this day and upward, before setting stone upon stone in the temple of Jehovah.


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Who were ye coming to the heap of twenty and it was ten? coming to the wine-vat to draw fifty of the wine-press, and there was twenty?


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I struck you with blasting and with yellowness and with hail in all the work of your hands; and none with you to me, says Jehovah.


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Set now your heart from this day and upward, from the twenty and fourth day to the ninth, from the day that the temple of Jehovah was founded, set ye your heart.


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Is the seed yet in the storehouse? and even the vine and the fig tree, and the pomegranate and the olive tree bore not: from this day will I praise.


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And the word of Jehovah will be the second time to Haggai in the twenty and fourth to the month, saying,


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And I overturned the throne of kingdoms, and I destroyed the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I overturned the chariot and those riding it; and the horses and their horsemen came down, a man by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, my servant, says Jehovah, and I set thee as a seal; for I chose in thee, says Jehovah of armies.


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In the eighth month, in the second year to Darius, was the word of Jehovah to Zechariah son of Barachiah, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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And thou saidst to them, Thus said Jehovah of armies: Turn back to me, says Jehovah of armies, and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies.


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Ye shall not be as your fathers which the former prophets called to them, saying, Thus, said Jehovah of armies: Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil doings: and they heard not, and they attended not to me, says Jehovah.


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But the words and the laws which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not reach your fathers? and they will turn back and say, As Jehovah of armies purposed to do to us according to our ways and according to our doings, so he did with us.


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In the twenty and fourth day to the eleventh month, this the month Sabat, in the second year to Darius, was the word of Jehovah to Zechariah, son of Barachiah, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


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I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood <n> The hard copy spelling records the following as:</i></font> beween</n> between the myrtles which were in shady place; and after him red horses, bay, and white.


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And saying, What these, my lord? And the messenger speaking with me, will say to me, I will cause thee to see what these are?


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And the man standing between the myrtles will answer and say, These which Jehovah sent to go about in the earth.


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And they will answer the messenger of Jehovah standing between the myrtles, and they will say, We walked about in the earth, and behold, all the earth sat and rested.


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And the messenger of Jehovah will answer and say, O Jehovah of armies, how long wilt thou not compassionate Jerusalem and the cities of Judah with whom thou wert very angry this seventy years?


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And the messenger speaking with me, will say to me, Call thou, saying, Thus said Jehovah of armies; I was jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with great jealousy.


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And I am angry with great anger against the nations living in quiet: for I was angry a little and they helped for evil.


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For this, thus said Jehovah: I turned back to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, says Jehovah of armies, and a cord shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.


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Yet call, say, Thus said Jehovah of armies: My cities shall be spread abroad for good; and Jehovah yet comforted Zion and yet chose Jerusalem.


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And saying to the messenger speaking with me, What these? And he will say to me, These the horns which scattered Judah, and Israel, and Jerusalem.


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And saying, What came these to do? And he will say, saying, These the horns which scattered Judah, so that a man lifted not up his head: and these will come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations lifting up the horn to the land of Judah to scatter it.


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And saying, Whither goest thou? And he will say to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see according to what its breadth, and according to what its length.


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And behold, the messenger speaking with me went forth, and another messenger went forth to meet him:


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And he will say to him, Run, speak to this youth, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited an open country from the multitude of men and cattle in the midst of her.


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And I will be to her, says Jehovah, a wall of fire round about, and I will be for glory in the midst of her.


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Alas! alas! and flee ye from the land of the north, says Jehovah: for as the four winds of the heavens I spread you abroad, says Jehovah.


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For thus said Jehovah of armies: After glory he sent me to the nations spoiling you: for he touching upon you touched the gate of his eye.


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For behold me waving my hand upon them, and they were a spoil to their servants: and ye knew that Jehovah of armies sent me.


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Shout for joy and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for behold me coming, and I dwelt in the midst of thee, says Jehovah.


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And many nations joined themselves to Jehovah in that day, and they were to me for a people: and I dwelt in the midst of thee, and thou knewest that Jehovah of armies sent me to thee.


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Be silent, all flesh, from the face of Jehovah: for he was raised from the habitation of his holiness.


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And he will cause me to see Joshua the great priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the adversary standing upon his right hand for his adversary.


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And Jehovah will say to the adversary, And Jehovah will rebuke in thee, thou adversary: and Jehovah having chosen in Jerusalem will rebuke in thee: is not this a fire-brand snatched from the fire?


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And he will answer and say to them standing before him, saying, Remove the filthy garments from off him, And he will say to him, See, I caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and clothed thee with festive garments.


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And saying, They shall set a pure turban upon his head; and they will set the pure turban upon his head, and they will put on the garments. And the messenger of Jehovah stood.


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Thus said Jehovah of armies: If thou wilt go in my way, and if thou shalt watch my watches, and thou also shalt judge my house, and also thou shalt watch my enclosure, and I gave to thee the goings between these standing by.


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Hear now, O Joshua the great priest, thou and thy friends sitting before thee, for they are men of wonder: for behold me bringing my servant the Sprout.


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For behold the stone which I gave before Joshua; upon one stone seven eyes: behold me engraving its engraving, says Jehovah of armies, and I removed the iniquity of that land in one day.


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In that day, says Jehovah of armies, ye shall call each his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.


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And the messenger speaking with me will turn back and rouse me up as a man that will be roused from his sleep.


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And he will say to me, What seest thou? And saying, I saw, and behold, a candlestick of gold, all of it, and a bowl upon its head, and its seven lights upon it, and seven tubes to the seven lights which were upon its head:


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And the messenger speaking with me will answer and say to me, Knewest thou not what these are? And saying, No, my lord.


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And he will answer And say to me, saying, This the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by strength, not by power, but by my spirit, said Jehovah of armies.


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Who art thou, O great mountain? before the face of Zerubbabel for a level region. And he brought forth the stone of the head, a noise: Grace, grace to it.


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The hands of Zerubbabel founded this house, and his hands shall complete it; and thou knewest that Jehovah of armies sent me to you.


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For who despised the day of small things? and they rejoiced, and they saw the stone of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel, these seven; they the eyes of Jehovah running to and fro in all the earth.


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And I shall answer and say to him, What these two olive trees upon the right of the candlestick and upon its left?


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And I shall answer the second time, and say to him, What these two twigs of the olive trees which by the hand of the two tubes of gold emptying from them the gold?


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And he will say to me, What seest thou? And saying, I see a roll flying; its length twenty by the cubit, and its breadth, ten by the cubit.


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And he will say to me, This the curse going forth upon the face of all the earth: for every one stealing from thence was empty like it; and every one swearing from this was empty like it.


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I brought it forth, says Jehovah of armies, and it came into the house of the thief, and into the house of him swearing for falsehood in my name: and it lodged in the midst of his house, and it finished it and its wood and its stones.


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And the messenger speaking with me will go forth and say to me, Lift up now thine eyes and see what this going forth.


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And saying, What is it? And he will say to me, This the ephah going forth. And he will say, This their eye in all the earth.


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And he will say, This injustice. And he will cast her into the midst of the ephah; and he will cast a stone of lead upon its mouth.


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And I shall lift up mine eyes and see, and behold, two women will come forth, and the wind in their wings; and to them wings as the wings of the stork; and they shall lift up the ephah between the earth and between the heavens.


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And he will say to me, To build for it a house in the land of Shiner: and it was prepared, and set there upon her base.


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And I shall turn back and lift up mine eyes and see, and behold, four chariots going forth from between two mountains; and the mountains, mountains of brass.


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And in the third chariot, white horses and in the fourth chariot, horses sprinkled with spots, and fleet.


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And the messenger will answer and say to me, These the four spirits of the heavens going forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.


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The black horses which are in it, going forth into the land of the north; and the white went forth after them; and the sprinkled with spots went forth to the land of the south.


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And the fleet went forth and they will seek to go in order to go to and fro in the earth: and he will say, Go; go to and fro in the earth. And they will go to and fro in the earth.


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And he will cry out with me, and speak to me, saying, See them going forth to the land of the north; they caused my spirit to rest in the land of the north.


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Take from the captivity, from Heldai, from Tobijah, and from Jedaiah, which came from Babel, and come thou in that day and go into the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah;


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And take silver and gold and make crowns, and set upon the head of Joshua, son of Josedeck the great priest;


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And say to him, saying, Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying, Behold the man, The Sprout his name; and he shall spring forth from his place and build the temple of Jehovah.


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And he shall build the temple of Jehovah; and he shall lift up the majesty, and he sat and ruled upon his throne: and he was priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them two.


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And the crown shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen, son of Zephaniah, for a remembrance in the temple of Jehovah.


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And they being far off shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah; and ye knew that Jehovah of armies sent me to you. And it was if hearing, ye shall hear to the voice of Jehovah your God.


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And it will be in the fourth year to Darius the king, the word of Jehovah was to Zechariah in the fourth to the ninth month, in Chisleu;


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And he will send to the house of God, the chief of the treasure, and the friend of the king, and his men to beseech the face of Jehovah.


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To speak to the priests which were to the house of Jehovah of armies, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself according as I did, how many the years?


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Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh, and this seventy years, fasting, fasted ye to me, me?


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Is it not the words which Jehovah called by the hand of the former prophets in Jerusalem being inhabited and in security, and its cities round about her, and inhabiting the south and the low country?


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Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying. Judge ye the judgment of truth, and do mercy and compassions each to his brother.


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And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother.


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And they will refuse to attend, and they will give a stubborn shoulder, and their ears they made heavy from hearing.


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And their heart they set a diamond from hearing the instruction and the words which Jehovah of armies sent by his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: and there will be great wrath from Jehovah of armies.


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And it will be as he called and they heard not; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of armies:


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And I will toss them about among all the nations which they knew not: and the land was desolate after them from passing through and from turning back: and they shall set the land of desire for a desolation.


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Thus said Jehovah of armies: I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy and with great wrath was I jealous for her.


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Thus said Jehovah: I turned back to Zion, and I dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem was called, The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of armies, The holy mountain.


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Thus said Jehovah of armies: Yet shall old men and old women sit in the broad places of Jerusalem, and a man his support in his hand from the multitude of days.


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Thus said Jehovah of armies: If it shall be wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, also shall it be wonderful in mine eyes, says Jehovah of armies:


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Thus said Jehovah of armies: Behold me saving my people from the land of the sun rising, and from the land of the going down of the sun.


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And I brought them, and they dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem: and they were to me for a people, and I will be to them for God, in truth and in justice.


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Thus said Jehovah of armies: Your hands shall be strong, ye bearing in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day the house of Jehovah of armies was founded for the temple to be built.


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For before these days there was no hire of man, and not any hire of cattle; and to him going out, and to him coming in, no peace from the straits: and I will send all the men each against his neighbor.


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For the seed of peace; the vine shall give her fruit and the earth shall give her produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I caused the remnant of this people to inherit all these.


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And it was as ye were a curse in the nations, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so I will save you, and ye were a praise: ye shall not fear; your hands shall be strengthened.


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For thus said Jehovah of armies; As I had in mind to do evil to you in your fathers provoking me to anger, said Jehovah of armies, and, I lamented not.


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So I turned back; I had in mind in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: ye shall not fear.


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These the words which ye shall do: speak the truth each with his neighbor; truth and the judgment of peace judge ye in your gates.


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And ye shall not purpose evil, a man to his neighbor, in your heart; and ye shall not love the oath of falsehood: for all these which I hated, says Jehovah.


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Thus said Jehovah of armies: The fast of the fourth, 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 for gladness, and for good appointments; and love ye truth and peace.


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And the inhabitants of one went to one, saying, We will go, going to beseech the face of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of armies: I will go also.


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And many peoples and strong nations came to seek Jehovah of armies in Jerusalem, and to beseech the face of Jehovah.


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Thus said Jehovah of armies: In those days, that ten men shall take hold from all tongues of the nations, and they took hold of the wing of a man a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we heard God is with you.


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The lifting up of the word of Jehovah in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus its gift: when to Jehovah the eye of man and all the tribes of Israel.


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And Tyre will build for herself a fortress, and she will heap up silver as the dust, and gold as the mud of the streets.


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Behold, Jehovah will dispossess her, and he struck her strength in the sea; and she shall be devoured by fire.


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Ashkelon shall see and shall fear; and Gaza, and she shall be greatly pained, and Ekron; for her confidence was ashamed; and the king perished from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.


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And I took away his bloods from his mouth, and his abominable things from between his teeth: and being left he also to our God, and he was a thousand in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.


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And I encamped at my house a garrison from him passing by, and from him turning back: and he driving shall no more pass through against them: for now I saw with mine eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; make a loud noise, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king shall come to thee: just, and saving; he is humble and riding upon an ass, and upon an ass's colt the son of asses.


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And I cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war was cut off: and he spake peace to the nations: and his dominion from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the end of the earth.


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Turn back to the fortress, ye captives of hope: also announcing this day I will turn back double to thee;


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For I tread out Judah to me, I filled the bow with Ephraim, and I raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and I set thee as the sword of the strong one.


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And Jehovah will be seen upon them, and his arrow shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord Jehovah will strike upon the trumpet, and he went with tempests of the south.


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Jehovah of armies shall protect over them; and they devoured and subdued with the stones of the sling; and they drank, they made a noise as from wine; and they filled as the vase, as the corners of the altar.


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And Jehovah their God saved them in that day as the sheep of his people: for the stones of consecration, lifting themselves up in his land.


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For what his good, and what his beauty! Grain shall cause the young men to increase, and new wine the virgins.


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Ask ye from Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain; Jehovah made lightnings, and he will give rain of heavy showers to them, to each the green herb in the field.


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For the family gods spake vanity, and the diviners saw falsehood, and they will speak dreams of falsehood they will comfort in vain: for this, they removed as a flock, they were afflicted for there was no shepherd.


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Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I will review upon the he goats: for Jehovah of armies reviewed upon his flock the house of Judah, as the house of his strength in the war.


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From him the chief, from him the nail, from him the bow of war, from him came forth every tyrant together.


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And they were as the strong treading down in the mud of the streets in the battle: and they waged war, for Jehovah was with them, and they riding horses were ashamed.


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And I strengthened the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I turned them back for I compassionated them, and they were as if I cast them not off: for I am Jehovah their God, and I will answer them.


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And they were as the strong one of Ephraim, and their heart rejoiced as from wine: and their sons shall see, and rejoice; their heart shall exult in Jehovah.


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And I will sow them among the peoples, and in distant places shall they remember me: and they lived with their sons, and turned back.


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And I turned them back from the hind of Egypt, and from Assur will I gather them, and to the land of Gilead and Lebanon will I bring them; and it shall not be found for them.


