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 And he commanded the crowds to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fishes and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples and the disciples to the crowds.


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 And they all ate and were filled, and they collected what was left over of the broken pieces- twelve baskets full!


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 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side of the sea, while he dismissed the crowds.


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 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.


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 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were disturbed, saying: It is a ghost! And they cried out for fear.


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 And Peter answered, and said: Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you by walking on the water.


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 But when he saw the wind was strong, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying: Lord, save me!


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 And immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and took hold of him and said to him: O you of little faith, why did you doubt?


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 And when the men of that place recognised him, they sent word to all in that region and brought to him all who were sick,


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 and they pleaded with him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.


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 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.


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 And he answered and said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?


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 For God said: Honour your father and your mother, and he that speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.


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 But you say: Whoever shall say to his father or his mother: That with which you might have been profited by me is given to God-


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 It is not what enters into the mouth which defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.


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 Then came the disciples, and said to him: Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?


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 Let them alone. They are blind guides. And if the blind are guided by the blind, both shall fall into a pit.


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 But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart, and it is they that defile the man.


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 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness and slander.


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 These are the things which defile the man - but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man. Jesus Goes to Other CountriesHe Heals a Gentile Girl 


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 And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying: Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.


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 But he did not answer her. And his disciples came and begged him, saying: Send her away, for she cries out after us.


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 Then Jesus answered and said to her: O woman, great is your faith. Be it done to you even as you wish. And her daughter was healed from that moment. 


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 And Jesus departed from there and came near to the Sea of Galilee; and he went up the mountain and sat there.


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 And there came to him great crowds, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed and many others; and they put them down at his feet, and he healed them;


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 so much so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, the lame walking and the blind seeing.And they glorified the God of Israel.


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 Then Jesus called his disciples to him, and said: I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.


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 And the disciples said to him: Where can we get so many loaves in this deserted place to fill so great a crowd?


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 He took the seven loaves and the fish; and he gave thanks and broke the bread and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.


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 And they all ate and were filled, and they collected what was left over of the broken pieces- seven baskets full!


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 Jesus Describes Pharisees And Sadducees as Evil And the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test him, and asked him to show them a sign from heaven.


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 But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say: It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.


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 And in the morning: It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening. You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.


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 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there shall be no sign given to it except the sign of Jonah. And he left them and departed. 


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 And Jesus, aware of it, said: O you of little faith! Why do you discuss among yourselves that you have no bread?


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 Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered


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 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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 Then they understood that he told them not to be careful concerning the yeast in bread but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Jesus Leaves Israel Again and Tests His Disciples' Understanding 


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 Now when Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying: Who do men say that the Son of Man is?


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 And Jesus answered and said to him: Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you but my Father who is in heaven.


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 And I also say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the grave shall not prevail against it.


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 I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.


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 From that time Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised


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 And Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying: Be it far from you, Lord. This shall never happen to you!


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 But he turned, and said to Peter: Get behind me, Satan. You are a hindrance to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.


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 Then said Jesus to his disciples: If anyone wants to be my follower, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.


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 For whoever would save his life shall lose it, and whoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.


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 For what shall a man be profited if he shall gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?


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 For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then shall he repay every man according to his deeds.


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 Truly I say to you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.


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 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.


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 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun and his garments became white as the light.


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 And Peter said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be here. If it pleases you, I will make here three tabernacles- one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.


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 While he was yet speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying: This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear him!


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 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying: Tell the vision to no one, until the Son of Man be risen from the dead.


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 But I say unto you, that Elijah came already and they knew him not, but did to him whatever they would. Likewise shall the Son of Man suffer by their hands.


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 Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire and often into the water.


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 And Jesus answered and said: O faithless and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long must I tolerate you? Bring him here to me.


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 And he said to them: Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you: If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it will move. Nothing shall be impossible for you.


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 And while they stayed in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The Son of Man shall be delivered up into the hands of men,


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 and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised up. And they were greatly distressed. 


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 And when they arrived in Capernaum, they that collected the tribute money came to Peter, and said: Does not your teacher pay the tribute money?


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 He said: Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first of all, saying: Simon. What do you think? The kings of the earth, from whom do they receive toll or tribute? From their own children, or from strangers?


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 However, not to give offence to them, go to the sea, cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a coin. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.