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And he passed through the sea of straits, and he struck the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the river dried up; and the pride of Assur was brought down, and the rod of Egypt shall depart.


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Wail, O cypress, for the cedar fell; for the powerful ones were destroyed: wail, ye oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage went down.


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A voice of wailing of the shepherds, for their greatness was destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of Jordan was destroyed.


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Which they possessing them will slaughter them, and they will not be punished: and they selling them will say, Blessed be Jehovah; and I shall be rich: and their shepherds had not pity upon them.


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For I will no more have pity upon the inhabitants of the land, says Jehovah: and behold, the men to be found each in the hand of his neighbor, and in the hand of his king: and they beat the land, and I will not deliver from their hand.


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And I will feed the flock of slaughter for you, and the poor of the sheep: And I will take to me two rods; to the one I called Beauty, and to the one, I called Cords; and I will feed the sheep.


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And I will conceal three shepherds in one month; and my soul will be shortened for them, and also their soul loathed for me.


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And saying, I will not feed you: the dying shall die, and the concealed shall be concealed; and they being left shall eat each the flesh of her neighbor.


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And I will take my rod Beauty, and I will cut it off, to break my covenant which I cut out with all the peoples.


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And it shall be broken in that day: and the poor of the flock watching me knew that it was the word of Jehovah.


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And saying to them, If good in your eyes, give ye my hire; and if not, desist. And they will weigh my hire, thirty of silver.


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And Jehovah will say to me, Cast it to the potter: a splendor of price which I was prized of them. And I shall take the thirty of silver and cast it in the house of Jehovah, to the potter.


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And I shall cut off my second rod, Cords, to break the brotherhood between Judah and between Israel.


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For behold, I raise up a shepherd in the land, he shall not review those being concealed; the youth he shall not seek, and he shall not heal the broken, and he shall not nourish the standing firmly: and he shall eat the flesh of the fading, and he shall break their hoofs.


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Wo! to the empty shepherd forsaking the sheep; the sword upon his arm, and upon his right eye: and his arm being dried up, shall be dried up, and his right eye being dim, shall be dim.


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The Lifting up of the word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, stretching forth the heavens and founding the earth, and forming the spirit of man in the midst of him.


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Behold, I set Jerusalem a dish of reeling to all peoples round about, and against Judah shall he be in the straitness against Jerusalem.


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And it was in that day I will set Jerusalem a stone of burden to all peoples: all loading her, being out; shall be cut; and all the nations of the earth were gathered together against her.


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In that day, says Jehovah, I will strike every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and upon the house of Judah I will open mine eyes, and every horse of the peoples I will strike with blindness.


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And the thousands of Judah said in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem strength to me in Jehovah of armies their God.


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In that day I will set the thousands of Judah as a fire-pan of fire among the woods, and as a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they devoured upon the right and upon the left all the peoples round about: and Jerusalem shall yet dwell in her place in Jerusalem.


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And Jehovah saved the tents of Judah first, so that the glorying of the house of David shall not be magnified, and the glorying of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, against Judah.


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In that day Jehovah shall protect about the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he being weak among them in that day was as David; and the house of David as God, as the messenger of Jehovah before them.


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And I poured out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications: and they looked to me whom they pierced, and they mourned for him as mourning for the only begotten, and being embittered for him as being embittered for the first-born.


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In that day the mourning shall be magnified as the mourning of Hadad-Rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


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And the land mourned, families, families by themselves; the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of giving by itself, and their wives by themselves.


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The family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of hearing by itself, and their wives by themselves.


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In that day shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for putting away.


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And it was in that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will cut off the names of the images from 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 was if a man shall yet prophesy, and his father and his mother who begat him, said to him, Thou shalt not live, for thou spakest falsehood in the name of Jehovah: and his father and his mother begetting him thrust him through in his prophesying.


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And it was in that day the prophets shall be ashamed, each of his vision, in his prophesying; and they shall not put on a mantle of hair to speak lies:


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And saying to him, What these wounds between thy hands? And he said, Which I was struck in the house of those loving me.


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O sword, be raised up against my shepherd, and against the man of my fellowship, says Jehovah of armies: strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered; and I turned back my hand upon the little ones.


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And it was in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off, they shall expire; and the third shall be left in it.


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And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.


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And I gathered all the nations against Jerusalem for war; and the city was taken, and the houses were plundered, and the women shall be ravished; and half the city shall go forth into captivity, and the people being left shall not be cut off from the city.


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And Jehovah went forth and waged war with these nations as the day of his warring in the day of encounter.


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And his feet stood in that day upon the mount of Olives which is upon the face of Jerusalem from the east; and the mount of Olives was cleft asunder from its half from the sunrising and the sea, and a very great valley; and half of the mountain removed to the north, and its half to the south.


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And ye fled to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to the side, and ye fled as ye fled from the face of the shaking in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and Jehovah my God came, all the holy ones with thee.


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And it was one day it shall be known to Jehovah, not day, and not night: and it was at the time of evening it shall be light.


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And it was in that day living waters went forth from Jerusalem: half of them to the former sea, and half of them to the last sea: in summer and in autumn shall it be.


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He shall surround all the land as the desert from the hill to the pomegranate south of Jerusalem: and it was high, and she dwelt in her place from the gate of Benjamin even to the place of the first gate, even to the gate of the corner, and the tower of Hananeel even to the wine-presses of the king.


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And they shall dwell in her and destruction shall be no more: and Jerusalem shall be confidently dwelt in.


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And this shall be the smiting which Jehovah will smite all the peoples who made war upon Jerusalem; and he caused his flesh to pine away, and he stood upon his feet, and his eyes shall pine away in their holes, and his tongue shall pine away in their mouth.


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And it was in that day there shall be great consternation of Jehovah among them; and they laid hold each upon the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall come up upon the hand of his neighbor.


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And also Judah shall wage war in Jerusalem; and he gathered the strength of all the nations round about, gold and silver and garments to an exceeding multitude.


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And thus shall be the smiting of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the ass, and all the cattle which shall be in those camps, as this smiting.


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And every one being left of all the nations coming against Jerusalem, and they went up from year to year to worship to the king, Jehovah of armies, to keep a festival, the festival of booths.


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And it was who will not come up of the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship to the king, Jehovah of armies, and upon them shall not be rain.


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And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, and it not coming, and not upon them there shall be the smiting which Jehovah shall smite the nations which will not come up to keep the festival, the festival of booths.


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This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all the nations which will not come up to keep the festival, the festival of booths.


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In that day shall be upon the bells of the horse, Holiness to Jehovah; and it was the pots in the house of Jehovah as vases before the face of the altar.


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And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah was holiness to Jehovah of armies: and all sacrificing came and took of them, and boiled in them: and the Canaanite shall be no more in the house of Jehovah in that day.


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I loved you, said Jehovah. And ye said, In what didst thou love us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob? says Jehovah: and loving Jacob.


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And I hated Esau, and I will set his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance for the jackals of the desert.


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For Edom will say, We were broken down, and we will turn back and build the wastes; thus said Jehovah of armies: They shall build and I will pull down; and calling to them, The bound of injustice, and, The people with whom Jehovah was very angry, even to forever.


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And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah will be magnified from above to the bound of Israel.


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A son will honor the father, and the servant his lord; and if I a father, where mine honor? and if I their lord, where my fear? said Jehovah of armies to you, O priests despising my name. And ye said, In what did we despise thy name?


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Bringing polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye said, In what did we pollute thee? In your saying, The table of Jehovah it was despised.


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And if ye shall bring near the blind for a sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye shall bring near the lame and the sick, is it not evil? bring A near now to thy governor; will he delight in thee, or lift up thy face? said Jehovah of armies.


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And now, beseech now, the face of God, and he will be gracious to us: this was from your hand: will he lift up from you the faces? says Jehovah of armies.


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Who also among you and he will shut the doors? and ye shall not make light mine altar gratuitously. Not to me delight in you, said Jehovah of armies, and I will not delight in the gift of your hand.


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For from the rising of the sun and even to its going down, great my name among the nations; and in every place incense being brought to my name, and a clean gift: for great my name among the nations, said Jehovah of armies.


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And ye profaning it in your saying, The table of Jehovah it being polluted; and its fruit, its food was despised.


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And ye said, Behold, what a weariness! and ye puffed at it, said Jehovah of armies; and ye brought the spoiled and the lame, and the sick; and ye brought the gift: shall I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah.


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And cursed he deceiving, and there is in his flock a male, and he vowed and sacrificed a corrupt thing to Jehovah: for I am a great king, said Jehovah of armies, and my name terrible among the nations.


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If ye will not hear and if ye will not set upon your heart to give honor to my name, said Jehovah of armies, and I sent a curse upon you, and I cursed your blessings, and also I cursed it for your not setting upon the heart.


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Behold me rebuking the seed to you, and I scattered dung upon your faces, the dung of your festivals; and it lifted you up to it.


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And ye knew that I sent this command to you, for my covenant to be with Levi, said Jehovah of armies.


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My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I will give them to him fearing, and he shall fear me, and from the face of my name he was terrified.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: in truth and in uprightness he went with me, and he turned back many from iniquity.


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For the lips of the priest shall watch knowledge, and they shall seek the law from his mouth: for he is the messenger of Jehovah of armies.


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And ye departed out of the way; ye made many weak by the law; ye corrupted the covenant of Levi, said Jehovah of armies.


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And also I set you despised and low to all the people, according as ye watch not my way, and lift up the face against the law.


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Is there not one father to us all? is there not one God creating us? wherefore shall we deal faithlessly each against his brother, to profane the covenant of our fathers?


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Judah dealt faithlessly, and an abomination was done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah profaned the holy place of Jehovah which he loved, and married the daughter of a strange god.


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Jehovah will cut off to the man which shall do it, him waking, and him answering from the tents of Jacob, and him bringing near a gift to Jehovah of armies.


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And this ye will do the second time, covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, with weepings and shrieks, from not any more looking to the gift, and to take delight from your hand.


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And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant.


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And did he not make one? And the remainder of the spirit to him. And why one? Seeking a seed of God. And ye matched in your spirit, and he shall not deal faithlessly against the wife of thy youth.


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For he hated sending away, says Jehovah God of Israel: and he covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of armies: and ye watched in your spirit, and ye shall not deal faithlessly.


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Ye wearied Jehovah with your words: and ye said, In what did we weary? In your saying, Every one doing evil is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and he delighted in them; or, Where the God of judgment?


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Behold me sending my messenger, and he looked upon the way before my face: and suddenly Jehovah whom ye seek shall come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in: behold him coming, said Jehovah of armies.


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And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller.


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And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.


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And the sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem was pleasant to Jehovah, as the days of old and as the former years.


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And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.


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For from the days of your fathers ye departed from my laws, and ye watched not. Turn back to me and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies. And ye said, In what shall we turn back?


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Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings.


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Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency.


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And I rebuked upon the eater for you, and he shall not corrupt for you the fruit of the earth; and the vine in the field shall not be barren to you, says Jehovah of armies.


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Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies?


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And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.


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Then they fearing Jehovah spake each to his neighbor, and Jehovah will attend and will hear, and write a book of remembrance before him for those fearing Jehovah, and for thinking upon his name.


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And they were to me, said Jehovah of armies, for the day which I make wealth; and I spared for them as a man will spare for the son serving him.


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And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not.


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For behold, the day coming, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all doing injustice were straw: and the day coming burnt them, said Jehovah of armies, that it shall not leave to them root and branch.


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And to you fearing my name the sun of justice arose, and healing in his wings; and ye went forth and spread as calves of the stall.


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And ye tread down the unjust; for they were ashes under the soles of your feet in the day which I doing, said Jehovah of armies.


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Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the laws and the judgments.


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Behold, I send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the day of Jehovah, great and terrible:


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And he turned back the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to the fathers, lest I shall come and strike the earth with utter destruction.


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And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, being called Christ, the anointed.


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Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David, fourteen generations; and from David to the transferring of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the transferring of Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.


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And the generation of Jesus Christ was thus: for Mary his mother having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child by the Holy Ghost.


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And Joseph her husband being just, and not willing to expose her to disgrace, wished to let her go in secret.


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And reflecting upon these things, behold a messenger of the Lord appeared to him saying, Joseph, thou son of David, thou shouldest not fear to take to thyself Mary thy wife: for that begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit.


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And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins,


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And the whole of this has been that it might be completed having been spoken by the prophet, saying,


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Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.


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And he took to himself his wife, and knew her not till she brought forth her first born son: and be called his name Jesus.


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And Jesus born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold the magi from the sunrisings arrived in Jerusalem, saying:


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Where is he born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the sunrising, and have come to worship him.


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And assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born.


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And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, by no means art thou least among the leaders of Judah for out of thee shall come forth the leader, who shall feed my people.


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Then Herod having secretly called for the magi, searched thoroughly from them the time of the star appearing.


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And having sent them to Bethlehem, he said, Having gone, examine thoroughly concerning the child; and when ye should find, announce ye to me, so that I also, having gone, will worship him.


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And they having heard the king went forth; and, behold the star they saw in the sunrising, it led before them, till having come, it stood above where the young child was.


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And having come into the house, they found the young child with Mary his mother, and having fallen, they worshipped him; and having opened their treasures they brought forward to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.


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And having received intimation of the divine will in a dream not to turn back to Herod, by another way they went back to their own country.


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And they, having gone back, lo, the messenger of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Having risen, take to thyself the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt, and be there till I speak to thee; for Herod is about to seek the young child to destroy him.


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And having risen, he took to himself the young child and his mother by night, and turned back in Egypt:


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And was there till the death of Herod: that it might be completed having been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.


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Then Herod, seeing he was deluded by the magi, was very angry, and having sent, destroyed all the children which in Bethlehem, and in all its bounds, from two years and under, according to the time he examined thoroughly of the magi.


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A voice was heard in Rama, wailing, and weeping, and much lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, for they are not.


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And Herod having died, behold a messenger of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,


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Having risen, take to thyself the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they seeking the soul of the young child have died.


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And having heard that Archelaus reigned over Judea, instead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go there; and having received intimation of the divine will in a dream, he turned back into the parts of Galilee.


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And having come, he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be completed spoken by the prophets, That he shall be called a Nazarite.


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For this is he spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.


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And this John had his garment from camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.


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And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has indicated to you to flee from the wrath about to come?


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And think not to say in yourselves we have Abraham a father; for I say to you, that God can of these stones raise up children to Abraham.


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And now also the axe lies at the root of the trees; therefore every one not making good fruit is cut off and cast into fire.


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I truly immerse you in water to repentance; but he coming after me is stronger than I, whose shoes I am not fit to lift up; he shall immerse in the Holy Spirit, and fire.


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Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and gather his wheat into the store; but he will burn down the chaff in inextinguishable fire.


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And Jesus having answered said to him, Permit now; for so it is suitable for us to complete all justice: then he permitted him.


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And Jesus, having been immersed, went up straight from the water, and, behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.


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And behold a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented.


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And the tempter having come to him, said, If thou art the Son of God, say that these stones should become bread.


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And he having answered, said, It has been written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word going forth through the mouth of God.


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And says to him, If thou art the Son of God cast thyself down; for it has been written, That to his messengers he will command concerning thee; and in the hands shall they lift thee up, lest that perhaps thou strike thy foot against a stone.


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Again, the devil takes him into a very high mount, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory;


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Then says Jesus to him, Retire, Satan; for it has been written, The Lord thy God shalt thou worship, and him alone shalt thou serve.


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And having left Nazareth behind, having come, he dwelt in Capernaum, near the sea, in the boundaries of Zabulon and Nephthalim:


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The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations:


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The people sitting in darkness saw a great light; and to them sitting in the room and shadow of death, light has sprung up to them.


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From then Jesus began to proclaim, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.


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And Jesus, walking about by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon being called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a sweep-net into the sea; for they were fishermen.


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And having proceeded thence, he saw other two brethren, James him of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, adjusting their nets; and he called them.


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And Jesus went about the whole of Galilee, teaching in their assemblies, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing disease, and every weakness in the people.


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And a report went forth of him into the whole of Syria: and they brought to him all those having injuries, being oppressed by various diseases, and trials, and being under the influence of a demon, and being lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them.


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And many crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond Jordan.


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And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain; and he having sat down, his disciples came to him.


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Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake.


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Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you.


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Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.


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Neither do they burn a light, and set it under a basket, but upon a chandelier: and it shines to all in the house.


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So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.


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Think not that I have come to abolish the law, or the prophets: for I have come not abolish, but to complete.


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For verily I say to you, Till heaven pass away, and earth, one iota, or one mark, should not pass away from the law, till all should be.


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Whoever therefore, should loose one of the least of these commands, and so teach men, he shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens: but whoever should do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.


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For I say to you, That except your justice abound more than the scribes and Pharisees, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.


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Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill: and whoever should kill shall be subject to judgment:


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But I say to you, That every one becoming angry with his brother, shall be subject to judgment: and whoever should say to his brother, Raca, should be, subject to the council: and whoever should say, O foolish, shall be subject to a hell of fire.


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If therefore, thou bring thy gift upon the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother has anything against thee,


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Let go there thy gift, before the altar, and retire; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then, having come, bring thy gift.


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Be kindly disposed to thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest thy opponent should deliver thee to the judge, and the judge should deliver thee to the assistant, and thou be cast into prison.


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Verily I say to thee, Thou shouldst not come out thence, even till, thou shouldst give back the last fourth.


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But I say to you, That every one seeing a woman, to eagerly desire her, has already committed adultery with her, in his heart.


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And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members be destroyed, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.


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And if thy right hand give thee cause of offence, cut it off, and cast from thee; for it is profitable to thee, that one of thy members should be destroyed; and not thy whole body should be cast into hell.


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But I say to you, That whosoever shall let go his wife except for the reason of adultery, makes her to commit adultery; and whosoever should marry her having been loosed, commits adultery.


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Again, ye have heard, that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not swear a false oath, and thou shalt return to the Lord thine oaths.


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Neither by the earth; for it is the footstool of his feet: neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great kings.


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But I say to you, not to resist evil: but whosoever shall smite thee with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn to him also the other.


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But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out.


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So that ye might be sons of your Father, which in the heavens: for he makes his sun rise upon evil and good, and rains on the just and unjust.


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And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye above ordinary? and do not the tax collectors the same?


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Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens.


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When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.


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That thine alms might be in secret; and thy Father, who seeing in secret, shall give back to thee openly.


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And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love in the assemblies, and in the corners of the broad ways to stand praying, so that they might appear to men. Verily I say to you, that they have their reward.


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But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy store-house, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father who seeing in secret shall give back to thee openly.


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And praying, talk ye not vainly as the nations; for they think that by their profaneness of speech they shall be listened to.


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Therefore make not yourselves like them: for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye ask him.


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And thou shouldst not lead us into temptation, but deliver thou us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.


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And when ye fast, be not, as hypocrites, of gloomy aspect: for they conceal their faces that they might appear to men fasting. Verily I say to you, That they have their reward.


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That thou mightest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father which in secret, will give back to thee openly.


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Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:


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But treasure to you treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor gnawing destroy; and where thieves dig not through, nor steal.


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But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness.


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None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


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For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress?


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Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them.


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And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin:


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And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith!


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Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us?


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Therefore should ye not be anxious about the morrow: for the morrow shall be anxious about the things of itself. Sufficient for the day its evil.


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For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye measure, it shall be repaid to you.


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And why seest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, and the beam in thine eye thou observest not?


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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let go I will cast out the mote from thine eye: and behold a beam in thine eye.


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Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine eye, and thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote from thy brother's eye.


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Ye should not give the holy thing to dogs neither should ye cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their feet, and having turned, should rend you.


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If ye, therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children how much more will your Father which is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?


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Therefore all whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets.


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Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it.


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And hold from false prophets which come in to you in sheep's dresses, but within they are rapacious wolves.


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By their fruits shall ye know them. Far from it, do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from caltrops.


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Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.


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Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have we cast out evil spirits, and in thy name done many powers?


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Therefore, every one which hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a discerning man which built his house upon the rock.


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And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew, and fell upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon the rock.


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And every one hearing these my words and doing them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, which built his house upon sand.


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And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew and struck upon that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.


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And, behold, a leper, having come, worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt thou canst cleanse me.


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And having stretched forth the hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed and instantly his leprosy was cleansed.


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And Jesus says to him, See thou tell no one; but retire, show thyself to the priest, and bring near the gift which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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And the captain of a hundred having answered said, Lord, I am not fit that thou shouldest enter in under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed.


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For I also am a man under power, having soldiers under me: and I say to this, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does.


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And Jesus having heard, admired, and said to those following; Verily I say to you, not in Israel have I found such faith.


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And I say to you, That many shall come from the sunrising and the descents, and shall recline with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of the heavens.


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But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.


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And Jesus said to the captain of a hundred, Retire; as thou hast believed, let it be to thee. And his servant was healed in that hour.


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And Jesus, having come into Peter's house, saw his mother-in-law having been laid up, and affected with fever.


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And evening being come, they brought him many possessed with evil spirits: and he east out the spirits by the word, and cured all having evils:


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So that that spoken by Esaias the prophet was completed, saying. He took our weakness, and lifted up diseases.


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And Jesus says to him, The foxes have dens, and the fowls of heaven occupy nests; but the Son of man has not where he might recline the head.


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And, behold, a great shaking was in the sea, so that the ship was covered by the waves: and be slept.


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And he says to them, Why are ye timorous, ye of little faith? Then having risen, he censured the winds and sea; and there was a great calm.


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And he having come beyond the country of the Gergesenes, two possessed with evil spirits, coming out of the tombs, met him, very rough, so that not any could pass by that way.


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And, behold, they cried out, saying, What to us and thee, Jesus, Son of God? hast thou come here to torture us before the time.


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And the evil spirits besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.


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And he said to them, Retire. And having gone, they went away into the herd of swine: and, behold, all the herd of swine rushed down the precipice into the sea, and died in the water.


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And they feeding fled; and having come into the city, they announced all things, and those of the possessed with evil spirits.


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And, behold, all the city came forth to the meeting to Jesus: and seeing him, they besought that he would go away from their boundaries.


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And, behold, they brought him a paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Take courage, child thy sins are let go to thee.


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But that ye might know that the Son of man has power upon earth to let go sins, (then he says to the paralytic), Having risen, take up thy bed and retire to thy house.


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And Jesus, passing away from thence, saw a man sitting by the custom-house, being called Matthew, and he says to him, Follow me; and having risen he followed him.


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And it was he sitting at table in the house, and behold, many tax collectors and sinful, having come, sat at table with Jesus and his disciples.


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And the Pharisees, seeing, said to his disciples, Wherefore does your teacher eat with tax collectors and the sinful?


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And Jesus having heard, said to them, They being strong have no need of a physician, but they having evils.


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And having gone, learn what is this, I wish mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.


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Then came to him the disciples of John; saying, Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, The sons of the nuptial chamber cannot mourn inasmuch as the bridegroom is with them; but the days shall come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast.


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And no one puts on a cover of uncombed fragment upon an old garment, for its filling takes away from the garment, and the division is Worse.


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Neither do they cast new wine into old wine-skins: but if otherwise, the wine-skins burst, and the wine is poured out, and the wine-skins are destroyed; but they cast new wine into new wine-skins, and they are both preserved.


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He speaking these things to them, behold, a ruler, having come, worshipped him, saying; That my daughter has just now died: but having come, put thy hand upon her, and she shall live.


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And behold, a woman discharging blood twelve years, having come near behind, touched the hem of his garment:


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And Jesus having turned round, and seeing her, said, Take courage, daughter; thy faith has saved thee. And the woman was saved from that hour.


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And Jesus having come into the ruler's house, and seeing the flute players and the crowd making an uproar,


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But when the crowd was driven forth, having entered, he seized her hand, and the little girl was awakened.


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And Jesus passing from thence, two blind ones followed him, crying out and saying, Commiserate us, O son of David.


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And having come into the house, the blind came to him: and Jesus says to them, Believe ye that I can do this? They say to him, Yes, Lord.


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And the demon being cast out, the dumb, spake, and the crowd admired, saying, It was never so brought to light in Israel.


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And Jesus went about all the cities and towns, teaching in their assemblies, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every weakness in the people.


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And having seen the crowds, he felt compassion for them, for they were relaxed and dispersed, as sheep not having a shepherd.


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And having called his twelve disciples, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every weakness.


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And the names of the twelve sent are these: first, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James, he of Zebedee and John his brother;


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Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James, he of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, he surnamed Thaddeus;


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These twelve Jesus sent, having announced to them, saying, Go not in the way of the nations, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not.


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Cure the sick, cleanse the leprous, rouse the dead, cast out demons; as a gift ye have received, as a gift give.


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And to whatever city or town ye should come in, examine who in it is worthy; and there remain till ye go forth.


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And if the house should be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy let your peace return to you.


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And whoever should not receive you, nor hear your words, coming out of that house or that city, shake off the cloud of the dust of your feet.


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Verily I say to you, it shall be more supportable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.


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Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore discerning as serpents, and pure as doves.


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And hold ye from men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their assemblies will they scourge you.


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And ye shalt be brought before leaders and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.


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And when they deliver you up, have no care how or what ye should speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak.


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And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child: and children shall rise up in revolt against parents, and kill them.


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And when they drive you out in this city, flee ye to another; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not finish the cities of Israel till the Son of man come.


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Sufficient to the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzeboul, how much more those pertaining to his household?


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Therefore fear them not; for nothing has been covered, which shall not be revealed; and concealed, that shall not be known.


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What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the houses.


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And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.


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Are not two little sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the earth without your Father.


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Every one therefore who shall agree with me before men, I also will agree with him before my Father, him in the heavens.


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For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the bride against her mother-in-law.


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He loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me; and he loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me.


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He receiving a prophet in a prophet's name, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he receiving the just in the name of the just, shall take the reward of the just.


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And whoever should give to drink one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.


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And it was when Jesus finished ordering his twelve disciples, he went away from thence to teach and proclaim in all their cities.


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The blind receive sight, and the lame walk, the leprous are cleansed, and the deaf bear, the dead are roused, and the poor have good news announced.


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And these going forth, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye forth into the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind?


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But what went ye out to see? A man clad in soft garments? but they having soft things are in king's houses.


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For this is he for whom it was Written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.


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Verily I say to you, in the begotten of women has there not risen a greater than John the Immerser; but the less in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.


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From the days of John the Immerser till now the kingdom of the heavens is achieved by force, and they committing violence seize it eagerly.


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To what shall I liken this generation I it is like little boys sitting in market-places, and calling to their companions,


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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.


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Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and Sidon had been the powers being in you, long since had they repented in sackcloth and ashes.


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But I say to you, To Tyre and Sidon shall it be more supportable in the day of judgment, than to you.


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And thou, Capernaum, lifted up even to heaven, thou shalt he brought down to hades: for if in the people of Sodom had been the powers being in thee, they had remained till this day.


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But I say to you, That to the land of Sodom it shall be more supportable in the day of judgment, than to you.


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In that time Jesus having answered, said, I acknowledge to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for thou hast hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to children.


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All things were delivered to me by my Father; and none knows the Son, except the Father; nor knows any one the Father, except the Son, and to whom the Son will reveal.


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Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.


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In that time Jesus went in the sabbaths through the standing corn and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears, end eat.


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And the Pharisees, seeing, said to him, Behold, thy disciples do what is not lawful to do in the sabbath.


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How he went into the house of God, and ate the loaves of setting up, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor those with him, but for the priests alone?


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Or have ye not read in the law, that in the sabbaths, the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are innocent?


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And if ye knew what it is, I will mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the innocent.


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And, behold, there was a man having the hand withered. And they asked him saying, Is it lawful to cure in the sabbaths? that they might expose him.


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And he said to them, Which of you shall be the man who shall have one sheep, and if this should fall into a pit in the sabbaths, will he not take hold of it, and raise it up?


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Then says he to the man, Stretch out thy hand; and he stretched it out; and it was restored, sound as the other.


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Behold my servant, which I have chosen: my dearly beloved, in whom my soul was contented; I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim judgment to the nations.


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He shall not break a bruised reed, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he should draw forth judgment to victory.


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Then he possessed with a demon, blind, and dumb, was brought to him; and he cured him, so that the blind and dumb spake and saw also.


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And Jesus knowing their reflections, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.


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And I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast out? for this shall they be your judges.


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Or how can any one come into the house of the strong, and plunder his goods, except be first bind the strong? and then he will plunder his house.


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For this I say to you, All sin and blasphemy shall be let go to men; but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not be let go to men.


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And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be remitted to him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be let go to him, neither in this time, nor that about to be.


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Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree rotten, and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by its fruit.


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O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks.


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The good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, casts forth good things: and the evil man, out of the evil treasure, casts forth evil things.


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And I say to you, That every idle word which men speak, they shill return word for it in the day of judgment.


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Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, Teacher, we wish to see a sign from thee.


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And he having answered, said to them, An evil generation and an adulteress seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.


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For as Jonas was in the whale's belly three days and three nights; so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.