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 and said: Truly I say to you, except you turn and become as little children, you shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.


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 Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.


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 But whoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a great millstone should be hung about his neck and that he should be drowned in the depths of the sea.


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 Woe to the world because of temptations to stumble! For it is necessary that the temptations occur, but woe to that man through whom the temptation comes!


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 And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or lame, rather than having two hands or two feet to be thrown into the perpetual fire.


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 And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna.


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 See you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you, that in heaven their angels do always see the presence of my Father who is in heaven.


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 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?


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 And if he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.


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 And if your brother sins against you, go show him his fault, between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.


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 But if he does not hear you, take with you one or two others, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.


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 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church, and if he refuses to hear the church also, let him be to you as the Gentile and the tax collectors.


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 Truly I say to you: Whatever things you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever things you shall release on earth shall be released in heaven.


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 Again I say to you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.


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 Then Peter came and said to him: Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Until seven times?


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 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a certain king who would make a reckoning with his servants.


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 And since he could not pay, his master ordered that he be sold with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.


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 The servant therefore fell on his knees, saying: Lord, have patience with me and I will pay you all that I owe.


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 But that servant went out and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred denarii, and he laid hold on him and took him by the throat, saying: Pay what you owe.


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 When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place.


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 Then his lord summoned him and said to him: You wicked servant; because you pleaded with me I forgave you all that debt.


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 So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.


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 And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the region of Judea on the other side of the Jordan.


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 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him, by asking: Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?


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 And he answered and said: Have you not read, that He who made them from the beginning made them male and female,


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 and said: For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?


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 So they are no more two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, do not let man separate.


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 He said to them: Moses for your hardness of heart allowed you to send away your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.


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 And I say to you, whoever shall send his wife away, except for porneia and shall marry another, commits adultery; and he that marries a divorced woman, commits adultery.


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 For there are eunuchs that were born so from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs that were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. 


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 Then little children were brought to him, so that he should lay his hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked them.


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 But Jesus said: Let the little children come to me and do not prevent them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.


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 And someone came to him and said: Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?


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 And he said to him: Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only One who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.


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 He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: You shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness,


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 Jesus said to him: If you would be perfect, go sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven, and come follow me.


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 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he was one that had great possessions.


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 And Jesus said to his disciples: Truly I say to you: It is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.


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 And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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 And Jesus looking upon them said to them: With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.


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 Then asked Peter, saying: We have left all and followed you. What then shall we receive as a reward?


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 And Jesus said to them: Truly I say to you: You who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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 And everyone that has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.


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 Jesus' Parable of Labourers in the Vineyard For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard.


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 And to them he said: You go also into the vineyard and whatever is right I will give you. And they went their way.


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 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he said to them: Why do you stand here idle all the day?


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 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.


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 And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, but likewise each received a denarius.


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 These last have spent only one hour but you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.


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 And he answered and said to one of them: Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?


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 Take that which is yours and go your way. It is my wish to give to this last even as I gave to you.


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 Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own money? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?


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 And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them:


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 Listen, 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 shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify; and the third day he shall be raised up.


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 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling before him and asking a certain thing of him.


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 And he said to her: What do you desire? She said to him: Command that in your kingdom these my two sons may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand.


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 But Jesus answered and said: You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They said to him: We are able.


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 He said to them: You shall drink my cup indeed - but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand, is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.


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 But Jesus called them to himself, and said: You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones exercise authority over them.


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 Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many. 


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 And two blind men who were sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying: Lord, have mercy on us, you Son of David.


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 And the crowd rebuked them, that they should hold their peace; but they cried out the more, saying, Lord, have mercy on us, you Son of David!


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 And Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately they received their sight and followed him.


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 Jesus Enters Jerusalem And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,


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 saying to them: Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.


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 And if anyone says something to you, you shall say: The Lord has need of them. And immediately he will send them.


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 Tell the daughter of Zion: Look, your King comes to you, meek and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass.


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 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.


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 And the crowds that went before him and that followed shouted: Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!


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 And Jesus entered into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple. and overthrew the tables of the money-changers and the seats of them that sold the doves.


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 And he said to them: It is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer; but you make it a den of robbers.