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The Ninevite men shall rise up in judgment with this generation, and condemn it: for they repented at the proclamation of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas here.


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The queen of the South shall be raised up in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for she came from the end of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon here.


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And when the unclean spirit has gone out from a man, he passes through sterile places, seeking rest, and finds not.


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Then says he, I will return into my house, whence I came out; and having come, he finds vacant; having been swept, and put in order.


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Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits, worse than he, and having come in, they dwell there: and the last things of that man are worse than the first. So also shall it be to this evil generation.


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And he yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.


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And a certain one said to him, Behold, thy mother, and thy brethren stand without, seeking to speak to thee.


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And having stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren!


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For whoever should do the will of my Father, him in the heavens, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.


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And many crowds were assembled together to him; therefore having entered into the ship, he sat down, and all the crowd stood upon the sea-shore.


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And others fell upon rocky places where it had not much earth, and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no depth of earth.


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And others fell upon good earth and gave fruit, some truly a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty.


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And having answered, he said to them, For to you it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it was not given.


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For whoever has shall be given to him, and he shall have in excess; and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him.


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For this I speak to them in parables: for seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.


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And the prophecy of Esaias is filled up in them, saying, In hearing shall ye hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.


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For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.


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For verily I say to you, that many prophets and just desired eagerly to see what ye see, and saw not; and to hear what ye hear, and heard not.


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Every one hearing, and not understanding, the evil one comes, and carries off that sown in his heart. This is he having sown by the way.


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And he having sown upon rocky places, this is he hearing the word, and quickly with joy receiving it;


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And has no root in himself, but is for a time; and there being pressure or expulsion for the word, straightly is he offended.


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And he having sown among thorns, this is he hearing the word; and the care of this time, and the deceit of riches, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.


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But he having sown upon good earth is he hearing the word, and understanding; who indeed bears fruit, and who makes truly a hundred, and who sixty, and who thirty.


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Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens was made like a man sowing good seed in his field:


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And the servants of the master of the house having come, said to him, Lord, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field whence therefore has it tares?


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And he said to them, A man, an enemy, has done this: and his servants said to him, Wilt thou therefore we, having departed, should gather them.


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Suffer both to grow together till harvest; and in time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; and gather the wheat into my barn.


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Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a kernel of mustard, which a man taking, sowed in his field:


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Which truly is less than all seeds; but when it has grown, it is greater than vegetables, and becomes a tree, so that the flying things of heaven come and lodge in its young shoots.


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Another parable spake he to them; The kingdom of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of wheaten flour, till the whole was leavened.


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So that that spoken by the prophet might be filled up; saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things having been hid from the foundation of the world.


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Then Jesus having dismissed the crowds, went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.


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And the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;


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And the enemy having sowed them is the devil; and the harvest is the end of time; and the reapers are the messengers.


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As therefore the tares are gathered together and burnt in fire; so shall it be in the end of this time.


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The Son of man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and those doing iniquity;


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And they shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall there be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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Then shall the just emit a brilliant light as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He having ears to hear, let him hear.


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Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a treasure hid in the field; which a man finding, concealed, and from his joy, he retires, and all things which he has he sells, and he purchases that field.


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Who, finding one pearl of great value, having departed, he sold all things which he had, and purchased it.


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Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a large sweep-net, cast into the sea, and having gathered of every kind:


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Which when it was filled, having raised up upon the shore, and having set down, they gathered the good things into vessels, and the rotten things they cast without.


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So shall it be in the end of time; the messengers shall come forth, and separate the evil from the midst of the just,


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And he said to them, Therefore every scribe, having been a disciple in the kingdom of the heavens, is like to a man, master of a house, who casts out from his treasure new things and old.


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And having come into his native land, he taught them in their assembly, so that they were struck with amazement, and said, Whence to him this wisdom, and powers?


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Is not this the son of the carpenter? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?


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And they were scandalized in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in his house.


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And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; be was aroused from the dead; and for this, powers are energetic in him.


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For Herod, having seized John, bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias, his brother Philip's wife:


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The festivities of Herod's birthday being celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.


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And having been urged on by her mother, Give me, she says, here upon a board, the head of John the Baptist.


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And the king was grieved: but for his oath, and those reclining together at the table, he ordered to be given.


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And his disciples having come near, took away the body, and interred it; and having come, they announced to Jesus.


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And Jesus having heard, withdrew from thence into a desert place apart: and the crowds, having heard, followed him on foot from the cities.


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And being evening, his disciples came to him, saying, It is a desert place, and the time has passed already; loose the crowds, that, having gone into towns, they might purchase food for themselves.


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And having encouraged the crowds to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves, and two fishes, and having looked up to heaven, he praised; and having broken, gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.


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And they all ate, and were satisfied; and they took up the remaining of fragments, twelve baskets full.


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And quickly Jesus constrained his disciples to go into the ship, and to go before him to the other side, till he should loose the crowds.


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And having loosed the crowds, he went up into a mount apart to pray: and being evening, he was there alone.


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And the disciples seeing him walking upon the sea, were troubled, saying, It is an apparition; and they cried out for fear.


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And he said, Come. And Peter having gone down from the ship, walked upon the waters, to go to Jesus.


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And quickly Jesus, having stretched out the hand, laid hold of him, and says to him, O thou of little faith, for what didst thou doubt?


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And the men of the place, having known him, sent into the whole country round about, and brought to him all those having evils:


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And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were saved from danger.


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Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.


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And he, having answered, said to them, Wherefore do ye also pass by the command of God by your tradition.


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For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, he calumniating father or mother, in death let him die.


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And ye say, Whoever should say to father or mother, A gift, whatever thou shouldest be profited by me;


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And should not honour his father or his mother. And ye have annulled the command of God by your tradition.


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This people draw near me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart keeps off far from me.


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Not that coming into the mouth pollutes the man; but that going forth out of the mouth, this pollutes the man.


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Then his disciples having come near, said to him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were scandalized?


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And having answered, he said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.


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Let them go: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.


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Do ye not yet understand, that everything going into the mouth proceeds to the belly, and is cast out in the privy?


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For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:


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And, behold, a woman, a Canaanite, having come forth from those boundaries, cried out to him, saying, Pity me, Lord, son of David; my daughter is badly possessed with an evil spirit.


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And he answered her not a word. And his disciples, having come, asked him, saying, Loose her; for she cries out after us.


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And he, having answered, said, I was not sent except to the sheep having been lost, of the house of Israel.


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And he, having answered, said, It is not good to take the children's bread, and cast it to the little dogs.


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And she said, Yes, Lord; for the little dogs also eat from the crumbs falling from the table of their lord.


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Then Jesus, having answered, said to her, O woman, great thy faith: let it be to thee as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.


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And having passed from thence, Jesus came to the sea of Galilee; and having gone up into a mountain, he sat there.


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And many crowds came to him, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them at the feet of Jesus; and he cured them:


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So that the crowds wondered, seeing the dumb speaking, the maimed sound, the lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they praised the God of Israel.


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And Jesus having called his disciples, said, I feel compassion for the crowd, for already they remain with me three days, and they have nothing they could eat: and I will not leave them fasting, lest they be relaxed in the way.


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And his disciples say to him, Whence to us, in a lonely place, so many loaves, to satisfy such a crowd?


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And having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having returned thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.


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And all ate, and were satisfied: and they took up that remaining of the fragments seven wicker baskets full.


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And he having answered, said to them, It being evening, ye say, Calm weather: for the heaven is fiery red.


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And in the morning, Today, wintry weather: for heaven, being sad, is fiery red. Hypocrites, truly ye know to decide the face of heaven, but the signs of the times ye cannot.


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An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; and no sign shall be given her, except the sign of Jonas the prophet. And having left them, he departed.


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And Jesus having known, said to them, Why reason ye among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have taken no loaves.


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Do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of five thousand, and how many baskets ye took?


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How do ye not understand that I spake not to you concerning bread, to keep from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?


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Then understood they that he spake, not to keep from the leaven of bread, but from the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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And Jesus, having come into the parts of Caesarea of Philippi, asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say me to be, the Son of Man?


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And they said, Some, truly, John the Baptist: and others, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.


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And Jesus, having answered, said to him, Happy art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed to thee, but my Father, he in the heavens.


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And I say to thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church; and the gates of hell shall not overcome her.


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And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens: and whatever thou shalt bind upon earth shall be bound in the heavens: and whatever thou shalt loose upon earth shall be loosed in the heavens.


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From then Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he must depart to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised in the third day.


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And Peter having taken him, began to reproach him, saying, Be propitious to thyself, Lord: this shall not be to thee.


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And having turned, he said to Peter, Retire behind me, Satan: thou art an offence, to me: for thou hast not in mind the things of God, but the things of men.


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Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any wish to come after me, let him deny himself absolutely, and lift up his cross, and follow me.


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For whoever should wish to save his life shall lose it: and whoever shall lose his soul for my sake shall find it.


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For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?


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For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his messengers; and then he will give back to each according to his deed.


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Verily I say to you, Some are standing here, who should not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.


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And after six days Jesus takes Peter, James, and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart.


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And he was transformed before them: and his face shone as the sun, and his garments were white as the light.


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And Peter, having answered, said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: let us make here three tents; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.


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He yet speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son, in whom I was contented; hear ye him.


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And they, coming down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the sight to none, even till the Son of man rises from the dead.


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And I say to you, That Elias has already come, and they knew him not, but did by him whatever they would. So also the Son of man is about to suffer by them.


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And they having come to the crowd, there came to him a man, supplicating on his knees to him, and saying,


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Lord, pity my son: for he is a lunatic, and suffers badly: for many times he falls into the fire, and many times into the water.


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And Jesus, having answered, said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you how long shall I endure you? bring him here to me.


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And Jesus censured him; and the demon went forth out of him: and the child was cured from that hour.


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And Jesus said to them, For your unbelief: for truly I say to you, If ye have faith as a kernel of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Go away from thence, and it shall go away; and nothing shall be impossible to you.


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And they having returned into Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man is about to be delivered into the hands of men:


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And they having come to Capernaum, they taking double drachmas came to Peter and said, Does not your teacher pay double drachmas?


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He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What seems to thee, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth take taxes or census? from their sons, or from strangers?


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But that we should not scandalize them, having gone to the sea, cast a fish hook, and lift up the fish coming up first, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a gold coin: having taken that, give to them for me and thee.


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And said, Truly I say to you, Except ye be turned, and become as young children, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.


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Whoever, therefore, should be humbled as this young child, the same is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens.


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And whoever should offend one of these little ones believing in me, it is profitable for him that the millstone of an ass be hung upon his neck, and he be sunk in the midst of the sea.


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Woe to the world for offences I for there is necessity for offences to come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comes!


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And if thy hand or thy foot give thee cause of offence, cut them off, and cast from thee: it is good for thee to come into life lame or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into eternal fire.


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And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and east from thee: it is good for thee, one-eyed, to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into a hell of fire.


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See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That their messengers in the heavens always behold the face of my Father which is in the heavens.


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What does it seem to you? if there be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them have been led astray, does he not, having left the ninety-nine upon the mountains, having gone, seek the one led astray?


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And if it be found, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it, than over the ninety-nine not led astray.


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And if thy brother sin against thee, retire, and refute him between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.


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But if he hear thee not, take with thee yet one or two, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might stand.


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And if he refuse hearing them, speak to the church: and if he refuse hearing the church, let him be to thee as of the nations and a publican.


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Truly I say to you, Whatever things ye should bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever things ye should loose upon earth shall be loosed in heaven.


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Again, I say to you, That if two of you agree in opinion for everything which they ask, it shall be to them of my Father, he in the heavens.


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Then Peter, having come to him, said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I let him go? Till seven times?


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Therefore the kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, the king, who wished to lift up the word together with his servants.


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And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back.


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Then the servant, having fallen, worshipped him, saying, Lord, be slow to anger towards me, and I will give back all to thee.


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But that servant having come, found one of his fellow-servants who owed him one hundred drachmas, and having seized, he choked him, saying, Give back to me what thou owest.


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Then his fellow-servant having fallen at his feet besought him, saying, Be slow to anger towards me, and I will give back all to thee.


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And he would not; but having departed he cast him into prison till he should give back that being owed.


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And his fellow-servants having seen the thing done, were greatly grieved, and having come, made known to their lord all things done.


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Then his lord, having called him, said unto him, O thou evil servant, I let go to you all that debt since thou besoughtest me:


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And his lord having become angry, delivered him to the torturers even till he should give back all being owed to him.


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So also will my heavenly Father do to you, if ye let not go each to his brother from your hearts their falls.


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And it was when Jesus finished these words he removed from Galilee, and came from the bounds of Judea beyond Jordan;


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And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to loose his wife for every cause.


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And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female,


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And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?


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So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.


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He says to them that Moses for your hard heart permitted you to loose your wives: and from the beginning it was not so.


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And I say to you, That whoever should loose his wife, except for fornication, and marry another, commits adultery; and he having married the one loosed commits adultery.


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His disciples say to him, If the cause of a man is so with the woman, it is not profitable to marry.


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For there are eunuchs, who were born so from the mother's belly: and there are eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of the heavens. He being able to receive, let him receive.


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Then young children were brought to him, that he might put hands upon them and pray: and the disciples censured them.


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But Jesus said, Let go the young children, and hinder them not, to come to me: for of such is the kingdom of the heavens.


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And, behold, one having come said to him, Good teacher, what good shall I do, that I might have eternal life?


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And he said to him, Why sayest thou me good? None is good except one, God; but if thou wouldst come into life, keep the commands.


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He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, thus: Thou shalt not murder; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness;


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Jesus said to him, If thou wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.


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And the young man having heard the word, departed, being grieved: for he was holding many possessions.


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And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, That with difficulty shall a rich one come into the kingdom of the heavens.


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And again I say to you, It is of easier labor for a camel to pass through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus having looked up said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.


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Then Peter having answered, said to him, Behold, we have let go all things, and have followed thee; what therefore shall be to us?


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And Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, That ye having followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man should sit upon the throne of his glory, shall be seated ye also upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And every one who lets go houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.


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For the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, master of a house, who went out as soon as morning to hire workmen for his vineyard.


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And he says to them, Retire ye also into the vineyard, and whatever should be just I will give you: and they departed.


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And about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing idle, and he says to them, Why stand ye here idle the whole day?


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They say to him, That none has hired us. He says to them, Retire also to the vineyard; and whatever be just, ye shall receive.


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And it being evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen, and give back to them the wages, beginning from the last even to the first.


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And the first, having come, thought that they will receive more; and they also received thereupon a drachma.


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Saying, That these last worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, having borne the burden and heat of the day.


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And he, having answered, said to one of them, Friend, I injure thee not; didst not thou agree with me for a drachma?


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Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,


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And they shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and scourge, and crucify: and he shall be raised the third day.


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Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, worshipping, and asking something of him.


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And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Say that these my two sons might sit, the one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom.


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And Jesus having answered, said, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink, and be immersed with the immersion which I am immersed? They say to him, We can.


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And he says to them, Truly my cup shall ye drink, and with the immersion which I am immersed shall ye be immersed; but to sit on my right, and on my left, is not mine to give, but to those it was prepared for by my Father.


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But Jesus, having called them, said, Ye know that the rulers rule over their nations, and the great exercise authority over them.


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But it shall not be so among you; but whoever should wish to be great among you, let him be your attendant;


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And, behold, two blind sitting by the way, having heard that Jesus passes by, cried out, saying, Pity us, O Lord, son of David.


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And the crowd censured them that they should be silent: but they cried the more, saying, Pity us, O Lord, son of David.


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And Jesus, having felt compassion, touched their eyes: and quickly their eyes looked up, and they followed him.


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And when they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, to the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying to them,


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Go ye into the town opposite to us, and quickly shall ye find an ass bound, and a colt with her; having loosed, bring to me.


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And if any one say to you, Why? ye shall say, That the Lord has need of them; and quickly will he send them.


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Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy king comes to thee, meek, and mounted upon an ass, and a colt, son of a beast of burden.


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And a very great crowd strewed their garments in the way; and others cut down young shoots from the trees, and strewed in the way.


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And the crowds leading before, and following, cried, saying, Osanna to the son of David: he coming in the name of the Lord being praised; Osanna in the highest ones.


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And Jesus came into the temple of God, and cast out all those selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the money-changers tables, and the seats of those selling doves,


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And he says to them, It was written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; and ye have made it a den of robbers.


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And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things which he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Osanna to the son of David; they felt pain.


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And they said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yes; have ye never read, That out of the mouths of young children and sucklings thou hast adjusted praise?


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And having seen one fig tree by the way, he came to it, and found nothing on it, except leaves only; and he says to it, Let no more fruit be from thee forever. And instantly the fig tree was dried up.


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And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Truly I say to you, if ye have faith, and be not removed, ye shall do not only that of the fig tree, but also to this mountain, if ye should say, Be thou lifted up, and cast into the sea, it shall be.


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And to him, having come into the temple to him teaching, came the chief priests and elders of the people, saying, By what authority doest thou these? and who gave thee this authority?


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And Jesus, having answered, said to them, I will also ask you one word, which if ye tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these.


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The baptism of John, whence was it of heaven or of men And they reasoned by themselves, saying, If we say, of heaven; he will say to us, Why, then, believed ye him not?


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And having answered Jesus, they said, We know not. And he said to them, Neither do I say to you, by what authority I do these.


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But what seems to you A man had two children; and having come to the first, he said, Child, retire today, work in my vineyard.


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And having come to the second, he said likewise. And he, having answered, said, I, Lord: and he departed not.


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Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.


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For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him.


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Hear another parable: A certain man was master of a house, who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and digged in it a winepress, and let it out to farmers, and went abroad:


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And when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his parts.


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And the farmers having taken his servants, truly one they stripped, and one they killed, and one they stoned.


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And the farmers, seeing the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and possess his inheritance.


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They say to him, He will miserably destroy these wicked, and let out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.


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Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the writings, The stone which the builders disapproved of, this was for the head of the corner? This was from the Lord, and it was wonderful in your eyes.


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For this I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation doing its fruits.


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And he falling upon this stone shall be crushed: but upon whomsoever it should fall, it shall winnow him.


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And again, he sent other servants, saying, Say to the called: Behold, I have prepared my supper; my bulls and stall-fed killed, and all prepared: come to the nuptials.


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And the king, having heard, was angry, and having sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.


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Then says he to his servants, Truly the nuptial feast is prepared, and those called were not worthy.


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Go ye, therefore, to the passages of the ways, and as many as ye should find, call to the nuptial feast.


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And those servants, having come to the ways, gathered together all, as many as they found, also both the evil and good, and the nuptial feast was filled with the reclining.


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And the king, having come in to behold the reclining, saw there a man not clad with the garment of the wedding:


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And he says to him, Friend, how camest thou in here, not having a garment of the nuptial feast? And he was muzzled.


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Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.


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And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and care is to thee for none; for thou lookest not to the face of men.


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They say to him, Caesar's. Then says he to them, Give back then to Caesar the things of Caesar; and the things of God to God.


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Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.


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And with us were seven brethren: and the first, having married, died; and having no seed, he left his wife to his brother.


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And Jesus, having answered, said to them, Ye are led astray, not having known the writings, nor the power of God.


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For in the rising up they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the messengers of God in heaven.


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I am God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.


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And Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.


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Therefore all whatever they say to you to keep, keep and do; and according to their works do not, for they say and do not.


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For they bind loads heavy and difficult to carry, and put upon men's shoulders; and with their fingers will they not move them.


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And all their works do they, to be seen by men: and make broad their preservatives, and enlarge the border of their garments.


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And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whoever shall humble himself, shall be exalted.


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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.


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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for pretence, praying at great lengths; for this shall ye receive more distinguished judgment.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! for ye go about sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he should become, ye make him the son of hell, twofold more than you.


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Woe to you blind guides, saying, Whoever should swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever should swear by the gold of the temple, he is indebted!


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And, Whoever should swear by the altar, it is nothing; and whoever should swear by the gift above it, he is indebted.


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Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and the side dish of sweet-meats, and within they are full of pillage and bad mixture.


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O blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, and side dish of sweetmeats, that also their outside might be clean.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitewashed tombs, which without indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and deck the monuments of the just,


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And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we had not been their partakers in the blood of the prophets,


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Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and the wise, and scribes: and of them shall ye kill and crucify; and of them shall ye chastise in your assemblies, and drive out from city to city,


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So that all the just blood shed upon the earth might come upon you, from the blood of just Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye killed between the temple and altar.


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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those sent to her; how often did I wish to gather thy children together, which manner a bird gathers together her young broods under the wings, and ye would not!


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For I say to you, Ye should not see me from henceforth, till ye should say, Praised be he coming in the name of the Lord.


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And Jesus having gone out, went out of the temple: and his disciples came near to shew him the buildings of the temple.


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And Jesus said to them, See ye not all these? truly I say to you, Stone upon stone shall not be left here, which shall not be loosened.


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And sitting upon the mount of Olives, his disciples came to him apart, saying, Say to us when these shall be, and what the sign of thy arrival, and the termination of the time.


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And ye will be about to hear of wars and rumors of war: see, be not terrified; for all must be, but the end is not yet.


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For nation shall be raised up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and plagues, and shakings in places.


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Then shall they deliver you to pressure, and they shall kill you: and ye shall be hated by all nations, for my name.


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And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another.


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And this good news of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in the whole habitable globe for a witness to all nations: and then shall the end come.


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Therefore, when ye see the abomination of devastation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him reading, understand:)


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For then shall be great pressure, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor should be.


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And except those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the chosen, those days shall be shortened.


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For false Christs, and false prophets, shall be raised up, and give great signs and wonders; so as to deceive, if possible, also the chosen.


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If therefore they should say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth; Behold, in the store-houses, believe ye not.


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For as the lightning comes forth from the sunrisings, and shines to the descents; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man.


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And quickly after the pressure of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heavens, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;


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And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall the tribes of the earth lament bitterly, and they shall see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and much glory.


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And he shall send his messengers, with the great voice of the trumpet, and they shall bring together his chosen from the four winds, from the extremities of the heavens to the extremities.


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And from the fig tree learn a parable; When already her young shoot should be tender, and the leaves should spring forth, ye know that summer is near:


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And concerning that day and hour, none know, nor the messengers of the heavens, except my Father only.


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For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark,


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And knew not till the inundation came, and took them all away; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man.


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But know this, that if the master of the house had known what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and would not have suffered his house to be undermined.


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Who then is the faithful and discerning servant, which his lord set over his attendance, to give them food in due season.


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The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not,


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And he shall cut him in two equal parts, and he shall set his portion with the hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who having taken their lanterns, went forth to the meeting of the bridegroom.


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And in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye forth to his meeting.


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And the discerning answered, saying, Lest it should not suffice us and you: but go ye rather to those selling, and buy for yourselves.


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And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked.


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And to one he truly gave five talents, and to one, two, and to one, one; to each according to his own power; and he quickly went abroad.


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And he having received the five talents, having come near, brought the other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst me five talents: and I have gained other five talents.


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And his lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant: thou west faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord.


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And he also having received the two talents, having come near said, Lord, thou deliveredst me two talents; see, I gained two other talents to them.


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His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord.


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And he also having received one talent, having come near, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou sowedst not, and gathering where thou scatteredst not:


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And having been afraid, having gone away, I concealed thy talent in the earth; see, thou hast thine own.


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And his lord having answered, said to him, O evil and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I scattered not:


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Thou therefore oughtest to have cast my silver to the money-changers, and I having come, had received mine own, with interest.


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For to every one having shall be given, and he shall be in abundance: and from him not having, also what he has shall be taken away from him.


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And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.


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And when the Son of man should come in his glory, and all his holy messengers with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:


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And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids.


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Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:


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For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye brought me in:


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Then shall the just answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished or thirsting, and gave to drink.


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And the king having answered, will say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me.


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Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers:


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I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me.


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Then shall they answer him, they also saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and attended not to thee?


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Then shall he answer them saying, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me.


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Then were gathered together the chief priests, and scribes, and the more ancient of the people, into the court-yard of the chief priest, called Caiaphas,


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There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of costly perfumed ointment, and she poured upon the head of him, reclining at table.


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And Jesus having known, said to them, Why offer ye toils to the woman? for a good work has she worked upon me.


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Truly I say to you, Wheresoever this good news be proclaimed in the whole world, shall it also be spoken what she did, for a remembrance of her.


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Said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they placed to him thirty silver coins.


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And in the first of the unleavened loaves, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, Where wilt thou we should prepare for thee to eat the pascha?


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And he said, Retire ye into the city, to a certain person, and say to him, The teacher says, My time is near; with thee do I the pascha with my disciples.


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And he having answered, said, He having dipped with me the hand in the small dish, the same shall deliver me up.


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Truly the Son of man retires as has been written concerning him; and woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! it was good for him if that man had not been born.


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And Judas delivering him up, having answered, said, Far from it, am I, Rabbi? He said to him, Thou hast said.


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And they eating, Jesus, having taken the bread and praised, brake and gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.


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For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, having been poured out for many, for the remission of sins.


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And I say to you, that I drink not from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, even till that day when I drink it new with you, in the kingdom of my Father.


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Then says Jesus to them, All ye shall be scandalized in me this night; for it has been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered up and down.


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And Peter having answered, said to him, And if all men shall be scandalized in thee, I will never be scandalized.


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Jesus says to him, Truly I say to thee that in this night, before the cock utters a sound, thou shalt deny me thrice.


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Peter says to him, Though it should be necessary for me to die with thee, I will not deny thee: likewise also said all the disciples.


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Then comes Jesus with them into the place called Gethsemane, and says to the disciples, Sit here, till I, having gone, shall pray.


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And having gone forward a little, he fell upon his face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me: but not as I will, but as thou.


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And he comes to his disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, So were ye not able to watch with me one hour?


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Again of a second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying, My Father if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, let thy will be.


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Then comes he to his disciples, and says to them, Sleep for the remaining time, and take rest: behold, the hour has drawn near, and the Son of man is delivered into the hands of the sinful.


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And he yet speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great crowd, with swords, and sticks, from the chief priests, and the more ancient of the people.


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And he delivering him up, gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, the same is he: hold him firmly.


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And Jesus said to him, Friend, for what comest thou? Then having come near, they put hands upon Jesus, and held him firmly.


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And, behold, one of them with Jesus, having stretched out the hand, pulled out his sword, having struck the chief priest's servant, took away his ear.


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Then says Jesus to him, Turn back thy sword to its place: for all they having taken the sword, shall perish by the sword.


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Thinkest thou that I am not able to call to my Father for aid, and he will set before me more than twelve legions of messengers?


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In that hour, Jesus said to the crowds, As against a robber came ye out, with swords and sticks, to take me? In the day I sat down with you, teaching, and ye took not hold of me.


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But this has been wholly that the writings of the prophets might be filled up. Then all the disciples, having left him, fled.


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And they having held Jesus, brought to Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and elders were gathered together.


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And Peter followed him from far, even to the court-yard of the chief priest, and having entered within, he sat with the attendants, to see the end.


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And the chief priests, and the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;


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And afterwards two false witnesses, having come near, said, This said, I can loosen the temple of God, and after three days build it.


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And the chief priest, having risen, said to him, Answerest thou nothing? what do these witness against thee?


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But Jesus was silent. And the chief priest having answered, said to him, I cause thee to swear by the living God, that thou tell us, if thou art Christ, the Son of God.


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And Jesus says to him, Thou hast said: but I say to you, from henceforth ye shall see the Son of man, sitting from the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.


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Then the chief priest tore his garments, saying, That he blasphemed: what further need have we of witnesses? see, now ye have heard his blasphemy.


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And Peter sat without in the court-yard, and one young girl came to him saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.


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And he having gone out into the gate, another saw him, and she says to them there, This also was with Jesus the Nazarite.


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And a little after, those standing, having come near, said to Peter, Truly thou also art of them; for also thy speech makes thee manifest.


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Then began he to anathematize, and to swear, That I know not the man: and quickly the cock uttered a sound.


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And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, having said to him, That before the cock utter a sound, thou shalt deny me thrice. And having gone forth without, he wept bitterly.


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And having been morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to kill him:


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Then Judas, he delivering him up, having seen that he was condemned, having felt regret, returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests, and the more ancient,


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Saying, I have sinned, having delivered up guiltless blood. And they said, What to us? thou shalt see.


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And having cast down the silver coins in the temple, he withdrew and having gone away, he strangled him self.


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And the chief priests, having taken the silver coins, said, It is not lawful to cast them for an offering, since it is the price of blood.


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And having taken counsel, they purchased with them the potter's field, for the interment to strangers.


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Then was completed that having been spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of him prized, whom they from the sons of Israel prized;


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And Jesus stood before the leader: and the leader asked him, saying, Art thou King of the Jews? Jesus said to him, Thou sayest.


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And in the festival the leader was accustomed to loose one imprisoned to the crowd, which they desired.


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Therefore they assembled together, Pilate laid to them, Whom will ye I shall loose to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, called Christ?


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And he sitting upon the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Nothing to thee and that just one: for I have suffered this day many things in a dream, on his account.


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And the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.