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 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children that were crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David!, they were moved with indignation, and said to him:


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 Do you hear what these are saying? And Jesus said to them: Yes. Did you never read: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have perfected praise?


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 And seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went to it and found nothing thereon but leaves only; and he said to it: Let there be no fruit from you again. And immediately the fig tree withered away.


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 And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying: How did the fig tree immediately wither away?


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 And Jesus answered and said to them: Truly I say to you, If you have faith and doubt not, you shall not only do what is done to the fig tree, but even if you shall say to this mountain: Be taken up and cast into the sea, it shall be done.


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 And when he had entered into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said: By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority?


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 And Jesus answered and said to them: I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.


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 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men? And they discussed it among themselves, saying: If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us, why then did you not believe him?


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 And they answered Jesus and said: We do not know. He replied to them: Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.Jesus' Parable of the Two Sons


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 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said: Son, today go and work in the vineyard.


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 Which of the two did the will of his father? They replied: The first. Jesus said to them: Truly I say to you, that the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.


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 For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and afterwards when you saw it, you still did not repent and believe him.


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 Jesus' Parable of the Vineyard and the Husbandmen Hear another parable. There was a man that was master of a house, who planted a vineyard and set a hedge about it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into another country.


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 But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves: This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.


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 They said to him: He will miserably destroy those miserable men and will let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who shall pay him the fruits in their seasons.


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 Jesus said to them: Did you never read in the scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.


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 Therefore say I to you: The kingdom of God shall be taken away from you and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits of it.


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 And he that falls on this stone shall be broken to pieces, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.


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 And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them.


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 And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.


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 Jesus' Parable About the Wedding Feast And Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying:


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 and sent out his servants to call them that were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.


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 Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited: Look, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!


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 And those servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good; and the wedding was filled with guests.


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 But when the king entered to see the guests, he saw there a man who was not wearing a wedding-garment.


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 And he said to him: Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.


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 Then the king said to the servants: Bind him hand and foot and throw him outside into the darkness, where there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.


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 And they sent to him their disciples, along with the Herodians, saying: Teacher. We know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth and care not for anyone, for you regard not the person of men.


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 They said to him: Caesar's. He then said to them: Therefore give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.


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 And when they heard it, they marvelled and left him and went away. The Sadducees Try to Trap Jesus - Resurrection 


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 Teacher. Moses said that if a man dies having had no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed to his brother.


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 Now there were with us seven brothers; and the first married and died having no seed, and thus left his wife to his brother.


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 But Jesus answered and said to them: You are mistaken, as you neither know the scriptures, nor the power of God.


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 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven.


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 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying:


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 I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.


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 And when the crowds heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. A Pharisee Lawyer Tries to Trap Jesus The Greatest Commandment 


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 And he said to him: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.


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 On these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets. Jesus Tests the Pharisees Who is the Son of David? 


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 Therefore all things whatever they tell you, do and observe; but do not you copy their works, for they say and do not.


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 Yes, they bind heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders; but they will not move them with their finger.


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 But they do all their works to be seen by men. For they make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long,


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 And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.


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 But woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.


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 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, while for a pretence you make long prayers. Therefore you shall receive greater condemnation.


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 Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he has become so, you make him twofold more a son of Gehenna than yourselves.


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 Woe to you, you blind guides, who say: Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.


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 And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing! But whoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is bound by his oath.


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 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cumin, yet have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy and faith.These you ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.


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 Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.


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 You blind Pharisee! Cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the plate, that the outside of it may become clean also.


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 Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful but inwardly are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.


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 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.


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 Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the tombs of the righteous,


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 and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.


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 Therefore, look, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you shall kill and crucify, and some of them you shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.


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 That upon you may fall the guilt for all the righteous blood shed on the land, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the sanctuary and the altar.


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 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings- but you were not willing!


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 For I say to you, you shall not see me from this time forward, until you shall say: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.


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 Jesus Predicts the Temple Destruction, His Return and the End of the Age And Jesus came out of the temple and was going on his way when his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.


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 But he answered and said to them: Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you. There shall not be left here one stone upon another, which shall not be thrown down.


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 And as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us, when shall these things be? And what is the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?


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 And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars. Ensure you are not alarmed, for this must happen- but the end is not yet.


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 For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and earthquakes in various places.


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 Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and you shall be hated by all the nations for my name's sake.


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 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations- and then shall the end come.


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 Therefore, when you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that reads understand),


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 For then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.


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 And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved- but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.


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 Then if anyone shall say to you, Here is the Christ, or another, Here is the Christ- do not believe them!


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 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, which shall show great signs and wonders so as to lead astray- if possible- even the elect.


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 Therefore, if they shall say to you: Look, he is in the wilderness! Do not go. Look, he is in the inner chambers! Do not believe it.


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 For as the lightning comes from the east and is seen even to the west, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.


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 But immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.


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 And then the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in heaven.Then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.


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 And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.


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 Now from the fig tree learn her parable. When her branch has become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.


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 Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Jesus Warns that the Time of the End is Only Known to God 


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 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the Angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.


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 For as in those days which were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,


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 and they did not realize until the flood came and took them all away. So shall the coming of the Son of Man be.


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 But know this! That if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.


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 Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household to give them their food in due time?


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 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he does not expect him and in an hour when he does not know,


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 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


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 Jesus' Parable of Ten Virgins Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.


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 But the wise answered: Perhaps there will not be enough for us and you. Instead, you should go to them that sell oil and buy some for yourselves.


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 And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came- and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.


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 Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know the day nor the hour. Jesus' Parable About the Servants and the Talents 


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 For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own servants and delivered to them his goods.


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 And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one- to each according to his abilities; and he went on his journey.


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 Immediately he that received the five talents went and traded with them and made another five talents.


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 And he that received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying: Lord, you gave me five talents. Look, I have gained another five talents.


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 His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, so I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord!


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 And also he that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, you gave me two talents. Look, I have gained another two talents.


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 And also he that had received the one talent came and said: Lord, I knew you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed.


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 But his lord answered and said to him: You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter seed.


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 You should have deposited my money with the bankers, so that on my return I would have collected my own money with interest.


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 For to everyone that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance, but from him that has not, even what he has shall be taken away.


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 And cast out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There, shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. Jesus' Parable About Sheep and Goats 


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 But when the Son of Man shall come in his glory and all the Angels with him, then he shall sit on the throne of his glory.


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 And before him shall be gathered all the nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.


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 Then the King shall say to those on his right hand: Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.


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 For I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me.


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 Then the righteous shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you? Or thirsty and gave you drink?


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 And the King shall answer and say to them: Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of these my brothers, even the least, you did it to me.


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 Then he shall also say to them on the left hand: You who are cursed, depart from me, to the perpetual fire which is prepared for the Devil and his messengers.


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 For I was hungry and you did not give me anything to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink.


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 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me. Naked and you did not clothe me. Sick and in prison and you did not visit me.


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 Then they shall also answer, saying: Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you?


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 Then he shall answer them, saying: Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of these least, you did not do it to me.


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 You know that after two days the Passover comes, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.


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 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered at the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.


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 a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.


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 But Jesus perceiving it, said to them: Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work upon me.


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 Truly I say to you: Wherever in the whole world this gospel is preached, what this woman has done shall also be spoken of as a memorial to her.


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 and said: What are you willing to give me if I will deliver him to you? And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.


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 Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where do you want us to prepare the Passover for you to eat?


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 And he said: Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him: The Teacher said, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.


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 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better if that man had not been born.


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 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke it, and he gave it to the disciples, saying: Take, eat. This is my body.


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 But I say to you, I shall not drink of this fruit of the vine from this time forward, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom.


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 Then Jesus said to them: You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written: I will smite the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.


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 Jesus said to him: Truly I say to you, that this night, before the cock crows, you shall deny me three times.


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 Peter said to him: Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you. Likewise said all the disciples. 


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 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples: Sit here, while I go yonder and pray.


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 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.


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 And he went forward a little and fell on his face and prayed, saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as You will.


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 And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter: What! Could you not watch with me for one hour?


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 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.


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 Again a second time he went away and prayed, saying: My Father, if this cup cannot pass, except I drink it, Your will be done.


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 Then he came to the disciples and said to them: Sleep on now and take your rest. The hour is at hand and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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 And while he yet spoke, Judas, one of the twelve, came; and with him a great crowd with swords and staves, from the chief priest and elders of the people.


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 And Jesus said to him: Friend, do what you came to do. Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and took him.


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 And one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.