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And the leader having answered, said to them, Which of the two will ye I shall loose to you? And they said, Barabbas.


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Pilate says to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, called Christ? They all say to him, Let him be crucified.


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And the leader said, For what evil hath he done? and they cried excessively, saying, Let him be crucified.


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And Pilate, seeing that it profits nothing, but there is rather an uproar, having taken water, he washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this just one: ye shall see yourselves.


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Then he loosed to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, delivered him up, that, he might be crucified.


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Then the soldiers of the leader, having taken Jesus to the Pretorium, gathered together the whole band against him.


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And having twined a crown of thorns, they put upon, his head: and a reed upon his right hand: and having fallen upon the knees before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!


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And when they mocked him, they put off from him the loose, warm cloak, and put on him his garments, and brought him away to crucify.


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And coming, they found a man, a Cyrenian, Simon by name; they compelled him that he should lift up his cross.


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And having crucified him, they divided his garments among them, casting lot: that that spoken by the prophet might be filled up: They divided among them my garments, and upon my clothing they cast lot.


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And they set above his head his accusation, having been written: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


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And saying, He loosing the temple, and building in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross.


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Others he saved; himself he cannot save. If he is King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him:


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He trusted upon God; let him now deliver him, if he desires him: for he said, That I am the Son of God.


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And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani I this is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And quickly one of them, having run, and taken a sponge, and filled with vinegar, and put upon a reed, gave him to drink.


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And, behold, the covering of the temple was cleft in two, from above to below; and the earth was shaken; and the rocks were cleft:


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And having come forth from the tombs, after his arising, went into the holy city, and were exhibited to many.


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And the centurion, and they with him, observing Jesus, having seen the shaking, and the things having been, were greatly afraid, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.


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Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's sons.


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And being evening, then there came a rich man from Arimathea, Joseph by name, who also himself was a disciple to Jesus:


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And put it in his new tomb, which he quarried in the rock: and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he departed.


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And in the morrow, which is after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate.


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Order therefore, the tomb to be rendered secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, should steal him, and say to the people, He was raised from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.


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And after the sabbaths, in the shining forth to one of the sabbaths, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to behold the tomb.


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And, behold, there was a great shaking; for a messenger of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, having come near, rolled away the stone from the door, and sat above it.


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And the messenger, having answered, said to the women, Be ye not afraid; for I know that ye seek Jesus, having been crucified.


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And having gone quickly, say ye to his disciples, that he was raised from the dead; and, behold, he leads before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him: behold I have said to you.


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And they having come quickly from the tomb, with fear and great joy, ran to announce to his disciples.


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And as they were going to announce to his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, Rejoice ye. And they having come, held his feet firmly, and worshipped him.


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Then says Jesus to them, Be ye not afraid: retire, and announce to my brethren that they should go away into Galilee, and there shall they see me.


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And they going, behold certain of the watch having come to the city, announced to the chief priests all having been done.


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And having been gathered together with the elders, and having taken counsel, they gave sufficient silver coins to the soldiers,


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And they having received the silver coins, did as they were taught; and this word was spread a report by the Jews till this day.


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And Jesus, having come near, spake to them, saying, All power has been given me in heaven and upon earth:


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Therefore, having gone, disciple all nations; immersing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:


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Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.


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As it has been written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.


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A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make his beaten paths straight.


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John was immersing in the desert, and proclaiming the immersion of repentance for the remission of sins.


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And the Judean country, and the Jerusalemites, were going out to him, and all were being immersed by him in the river Jordan, acknowledging their sins.


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And John was dressed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and eating locusts and wild honey;


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And he proclaimed, saying, The stronger than I comes after me, of whom I am not sufficient, having bent the head, to loose the strings of his shoes.


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And quickly coming up from the water, he saw the heavens cleft asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him:


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And he was there in the desert forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with wild beasts; and messengers were serving him.


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And after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God,


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And saying, That the time has been completed, and the kingdom of God has drawn near: repent ye, and believe in the good news.


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And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother, casting a large sweep-net in the sea: for they were fishermen.


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And having moved forward a little from thence, he saw James of Zebedee, and John his brother, and they in the ship adjusting their nets.


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And quickly he called them: and having left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hirelings; they went after him.


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And they go into Capernaum; and quickly in the sabbaths, having entered into the synagogue, he taught.


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And they were struck with amazement at his teaching; for he was teaching them as having power, and not as the scribes?


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Let alone; what to us and thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy of God.


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And all were amazed, so as to seek out with themselves, saying, What is this? what new teaching this? for with power also he commands the unclean spirits, and they listen to him.


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And quickly, having come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


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And Simon's mother-in-law was laid down, affected with fever: and quickly they speak to him concerning her.


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And having come, he raised her, having held her hand; and the fever quickly left her, and she served them.


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And evening having come, when the sun set, they brought to him all being afflicted, and the possessed with a demon.


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And be cured many afflicted with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and permitted not the devils to speak, for they knew him.


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And early, having risen far in the night, he went out, and departed into a deserted place, and there prayed.


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And he says to them, We should lead into the next small cities, that I might proclaim there also: for, for this have I come forth.


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And a leprous one came to him, beseeching him, and supplicating him on his knees, and saying to him, That if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me.


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And Jesus, having felt compassion, having stretched out the hand, touched him, and says to him, I will: be thou cleansed.


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And says to him, See thou say nothing to any one: but retire, shew thyself to the priest, and bring forward for thy cleansing what things Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.


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And he, having gone forth, began to proclaim many things, and to spread the word a report, so that he could no more openly enter the city, but was without in desert places: and they come to him from every quarter.


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And quickly many were gathered together, so as no more to have room, neither at the door: and he spake the word to them.


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And not being able to draw near to him for the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was and having excavated, they let down his couch upon which the paralytic was laid.


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And Jesus having seen their faith, says to the paralytic, Child, thy sins have been remitted to thee.


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And Jesus quickly having known that they discuss in themselves, says to them, Why discuss ye these things in your hearts.


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Why is it easier to say to the paralytic, Sins have been remitted to thee? or to say, Arise, lift up thy couch, and walk?


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And that ye might know that the Son of man has power to remit sins upon earth, (he says to the paralytic)


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And he was quickly raised up; and having lifted up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were affected in mind, and praised God, saying, That we never saw it thus.


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And passing by, he saw Levi, him of Alpheus, sitting by the customhouse, and he says to him, Follow me. And having risen, he followed him.


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And it was in his reclining at table in his house, and many publicans and sinful reclined together with Jesus and his disciples: for they were many, and they followed him.


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And the scribes and Pharisees having seen him eating with publicans and sinful, said to his disciples, Why does he eat and drink with publicans and sinful?


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And Jesus having heard, says to them, They being strong have no need of a physician, but those being affected: I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.


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And the disciples of John, and of the Pharisees were fasting: and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John, and of the Pharisees fast, and the disciples to thee fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the nuptial chamber, in which the bridegroom is with them, fast? as much time as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.


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And the days shall come when the bridegroom should he taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.


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And none sews a piece of uncombed fragment upon an old garment; and lest its new filling up take away from the old, and the splitting be worse.


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And none puts new wine in old wine-skins: and lest the new wine rend the wine-skins, and the wine be poured out, and the wine-skins perish; but they put new wine in new wine-skins.


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And it was he passed by through the standing corn in the sabbaths: and his disciples began to make the way, picking out the ears of corn.


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And he said to them, Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and hungered, himself, and those with him?


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How he went into the house of God to Abiathar the chief priest, and ate the loaves of setting up, which is not lawful to eat but for priests, and gave to those being with him?


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And they were observing him narrowly, if in the sabbaths he will heal him; that they might accuse him.


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And he says to them, Is it lawful in the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? to save a soul, or to kill? And they were silent.


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And having looked round upon them with anger, grieved for the hardness of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.


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And the Pharisees having come out, quickly with the Herodians were making counsel against him, that they might destroy him.


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And Jesus withdrew with, his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea,


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And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, having heard what he did, came to him.


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And he said to his disciples, that a small vessel should remain for him, on account of the crowd, that they might not press him.


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And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell before him, and cried, saying, That thou art the Son of God.


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And James, him of Zebedee, and John brother of James; and he set to them names Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:


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And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James him of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,


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And they came into the house; and again came the crowd together, so that they could not even eat bread.


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And they with him, having heard, came forth to take hold of him: for they said, That he is affected in mind.


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And the scribes, they having come down from Jerusalem, said, That he has Beelzeboul, and that by the ruler of demons he casts out demons.


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None can plunder the vessels of the strong, having entered his house, except he first bind the strong; then he will plunder his house.


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Truly I say to you, That all sins shall be remitted to the sons of men, and defamations whatever they defame:


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And whoever should defame against the Holy Spirit has no remission forever, but he is liable to the penalty of eternal condemnation.


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And the crowd sat about him, and they said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek thee.


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And having looked round upon those sitting round about him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren!


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And again he began to teach by the sea: and a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that he, having gone into the ship, sat in the sea; and all the crowd was by the sea upon land.


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And it was in sowing some truly fell by the way, and the flying things of heaven came and ate it down.


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And other fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth; and quickly it sprang forth, for it had no deepness of earth:


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And other fell in good earth, and gave fruit coming up and increasing; and one brought thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.


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And he said to them, To you has it been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those without, all are in parables:


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That seeing they might see, and not know; and hearing they might hear, and not understand; lest they turn back, and their sins be remitted to them.


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And these are they by the way, where the word is sown; and when they hear, quickly comes Satan, and takes away the word sown in their hearts.


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And these are likewise they sown upon stony places; who, when they hear, quickly with joy receive it;


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And have no root in themselves, but are temporary; then pressure having been or expulsion for the word, quickly are they scandalized.


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And the cares of this time, and the deceit of riches, and eager desires about remaining things, coming in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.


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And these are they sown on good earth; who hear the word, and receive, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.


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And he said to them, Much less the light comes that it be set under a bushel, or under a bed; that it be not set upon a candlestick.


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For not anything is hid, which should not be manifested; neither was concealed, but that it should come clear.


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And he said to them, See ye how ye hear: with what measure ye measure, shall be measured to you: and to you hearing, shall be added.


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For whoever should have, to him shall be given: and whoever has not, also what he has shall be taken away from him.


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And he sleep, and should rise night and day, and the seed should sprout, and be raised; how, he knows not.


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For the earth bears fruit spontaneously; first the grass, then the ear, then the full wheat in the ear.


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And he said, To what should we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable should we hold it forth?


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As a kernel of mustard, which, when it be sown in the earth, is smaller than all seeds upon the earth:


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And when it be sown, it comes up and is greater than all vegetables, and makes great young shoots; so that the flying things of heaven can encamp under its shadow.


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And having let the crowd go, they receive him as he was in the ship. And there were also other small vessels with him.


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And there is a great hurricane of wind, and the waves struck against the ship, so that it was already filled.


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And he was upon the back part of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow: and they aroused him, and say to him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?


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And having risen, he censured the wind, and said to the sea, Be silent, be constricted. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.


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And they feared a great fear, and said to one another, Who is this, that also the wind and sea listen to him.


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For he had been bound many times with fetters and chains, and the chains were torn asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and none could tame him.


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And always, night and day, was he in the mountains, and among the monuments, crying, and mangling himself with stones.


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And having cried with a great voice, he said, What to me and thee, Jesus, O Son of God most high I adjure thee by God, that thou torture me not.


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And quickly Jesus permitted them. And the evil spirits having come forth, entered into the swine: and the herd rushed through the precipice into the sea, (and they were about two thousand;) and they were choked in the sea.


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And those feeding the swine fled, and they announced in the city, and in the fields. And they came forth to see what is it that was done.


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And they come to Jesus, and they see him possessed with the demon, sitting down, and being clothed, and of sound mind: and they were afraid.


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And they having seen, recounted to them how it was to him possessed with the demon, and concerning the swine.


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And he having gone into the ship, he having been possessed with a demon besought him that he might be with him.


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And Jesus permitted him not; but he says to him, Retire to thy house, to thine own, and announce to them what things the Lord did to thee, and he pitied thee.


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And Jesus having passed over again in the ship on the other side, a great crowd was gathered together to him: and he was by the sea.


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And, behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue comes, Jairus by name; and having seen him, he fell at his feet,


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And he besought him much, saying, That my little daughter is at the last extremity: that, having come, thou Mightest put the hands upon her, so that she might be saved; and she shall live.


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And having suffered many things by many physicians, and having expended all of her own, and not having been benefited, but having come rather to the worse,


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And quickly the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she knew in the body that she is healed from the plague.


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And Jesus, having quickly known in himself the power having gone out of him, having turned round in the crowd, he said, Who has touched my garments?


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And his disciples said to him, Seest thou the crowd pressing thee, and sayest thou, Who has touched me?


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And the woman, afraid and trembling, having known what bad been upon her, came and fell down before him, and spake all the truth to him.


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And he said to her, Daughter, thy faith has saved thee; retire in peace, and be whole from thy plague.


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He yet speaking, they come from the ruler of the synagogue, saying, That thy daughter is dead: why yet dost thou importune the Teacher?


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And Jesus having quickly heard the word spoken, says to the ruler of the synagogue, Fear not, only believe.


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And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees an uproar, they weeping and wailing much.


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And having time in, he says to them, Why make ye an uproar, and weep? the young child is not dead, but sleeps.


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And they laughed at him. And he, having cast them all out, takes the father and mother of the young child, and those with him, and goes where the young child was lying.


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And having taken the hand of the young child, he says to her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Little girl, I say to thee, arise.


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And the little girl arose quickly, and walked; for she was of twelve years. And they were affected in mind with great amazement.


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And sabbath having come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing were struck with amazement, saying, Whence to this one these things? and what this wisdom given to him, that such powers are done by his hands?


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Is not this the carpenter, son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Jude, and Simon and are not his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in him.


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And Jesus said to them, That a prophet Is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in kinsmen, and in his house.


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And he calls the twelve, and began to send them, two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;


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And enjoined them, that they take nothing for the way, except a rod only; no traveling-sack, no bread, no brass in the purse:


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And he said to them, Wherever ye come into a house, there remain ye even till ye should come forth thence.


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And as many as receive you not, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the heap of dust under your feet for testimony to them. Truly I say to you, It shall be more supportable for the Sodomites or Gomorrhites in the day of judgment, than that city.


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And king Herod heard his name; (for it was manifest:) and said, That John the Immerser was raised from the dead, and for this the powers were energetic in him.


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For this Herod, having sent, took John, and bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife: for he married her.


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For Herod feared John, knowing him a just and holy man, and he observed him: and having heard him, did many things, and heard him cheerfully.