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 Then said Jesus to him: Put away your sword into its place, for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword.


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 Do you think I cannot ask my Father and He shall, even now, send me more than twelve legions of Angels?


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 In that hour Jesus said to the mob: Have you come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching and you did not take me.


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 But all this is happening so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.


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 And they that had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.


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 But Peter followed him afar off, to the court of the high priest; and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.


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 Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death.


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 And the high priest stood up and said to him: Do you answer nothing? What is it that these testify against you?


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 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I bind you under oath to the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.


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 Jesus said to him: You have said it; nevertheless I say to you, from this time forward you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven.


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 Then the high priest tore his garments, saying: He has spoken blasphemy. What further need have we of witnesses? You have now heard the blasphemy.


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 Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him with the palms of their hands,


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 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a maid came to him, saying: You also were with Jesus the Galilean.


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 And when he went out to the entrance, another maid saw him and said to the bystanders: This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.


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 And after a little while they that stood by came and said to Peter: Of a truth you also are one of them, for your dialect makes you known.


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 And Peter remembered the words which Jesus had said: Before the cock crows, you shall deny me three times. And he went out and wept bitterly.


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 Jesus is Brought to Pilate Now when morning had arrived, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.


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 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,


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 saying: I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? See to it yourself.


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 And he threw the pieces of silver into the sanctuary and departed, and he went away and hanged himself.


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 And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said: It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.


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 Then was fulfilled what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel.


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 Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him: Are you the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him: You say it.


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 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.


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 Therefore, when they were gathered together, Pilate said to them: Who do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?


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 And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him, saying: Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. 


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 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.


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 But the governor answered and said to them: Which of the two do you want me to release to you? And they said: Barabbas!


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 Pilate said to them: What then shall I do to Jesus who is called Christ? They all said: Let him be crucified!


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 And he said: Why, what evil has he done? But they cried out exceedingly, saying: Let him be crucified!


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 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying: I am innocent of this man's blood. See to it yourselves.


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 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium, and the whole battalion gathered around him.


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 And they plaited a crown of thorns and put it upon his head and a reed in his right hand, and they knelt down before him and mocked him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews!


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 And when they had mocked him, they took the robe from him and dressed him in his own garments, and led him away to crucify him.


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 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they forced to carry the cross. 


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 And over his head they put the written accusation against him, which read: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.


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 and saying: You that would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.


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 He saved others; he cannot save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.


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 And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?


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 And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink.


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 And the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth quaked and the rocks were split.


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 and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.


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 Now the centurion and those that were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that happened, were terrified, saying: Truly this was the Son of God.


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 And many women were there watching from afar, those who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him.


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 Among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. Jesus is Buried 


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 And when evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.


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 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone as the door of the tomb, and departed.


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 Now the next day, which is the day after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together before Pilate,


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 saying: Sir, we remember that that deceiver said when he was still alive, After three days I will rise again.


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 Therefore, command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him away and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and so the last error will be worse than the first.


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 Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.


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 And there was a great earthquake, for an Angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.


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 And the angel said to the women: Do not be fearful, for I know you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.


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 And go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and that he goes ahead of you into Galilee. There you shall see him. Look, I have told you.


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 And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring this message to his disciples.


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 Then Jesus said to them: Fear not. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee and there shall they see me.


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 Now while they were going, some of the guard came into the city and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.


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 And when they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave much money to the soldiers,


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 So they took the money and did as they were told; and this story has been spread among the Jews to this day. 


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 And Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying: All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.


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 Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,


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 teaching them to observe all things whatever I commanded you; andI am with you always, even to the end of the age.


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 The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


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 Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.


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 For behold, Yahweh comes forth out of His place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.


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 The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.


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 All this is because of the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn't it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren't they Jerusalem?


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 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.


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 All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images will be destroyed; for as the hire of a prostitute has she obtained them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return. 


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 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.


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 For her wounds are incurable; and it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


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 Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won't come out. When you hear the wailing of Beth Ezel, you will know there is no protection there.


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 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously hoping for good, but evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.


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 Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.


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 Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.


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 I will yet hand you over to your enemy, inhabitant of Mareshah. The leader who is the glory of Israel will come to hide in the Adullam cave.


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 Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!


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


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 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.


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 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk proudly; for it is an evil time.