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And a convenient day having come, when Herod in the festivities of his birthday made a supper to his leading persons, and to the captains of thousands, and to the first of Galilee;


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And the daughter of this Herodias, having come in, and danced, and pleased Herod and those reclining together at table, the king said to the little girl, Ask me whatever thou wishest, and I will give thee.


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And she having come out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Immerser.


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And having come quickly with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I wish that thou wouldest give me by itself, upon a board, the head of John the Immerser.


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And the king having been sorely grieved on account of the oaths and those reclining at table together, wished not to refuse her.


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And he having departed, beheaded him in prison, and brought his head upon a board, and gave it to the little girl: and the little girl gave it to her mother.


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And the sent are gathered to Jesus, and announced to him all things, whatever they did, and whatever they taught.


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And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart to a desert place, and rest a little: for many were coming and returning, and neither had they leisure to eat.


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And the crowds saw them retiring, and many knew him, and they were running there on foot from all cities, and came before them, and came together to him.


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And Jesus, having come out, saw a great crowd, and felt compassion for them, for they were as sheep having not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.


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And having been already much time, his disciples, having come to him, say, This is a desert place, and already the time much:


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Loose them, that having departed to the fields and towns round about, they might buy to themselves loaves: for they have nothing they might eat.


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And having answered, he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, Having gone, should we buy loaves of two hundred drachmas, and give them to eat?


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And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? retire and see. And having known, they say, Five, and two fishes.


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And having taken the five loaves and two fishes, having looked up to heaven, he praised, and he brake the loaves, and gave to his disciples that they might set before them; and the two fishes he divided to all.


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And quickly he constrained his disciples to go to the ship, and to lead before to the other side of Bethsaida, till he loose the crowd:


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And he saw them trying to urge forward, for the wind was contrary to them: and about the fourth watch of the night he comes to them walking upon the sea, and he would pass by them.


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For all saw him, and were troubled. And quickly he spake with them, and says to them, Take courage: I am; be not afraid.


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And he went up to them to the ship; and the wind ceased, and they were greatly affected in mind above measure and wondered.


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Running round about that whole country, began to bring the afflicted upon couches, where they heard that he is there.


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And wherever he went, in towns, or cities; or fields, they set the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might even touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were saved.


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And the Pharisees are gathered together to him, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem,


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And having seen some of his disciples with common hands, that is, unwashed, eating loaves, they rebuked.


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(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they vigorously wash hands, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.


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And from the market-place, except they be immersed, they eat not. And there are many other things which they received to hold; the immersion of cups, and of measures, and of brazen vases, and of chairs.)


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Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Wherefore do not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?


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And he having answered, said to them, That Esaias prophesied well concerning you, as it has been written, This people honour me with lips, and their heart keeps far from me.


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For having left the command of God, ye hold firmly to the tradition of men, the immersion of measures and cups: and many other such like things ye do.


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For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he reviling father or mother, in death let him die:


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And ye say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, which is, a gift, whatever thou be profited by me;


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Abrogating the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.


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There is nothing from without a man, entering into him, which can defile him: but things coming out from him, these are the things polluting the man.


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And he says, So are ye also without understanding? Do ye not perceive, that anything from without entering into a man, cannot pollute him.


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For it goes not into the heart, but into the belly, and goes forth into the privy, purging all food.


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And arising from thence, he departed into the bounds of Tyre and Sidon, and having come into the house, he would have none know; and he could not be hid.


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For a woman having heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, having come, fell at his feet:


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And the woman was a Grecian, a Syrophenician by birth; and she entreated him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.


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And Jesus said to her, Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not good to take the children's bread, and cast to little dogs.


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And she answered and says to him, Yes, Lord: for also the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs.


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And having departed to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter cast upon the bed.


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And again, having gone out from the bounds of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, in the midst of the bounds of Decapolis.


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And they bring to him a deaf one, tongue-tied; and they beseech him that he would put the hand upon him.


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And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers in his ears, and having spit, he touched his tongue;


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And he charged them that they should say to none: and as much as he charged them, they proclaimed more abundantly;


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And above measure were they struck with amazement, saying, Well has he done all things: he makes the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak.


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In those days the crowd being very many, and having nothing they might eat, Jesus having called his disciples, says to them,


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I feel compassion for the crowd, for already they remain three days with me, and have nothing they might eat:


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And if I loose them fasting to their house, they will be relaxed in the way: for some of them have come from far.


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And his disciples answered him, Whence might anyone be able to satisfy these with loaves here in the lonely place?


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And he enjoined to the crowd to recline upon the earth: and having taken the seven loaves, having returned thanks, he brake, and he gave to his disciples that they might set before; and they set before the crowd.


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And they ate, and were satisfied: and they took up the remains of the fragments, seven wicker baskets.


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And the Pharisees came out, and began to search out with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.


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And having sighed deeply in spirit, he says, Why seeks this generation for a sign Verily I say to you, shall a sign be given to this generation.


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And he enjoined them, saying, See ye, look away from the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod.


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And Jesus having known, says to them, Why reason ye with yourselves, because ye have no loaves? observe ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?


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When I brake the five loaves to five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve.


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And when the seven to four thousand, the fillings of how many baskets of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.


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And he comes to Bethsaida; and they bring to him one blind, and beseech him that he would touch him.


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And having taken the hand of the blind, he led him forth without the town; and having spit into his eyes, having put hands upon him, he asked him if he saw any thing.


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Then again he put hands upon his eyes, and made him look up; and he was restored, and he saw all clearly.


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And he sent him to his house, saying, Thou shouldest not either enter into the town, neither, say to any in the town.


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And Jesus went out, and his disciples, to the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples in the way, saying to them, Whom do men say me to be?


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And he says to them, And whom do ye say me to be? And Peter, having answered, says to him, Thou art Christ.


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And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be disapproved of by the elders, and the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise up.


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And he having turned back, and having seen his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, Retire behind me, Satan: for thou hast not in mind the things of God, but the things of men.


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And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wills to come after me, let him absolutely deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.


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For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever should lose his life for my sake and the good news, the same shall save it.


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For whoever should be ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; also the Son of man shall be ashamed of him, when he should come in the glory of the Father with the holy messengers.


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And he said to them, Truly I say to you, That some of those are standing here, who should not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God having come in power.


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And after six days Jesus takes Peter, and James, and John, and brings them up into a high mountain apart alone: and he was transformed before them.


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And Peter having answered, says to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.


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And a cloud was overshadowing them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly beloved Son: hear ye him.


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And they coming down from the mount, he charged them that they recount to none what they saw, except when the Son of man should arise from the dead.


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And they held the word firmly to themselves, searching out together what it is to arise from the dead.


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And he having answered, said to them, Elias truly having first come, restores all things; and how it has been written of the Son of man, that he suffer many things; and be set at nought.


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But I say to you, that Elias also has come, and they did to him whatever they would, as it has been written of him.


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And having come to the disciples, he saw a great crowd about them, and the scribes seeking out with them.


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And one from the crowd having answered, said, Teacher, I have brought my son to thee, having a speechless spirit.


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And wherever he overtakes him, he rends him: and he foams, and gnashes his teeth, and he is dried up: and I spake to thy disciples that they might cast him out; and they could not.


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And he having answered, says to him, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me.


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And they brought him to him: and having seen him, quickly the spirit rent him; and having fallen upon the earth, foaming he rolled himself about.


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And many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou canst anything, help us, having had compassion upon us.


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And quickly the child's father having cried out with tears, said, I believe, O Lord, help thou mine unbelief.


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And Jesus, having seen that the crowd ran together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Speechless and deaf spirit, I command thee to come out of him, and that thou come no more into him.


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And having cried and rent him much, it came forth, and he was as dead; so that many said, That he is dead.


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And he having come into the house, his disciples asked him apart, Wherefore were we not able to cast him forth?


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And having come out thence they passed through Galilee; and he desired not that any one should know.


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For he taught his disciples, and said to them, That the Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, he shall raise himself the third day.


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And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What reasoned ye to yourselves in the way.


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And having sat down, he called the twelve, and says to them, If any wish to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.


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And having taken a young child, he set him in the midst of them: and having taken it up in his arms, he said to them,


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Whoever should receive ones of such young children in my name, receives me: and whoever should receive me, receives not me, but him sending me.


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And John answered him, saying, Teacher, we saw a certain one casting out demons in thy name, who follows not us: and we checked him, for he follows not us.


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And Jesus said, Check him not: for there is no one who shall do power in my name, and shall be able quickly to revile me.


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For whoever should give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because ye are of Christ, verily I say to you, he should not lose his reward.


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And whoever should scandalize one of these little ones believing in me, it is good for him rather if a millstone is put about his neck, and he be cast into the sea.


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And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is good for thee rather to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go away into hell, into inextinguishable fire:


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And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into inextinguishable fire:


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And if thine eye offend thee, cast it out: it is good for thee, one-eyed, to come into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast into a hell of fire:


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Salt good: but if the salt be saltless, with what will ye prepare it? Have salt in yourselves, and live in peace one with another.


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And having risen from thence, he comes into the bounds of Judea, through the other side of Jordan: and crowds came together again to him; and, as he was accustomed, again he taught them.


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And the Pharisees having come near, asked him, if it is lawful for a man to loose his wife; tempting him.


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And he says to them, Whoever should loose his wife, and should marry another, commits adultery against her.


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And they brought young children to him, that he might touch them: and the disciples rebuked those bringing.


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And Jesus, having seen, felt pain, and said to them, Permit children to come to me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.


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Truly I say to you, Whoever should not receive the kingdom of God as a young child, should not come into it.


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And he going in the way, one running and having fallen upon his knees, asked him, Good teacher, What shall I do that I might inherit eternal life.


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Thou knowest the commands: Thou shouldst not commit adultery; Thou shouldst not kill; Thou shouldst not steal; Thou shouldst not bear false testimony; Thou shouldst not defraud; Honour thy father and mother.


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And Jesus having looked upon him, loved him, and said to him, One thing is wanting to thee retire; whatever thou hast, sell, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, having taken up the cross.


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And Jesus having looked round, said to his disciples, With what difficulty shall they having property enter into the kingdom of God.


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And his disciples were amazed at his words. And Jesus again having answered, says to them, How difficult, children, is it for those trusting in property to enter into the kingdom of God!


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It is easier labor for a camel to come through the hole of a needle, than for a rich one to come into the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus having beheld them says, With men impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.


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And Jesus having answered, said, Truly I say to you, There is none who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for sake of me, and the good news,


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Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life.


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And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was leading before them; and they were amazed; and following, they were afraid. And again taking the twelve, he began to say to them the things about to happen to him,


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For, behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered to the chief priests, and scribes; and they shall condemn him to death: and shall deliver him to the nations:


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And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall be raised up.


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And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying, Teacher, we wish that whatever we should ask, thou wouldst do for us.


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And they said to him, Give us that we might sit, one from thy right hand, and one front thy left, in thy glory.


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And Jesus said to them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink the cup which I drink? and the immersion with which I am immersed to be immersed.


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And they said to him, We can. And Jesus said to them, Truly the cup which I drink shall ye drink; and the immersion with which I am immersed, shall ye be immersed.


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And to sit from my right hand, and from my left is not mine to give; but for whom it has been prepared.


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And Jesus having called them, says to them, Ye know that they thinking to be first of the nations rule over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.


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And it shall not be so among you: but whoever should wish to be great among you, shall be your attendant:


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For also the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many.


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And they come into Jericho: and he going out from Jericho, and his disciples, and a sufficient crowd, Bartimeus the blind, son of Timaeus, sat by the way asking alms.


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And having heard that it is Jesus the Nazarite, he began to cry, and to say, Son of David, O Jesus, compassionate me.


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And many were rebuking him, that he should be silent: and he cried much more, Son of David, compassionate me.


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And Jesus having stood, spake for him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him, Take courage, arise; he calls thee.


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And Jesus having answered, said to him, What wishest thou I should do to thee? And the blind said to him, Rabboni, that I might see again.


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And Jesus said to him, Retire; thy faith has saved thee. And quickly he looked up, and followed Jesus in the way.


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And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, to the mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples,


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And says to them, Retire into the town over against you: and quickly going into it, ye shall find a colt tied, upon which none of men has sat; having loosed, bring him.


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And if any say to you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord has need of him; and quickly will he send him here.


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And many strewed their garments in the way: and others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed in the way.


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And they going before, and they following, cried, saying, Osanna; praised he coming in the name of the Lord:


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And Jesus came into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and having looked around upon all things, the hour being already coming, he went into Bethany with the twelve.


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And having seen a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if yet he shall find any thing upon it; and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves; for it was not time of the figs.


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And Jesus having answered, said to it, May none eat more fruit of thee forever. And his disciples heard.


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And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus having entered into the temple, began to cast out those selling and buying in the temple; and the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those selling doves he overturned;


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And he taught, saying to them, Has it not been written, That my house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations? and ye made it a den of robbers.


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And the scribes and chief priests heard, and they sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, for all the crowd were struck with amazement at his teaching.


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And Peter, having recalled to mind, says to him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is dried up.


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For truly I say to you, That whoever should say to this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and should not discuss in his heart, but believe that what he says, is; it shall be to him, whatever he should say.


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For this I say to you, All things whatever, praying, ye ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.


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And when ye stand praying, let go, if ye have any thing against any one: that also your Father, he in the heavens, might let go to you your falls.


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And they come again to Jerusalem: and he walking in the temple, the chief priests, and scribes, and elders come to him,


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And say to him, By what power doest thou these things? and who gave thee this power that thou doest these things?


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And Jesus having answered, said to them, And I will ask you one word, and answer ye me, and I will tell you by what power I do these things.


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And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Wherefore did ye not believe him.


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And having answered they say to Jesus, We know not. And Jesus having answered, says to them, Neither say I to you by what power I do these things.


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And be began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence round, and digged a winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.


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And he sent a servant to the husbandmen in time, that he might receive of the husbandmen from the fruit of the vineyard.


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And again he sent to them another servant; and having stoned the same they treated in a summary manner, and sent away despised.


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And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; truly stripping some, and killing some.


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Yet therefore having one dearly beloved son, and him he sent last to them, saying, That they will be changed by my son.


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And these husbandmen said with themselves, That this is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.


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Therefore what will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and give the vineyard to others.


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And have ye not read this writing; The stone which the builders disapproved of, this was for the head of the corner:


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And they sought to seize him, and they feared the crowd: for they knew that he spake this parable against them: and having let him go they went away.


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And they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in the word.


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And they having come, say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and thou carest not for any one: for thou lookest not to the face of men, but in truth thou teachest the way of God: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or no?


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Should we give, or not give? And he knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a drachma that I might see it.


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And they brought. And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.