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 In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, "We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'.


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 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: Is the Spirit of Yahweh restrained? Are these His doings? Don't My words do good to him who walks blamelessly?


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 But lately My people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by, confidently assuming that they aren't in danger.


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 You drive the women of My people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away My blessing forever.


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 Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of your uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.


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 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink; he would be the prophet of this people. 


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 I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they will swarm with people.


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 He who opens the breach goes up before them. They break through and pass the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.


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 God's Rebuke of the People's Leaders I said, Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?


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


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 who also eat the flesh of My people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.


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 Then they will cry to Yahweh, but He will not answer them. Yes, He will hide His face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.


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 Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead My people astray; for those who proclaim, Peace!to those who feed them; and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against Him:


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 Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.


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 The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.


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 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.


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 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who hate justice, and pervert all right judgment.


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 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh and say, Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.


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 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.


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 The Mountain of Yahweh's Temple But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh's temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and nations will stream to it.


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 Many nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;


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 and He will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.


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 But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: for the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.


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 Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God for ever and ever.


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 In that day, says Yahweh, I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;


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 You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former kingdom will return, the kingdom will come to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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 Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counsellor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?


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 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go forth out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be delivered. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.


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 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, Let her be raped, and let our eye gloat over Zion.


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 But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand His counsel; for He has assembled them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.


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 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.


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 Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.


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 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to Me that is to be the ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.


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 Therefore He will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.


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 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.


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 He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight senior leaders of men. 


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 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.


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 The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don't wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.


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 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.


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 It will happen in that day, says Yahweh, That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and will destroy your chariots.


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 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.


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 Yahweh's Case against His People Listen now to what Yahweh says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.


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 Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with His people, and He will contend with Israel.


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


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 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.


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 How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?


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 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? 


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 Yahweh's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: Listen to the rod, and He who appointed it.


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 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?


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 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.


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 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.


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 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.


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 You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.


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 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You live by their commands, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; and you will bear the reproach of my people.


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 Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.


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 The Godly man has perished out of the land, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.


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 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.


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 The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.


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 Don't trust in a neighbour. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!


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


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 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.


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 Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.


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 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see His righteousness.


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 Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover herself with shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.


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 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.


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 Shepherd Your people with Your staff, the flock of Your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.


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 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.


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 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of You.


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 Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of His heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because He delights in loving kindness.


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 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.


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 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.


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 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges; Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He maintains wrath against His enemies.


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 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.


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


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 The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at His presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.


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 Who can stand before His indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of His anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by Him.


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 But with an overflowing flood He will make a full end of His adversaries, and will pursue His enemies into darkness.


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 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end; affliction won't rise up the second time.


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 For while they are entangled in thorns, and intoxicated with their drink, they will be consumed utterly like dry stubble.


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 Thus says Yahweh: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.


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 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.


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 Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.


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 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your muscles! Fortify your power mightily!


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 For Yahweh restores the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.


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 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are dressed in scarlet, the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.


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 The chariots rage in the streets, they rush back and forth in the broad highways. Their appearance is like torches, they run like lightning.


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 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to protect its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.


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 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.


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 Like water from a burst dam the people rush away from Nineveh. Stop! Stop! they cry, but no one looks back.


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 Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the booty, the glory of all goodly jewels.


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 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.


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


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 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.


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 Behold, I am against you, says Yahweh of Armies, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your envoys will no longer be heard.


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 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,


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 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,


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 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.


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 Behold, I am against you, says Yahweh of Armies, and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.


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 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, "Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?


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 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?


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 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her senior leaders were bound in chains.


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 You also will be drunken. You will go into hiding. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.


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 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.


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 Behold, your troops in your midst are like women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.


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 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.


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 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. You have multiplied like grasshoppers, bred like the locust.


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 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.


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 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.


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 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down, your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.


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 There is no healing for your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?


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 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,


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 that Hanani one of my brothers came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.


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 They said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire. Nehemiah's Prayer 


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 It happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days. I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven


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 and said, I beg you, Yahweh the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, Who keeps covenant and grace with those who love Him and keep His commandments:


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 Let Your ear now be attentive, and Your eyes open, that You may listen to the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants; while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against You. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned.


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 We have dealt very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.


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 Remember, I beg You, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses saying, "If you trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples;


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 but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause My name to dwell there'.


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 Now these are Your servants and Your people whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand.


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 Lord, I beg You, let Your ear be attentive now to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants, who delight to fear Your name; and please prosper Your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cup-bearer to the king.


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 It happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.


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 The king said to me, Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid.


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 I said to the king, Let the king live forever! Why shouldn't my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?


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 I said to the king, If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favour in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it.


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 The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), How long shall your journey be? And when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.


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 Moreover I said to the king, If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;


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 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. The king granted my requests because of the good hand of my God upon me. Nehemiah Inspects the Walls of Jerusalem 


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 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.


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 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.


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 I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.


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 I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and its gates which were consumed with fire.


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 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king's pool; but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.


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 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.


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 The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work. Nehemiah Encourages Rebuilding 


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 Then I said to them, You see the evil situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won't be disgraced.


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 I told them of the hand of my God which was for good upon me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. They said, Let us arise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good work.


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 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us and despised us and said, What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?


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 Then I answered them and said to them, The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, His servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.


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 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.


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 The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


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 Next to them, Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. Next to them, Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel made repairs. Next to them, Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.


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 Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn't put their necks to the work of their Lord.


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 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the old gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.


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 Next to them, Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, repaired the residence of the governor beyond the River.


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 Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah one of the perfumers made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall.


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 Next to them, Jedaiah the son of Harumaph made repairs across from his house. Next to him, Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.


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 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.


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 Next to him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters, made repairs.


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 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.


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 Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth Haccherem, repaired the dung gate. He built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars. 


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 Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the spring gate. He built it and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even to the stairs that go down from the city of David.


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 After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.


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 After him the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani, made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.


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 After him, their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs.


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 Next to him, Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another portion, across from the ascent to the armoury at the turning of the wall.


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 After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.


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 After him, Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.


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 After them, Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs across from their house. After them, Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.


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 After him, Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another portion, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, and to the corner.


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 Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.


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 (Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)


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 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over against the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.


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 After them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate, made repairs.


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 After him, Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another portion. After him, Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs across from his place.


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 After him, Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house of the Nethinim, and of the merchants, made repairs over against the Muster gate, and to the ascent of the corner.


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 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.


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 But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.


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 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?


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 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, What they are building? If a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.


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 Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity.


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 Don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have insulted the builders.


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 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work.


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 But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, then they were very angry.


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 They conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.


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 Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.


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 Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into their midst, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.


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 It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, Wherever you turn, they will attack us.


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 Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.


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 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Don't be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, Who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. 


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 It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, each one to his work.


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 It happened from that time onwards, that half of my servants worked in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.


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 They all built the wall while those who bore burdens loaded themselves; each one with one of his hands toiled in the work, and with the other held his weapon;


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 and the builders, each one wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.


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 I said to the nobles, to the rulers and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, one far from another.


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 So we worked at rebuilding. Half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.


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 Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let each one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labour in the day.


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 So I, my brothers, my servants, and the men of the guard who followed me, did not take off our clothes except to wash.


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 For there were some that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.


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 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.


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 There were also some who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.


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 Yet our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Indeed, we have to bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants. Some of our daughters have already been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to get out of it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards. 


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 Then I considered the matter, then contended with the nobles and the rulers and said to them, You exact usury, each one from his brother. I held a great assembly against them.


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 I said to them, We, as much as we could, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations. Would you really sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they held their peace, and found never a word to answer.


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 Also I said, The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?


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 For this reason, I my brothers and my servants lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.


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 Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.


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 Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.


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 Also I shook out my lap and said, So may God shake out every man from His house and from His work that doesn't perform this promise; even thus may he be shaken out, and emptied. All the assembly said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise. Nehemiah's Unselfishness 


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 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers did not eat the bread of the governor.


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 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants ruled over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.


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 Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land; and all my servants were gathered there to the work.


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 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred and fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.


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 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this I didn't demand the bread due to the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.


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 It was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates).


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 Then Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they intended to harm me.


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 I sent messengers to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that I can't come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it, and come down to you?


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 in which was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to this report.


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 You have also appointed prophets to speak up for you at Jerusalem saying, "There is a king in Judah!' Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.


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 Then I sent to him, saying, "There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart'.


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 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done. But now, may my hands be strengthened.