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And Jesus having answered, said to them, Give back Caesar's things to Caesar, and the things of God to God. And they wondered at him.


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Teacher, Moses wrote to us, That if any one's brother die, and leave his wife, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.


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Therefore in the rising up, when they should rise, to which of them shall the woman be? for the seven had her a wife.


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And Jesus having answered, said to them, For this do ye not go astray, not knowing the writings, nor the power of God?


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For when they arise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the messengers which in the heavens.


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And concerning the dead that they are raised: have ye not read in the book of Moses, at the bramble, how God spake to him, I the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.


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And one of the scribes having come, having heard them seeking out together, knowing that he answered them well, asked him, Which is the first command of all?


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And Jesus answered him, That the first of all the commands, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:


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And thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole mind, and from thy whole strength: this the first command.


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And the second like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. No other command is greater than these.


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And the scribe said to him, Well, Teacher, in truth hast thou spoken: for one God is; and there is no other but he:


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And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love the neighbor as himself, is more than all the whole burnt offerrings, and the sacrifices.


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And Jesus having seen him that he answered understandingly, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And none dared to ask him any more.


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And Jesus having answered, said, teaching in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David.


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For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit from my right hand, till I set thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.


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Therefore David himself calls him Lord; and whence is he his son? And a great crowd heard him willingly.


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And he said to them in his teaching, Look from the scribes, wishing to walk in robes, and greetings in market-places,


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They eating in widows' houses, and praying long for a pretext: these shall receive more abundant judgment.


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And Jesus having sat over against the royal treasury, saw how the crowds cast money into the treasury: and many rich cast in much.


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And having called his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, That this poor widow has cast into the royal treasury, more than all they casting into the treasury:


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For all they cast in out of the abundance to them; and she, out of her want, cast in all things which she had, her whole living.


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And he going out of the temple, one of his disciples says to him, Teacher, see of what country the stones, and of what country the buildings!


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And Jesus having answered, said to him, Seest thou these great buildings? stone upon stone shall not be left which shall not be loosed.


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And he sitting in the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him apart,


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And when ye hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not terrified: for it must be; but the end is not yet.


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For nation shall be raised against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in places, and there shall be famines, and commotions: these the beginnings of anguish.


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And see ye to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues shall ye be stripped: and shall be set before rulers and kings for my sake, for testimony to them.


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And when delivering up, they bring you, take no care beforehand what ye speak, neither bestow attention: but whatever should be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for not ye are speaking, but the Holy Spirit.


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And brother shall deliver brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and kill them.


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And ye shall be hated by all for my name's sake: and he having remained to the end, the same shall be saved.


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And when ye see the abomination of desolation, that spoken by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him reading understand,) then let them in Judea flee to the mountains:


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And he upon the house, let him not come down into the house, nor let him come in, to take any thing away out of his house:


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For those days shall be pressure, such as there has not been from beginning of creation which God created till now, and should not be.


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And except the Lord shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but for the chosen whom he chose, he shortened the days.


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For false Christ's and false prophets shall be raised up, and shall give signs and wonders, to deceive, if possible, also the chosen.


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But in those days, after that pressure, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,


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And then shall he send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from extremity of earth to extremity of heaven.


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And from the fig tree learn ye a parable; When its young shoot be tender, and cause the leaves to grow, ye know that summer is near.


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And concerning that day and hour none knows, nor the messengers in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.


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As a man traveling, having left his house, and having given power to his servants, and to each his work, and he commanded the guard of the door that he should watch.


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Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at eve, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or morning.


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And after two days was the pascha, and the unleavened loaves: and the chief priests and scribes sought how, having taken him by fraud, they might kill.


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And he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leprous, he reclining at table, a woman came having an alabaster box of perfumed oil of persuasive, costly, spikenard; and having broken the alabaster box, she poured upon his head.


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And there were some displeased in themselves, and saying, For what has been the loss of this perfumed oil?


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For this could have been sold for above three hundred drachmas, and have been given to the poor. And they raged against her.


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For always have ye the poor with you, and when ye wish ye can do them good: and me ye have not always.


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Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news be proclaimed in the whole world, also what she has done shall be spoken for a memorial of her.


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And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.


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And having heard, they rejoiced, and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might opportunely deliver him up.


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And in the first day of the unleavened, when they sacrificed the pascha, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou, we, having gone, should prepare that thou eat the pascha.


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And he sends two of his disciples, and says to them, Retire to the city, and a man shall meet you bearing an earthen vessel of water; follow him.


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And wherever he should enter in, say to the lord of the house, That the Teacher says, Where is the room where I might eat the pascha with my disciples?


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And his disciples went out, and came to the city, and found as he said to them: and they prepared the pascha.


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And they reclining and eating, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, That one of you shall deliver me up, he eating with me.


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Truly the Son of man retires, as has been written of him: and woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! it were good for him if that man had not been born.


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And they eating, Jesus having taken bread, having praised, brake, and gave them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.


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Truly I say to you, that I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, till that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus says to them, That all ye shall be offended with me in this night: for it has been written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.


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And Jesus says to him, Truly I say to thee, That to day, in this night, surely before the cock has uttered a sound twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.


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And he said more excessively, If I should die with thee, I shall not deny thee. And so likewise they all said.


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And they came to a place, the name of which Gethsemane: and he says to his disciples, Sit here, while I shall pray.


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And having gone forward a little, he fell upon the earth and prayed that, if it be possible, the hour might pass away from him.


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And he said, Abba, Father, all things possible to thee; turn away this cup from me: but not what I will, but what thou.


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And he comes, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? could eat thou not watch one Hour?


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Watch ye and pray, that ye should not come into temptation. Truly the spirit well inclined, and the flesh weak.


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And having turned back, he found them again sleeping, (for their eyes were loaded,) and they knew not what they might answer him.


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And he comes the third time, and says to them, Sleep the remaining time, and take rest: it is sufficient, the hour has come; behold, the Son of man is delivered into the hands of the sinful.


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And quickly, he yet speaking, Judas approaches, being one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and sticks from the chief priests and scribes and the more ancient.


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And he delivering him up gave them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, this is he; seize him, and lead away safely.


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And a certain one of them standing by, having drawn a sword, struck the chief priest's servant, and took away his ear.


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And Jesus having answered, said to them, As against a robber come ye out, with swords and sticks to take me.


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Daily was I with you in the temple teaching, and ye seized me not: but that the writings might be completed.


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And one certain young man followed him, having cast a garment of fine linen over his nakedness; and the young men seized him:


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And they led Jesus away to the pontificate: and all the chief priests and elders and scribes came with him.


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And Peter followed him from far, even to within the court-yard of the chief priest: and he was sitting with the attendants, and warming himself near the light.


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And the chief priests and the whole council sought testimony against Jesus, to put him to death; and found not:


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That we heard him saying, That I will abolish this temple made with hands, and in three days will I build another, made without hands.


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And the chief priest having risen up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what these testify against thee.


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And he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the chief priest asks him, and says to him, Art thou Christ, Son of the Praised.


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And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting from the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.


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Ye have heard the blasphemy; How does it appear to you? And they all condemned him to be liable to the penalty of death.


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And certain began to spit upon him, and to cover his face, and to cuff him, and to say to him, Prophesy: and the attendants struck him blows with rods.


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And seeing Peter warming himself, having looked upon him, she says, And thou wast with Jesus the Nazarene.


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And he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand what thou sayest. And he went forth without into the vestibule; and the cock uttered a sound.


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And the young girl seeing him again, began to say to, them standing by, That this is of them: and again he denied.


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And after a little, again they standing by said to Peter, Truly thou art of them: for thou art a Galilean, and thy speech is like.


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And of the second time the cock uttered a sound. And Peter remembered the word which Jesus spake to him, That before the cock utter a sound twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And throwing blame, he wept.


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And quickly the chief priests having made counsel with the more ancient and scribes and the whole council, having bound Jesus, led away, and delivered to Pilate.


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And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And having answered, he said to him, Thou sayest.


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And Pilate having answered, again said to them, What then will ye I should do to him whom ye call King of the Jews?


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And Pilate said to them, But what evil has he done? And they cried out more excessively, Crucify him.


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And Pilate, willing to satisfy the crowd, loosed to them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, having scourged, that he might be crucified.


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And the soldiers led him away within the hall, which is the Pretorium; and they call together the whole band.


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And they struck his head with a reed, and they spit upon him, and having placed the knees, they worshipped him.


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And when they mocked him, they put off the purple from him, and clothed him with his own garments, and led him out that they might crucify him.


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And they constrain a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, passing by, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he might take up his cross.


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And they going by blasphemed him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ah, thou loosing the temple, and building in three days,


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And likewise also the chief priests, mocking to one another with the scribes, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save.


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Let Christ, King of Israel, come down from the cross, that we might see and believe. And they crucified with him reproached him.


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And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, for what hast thou forsaken me?


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And one running and having filled a sponge with vinegar, and put round a reed, gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see if Elias will come to take him down.


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And the centurion, standing over against him, having seen that having so cried out he expired, said, Truly this man was the Son- of God.


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And women also were beholding from far: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary of James the small and the mother of Joses, and Salome;


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(And they, when he was in Galilee, followed him and served him;) and many other women, having come up with him to Jerusalem.


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Joseph came from Arimathea, a distinguished counsellor, who also himself was expecting the kingdom of God, having ventured, he went in to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.


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And Pilate wondered if he were already dead: and having called the centurion, he asked him if he had been dead long ago.


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And having bought fine linen, and taken him down, he rolled in fine linen, and placed him in a tomb, which was quarried out of a rock, and he rolled a stone at the door of the tomb.


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And the sabbath having intervened, Mary Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they might anoint him.


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And having come to the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right, being encompassed with a white robe; and they were terrified.


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And he says to them, Be not terrified: Ye seek Jesus the Nazarene, being crucified: he was raised; he is not here: see the place where they laid him.


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But retire ye; say to his disciples and to Peter that he goes before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said to you.


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And having come forth quickly, they fled from the tomb; and terror and amazement held them: and they said nothing to any; for they were afraid.


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And having risen early the first of the sabbath, he was manifested first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast seven demons.


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And after these things, to two of them, walking about, was he manifested in another form, they going into the field.


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Afterwards to those reclining at table was he manifested, and he reproached their unbelief and hard heart, because they believed not them having seen him raised.


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And he having believed and having been immersed shall be saved; but he not having believed shall be condemned.


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And these signs shall follow those having believed; In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;


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They shall take up serpents; and should they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall put hands upon the sick, and they shall be well.


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Truly therefore the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into the heavens, and sat on the right hand of God.


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And they, having gone forth, proclaimed every where, the Lord performing together, and confirming the word by signs following. Amen.


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It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,


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There was in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the daily order of Abia: and his wife the daughter of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.


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According to the custom of the priesthood, he drew lots to burn incense, having entered into the temple of the Lord.


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And the messenger said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy supplication has been heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.


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For he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and fermented liquor he should not drink; and with the Holy Spirit shall he be filled, even from his mother's womb.


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And he shall come before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn back the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the intelligence of the just; to prepare a people having been put in order for the Lord.


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And Zacharias said to the messenger, By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in her days.


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The messenger having answered, said to him, I am Gabriel, standing before God; and was sent to speak to thee, and announce these good news to thee.


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And, behold, thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, till the day in which these things shall be, because thou didst not believe my words, which shall be completed in their time.


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And having come out, he could not speak to them: and they knew that he had seen a vision in the temple: and he was nodding to them, and remained dumb.


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And in the sixth month the messenger Gabriel was sent by God into a city of Galilee, to which the name Nazareth,


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To a virgin betrothed to a man to whom the name of Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name Mary.


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And the messenger, having come in to her said, Hail, thou made acceptable; the Lord with thee: praised thou among women.


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And having seen him, she was troubled at his words, and turned in her thoughts of what country this greeting might be.


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And, behold, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bear a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS.


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He shall be great, and he shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father:


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And the messenger having answered, said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing born of thee shall be called the Son of God.


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And, behold, Elizabeth thy kinsman, she also having conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month to her, called barren.


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And Mary said Behold the servant of the Lord; may it be to me according to thy word. And the messenger departed from her.


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And Mary having risen in those days, went into the mountainous country with haste, into a city of Judah;


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And it was when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit:


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And she called out with a great voice, and said, Praised thou among women, and praised the fruit of thy womb.


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For he looked upon the humiliation of his servant; for, behold, from now shall all generations deem me happy.


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And they dwelling near and her kinsmen heard, for the Lord magnified his mercy with her; and they rejoiced with her.


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And it was in the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him by the name of his father Zacharias.


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And having asked for a small writing tablet, he wrote, saying, John is his name. And they all wondered.


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And fear was upon all dwelling round about them: and in all the mount of Judea all these words were discoursed about.


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And all having heard, set in their heart, saying, What then shall this child be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.


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And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;


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Through the bowels of mercy of our God; by which the rising of the sun of sublimity has reviewed us,


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To shine forth to those in darkness and sitting in the shadow of death, to direct our feet in the way of peace.


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And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing forth to Israel.


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And it was in those days an order came out from Caesar Angustus, for the whole habitable globe to be enrolled.


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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (for he was of the house and family of David:)


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And she brought forth her firstborn son, and swathed him, and put him in a manger; for there was no place for them in the inn.


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And shepherds were in the country, sleeping in the fields, and watching over their flock the watches of the night.


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And, behold, a messenger of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them: and they fear a great fear.


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And the messenger said to them, Fear not: for, behold, I announce you good news, great joy, which shall be to all people.


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And suddenly was there a multitude with the messenger of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,


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And it was when the messenger departed from them into heaven, and the men, the shepherds, said to one another, Let us pass through now to Bethlehem, and see this word done, which the Lord made known to us.


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And the shepherds returned, honouring and praising God for all which they heard and saw, as was spoken to them.


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And when eight days were completed for circumcising the child and his name was called JESUS, called by the messenger before he was conceived in the womb.


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And when the days of her cleansing were completed, according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present to the Lord;


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(As has been written in the law of the Lord, That every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)


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And to give a sacrifice according to that said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle-doves, or two of the young of pigeons.


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And, behold, a man was in Jerusalem, the name to him Simeon; and this man just and cautious, waiting the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was upon him.


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And it was intimated to him by the Holy Spirit, not to see death, before he should see the Christ of the Lord.


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And he came in the Spirit to the temple: and in the parents bringing in the child Jesus, for them to do according to the custom of the law for him,


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And Simeon praised them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, he is laid for the fall and rising up of many in Israel; and for a sign spoken against;


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And also a spear shall pass through the soul of thyself,) so that "the reasonings from many hearts might be revealed.


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And Anna was a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;


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And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day.