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 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, Let us meet together in God's house, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night will they come to kill you. 


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 I said, Should such a man as I flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.


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 I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.


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 He was hired so that I would be afraid, follow his advice, and sin. Thus they would have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.


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 Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear. 


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 It happened that when all our enemies heard of it, then all the nations that were about us were afraid, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done of our God.


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 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah's letters came to them.


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 For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.


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 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.


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 Now it happened, once the wall was built and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,


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 that I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, in charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.


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 I said to them, Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. While they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them; and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house. 


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 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:


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 These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his city.


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 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


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 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen.


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 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight.


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 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,


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 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Amon.


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 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not prove their fathers' houses nor their genealogies, whether they were of Israel:


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 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.


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 Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.


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 These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn't find them. Therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.


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 The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.


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 besides their male and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred and forty-five singing men and singing women.


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 Some from among the heads of fathers' households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins and five hundred and thirty priests' garments.


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 Some of the heads of fathers' households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.


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 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.


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 So the priests, the Levites and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their cities.


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 Ezra Reads God's Law to the People All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.


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 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.


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 He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until noon, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.


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 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.


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 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; for he was above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up.


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 Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshipped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.


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 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah and the Levites caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.


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 They read in the book, in the law of God, with interpretation; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.


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 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Yahweh your God. Don't mourn, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.


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 Then he said to them, Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.


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 So the Levites stilled all the people saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be grieved.


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 All the people went their way to eat and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great joy, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. 


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 On the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the law.


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 They found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;


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 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem saying, Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.


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 So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves booths, each one on the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of God's house, and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim.


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 All the assembly of those who had come again out of the captivity made booths, and lived in the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.


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 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.


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 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth on them.


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 The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.


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 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshipped Yahweh their God.


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 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God. An Account of God's Care of Israel 


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 Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah said, Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be Your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!


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 You are Yahweh, even You alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and You preserve them all. The army of heaven worships You.


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 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,


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 and found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed; and have performed Your words; for You are righteous.


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 You showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for You knew that they dealt arrogantly against them, and made a name for Yourself, as it is this day.


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 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and You cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.


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 Moreover, You led them by day in a pillar of cloud; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.


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 You came down also on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments.


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 You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses Your servant.


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 You gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which You had sworn to give them.


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 and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of Your wonders that You did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in grace, and didn't forsake them.


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 Yes, they had made them a molten calf and said, "This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt' and had committed awful blasphemies;


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 yet You in Your many mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.


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 You gave also Your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn't withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.


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 Yes, forty years You sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet didn't swell.


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 Moreover You gave them kingdoms and peoples which You allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.


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 You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which You had said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.


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 So the children went in and possessed the land, and You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.


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 They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in Your great grace. 


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 Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to You, and they committed awful blasphemies.


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 Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to You, You heard from heaven; and according to Your many mercies You gave them saviours who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.


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 But after they had rest, they did evil again before You; therefore You left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them. Yet, when they returned and cried to You, You heard from heaven; and many times You delivered them according to Your mercies,


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 and testified against them, that You might bring them again to Your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to Your commandments, but sinned against Your ordinances, which, if a man does, he shall live in them, turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.


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 Yet many years You put up with them, and testified against them by Your spirit through Your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. 


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 Nevertheless in Your many mercies You did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for You are a gracious and merciful God.


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 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and grace, don't let all the travail seem little before You, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, priests, prophets, and on our fathers, and on all Your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.


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 However You are just in all that has come on us; for You have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.


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 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers kept Your law, nor listened to Your commandments and Your testimonies that You pronounced against them.


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 For they have not served You in their kingdom, and in Your great goodness that You gave them, and in the large and rich land which You gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.


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 Indeed, we are servants this day, and as for the land that You gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, we are servants in it.


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 It yields much increase to the kings whom You have set over us because of our sins. They also have power over our bodies, and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.


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 Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.


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 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, each one who had knowledge, and understanding--


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 they joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes;


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 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;


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 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. 


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 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;


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 for the show bread, and for the continual meal offering, and for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.


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 We cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law;


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 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh;


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 also the first born of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the first born of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;


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 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.


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 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.


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 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the porters, and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.


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 The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one-tenth to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine- tenths in the other cities.


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 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem. However, in the cities of Judah each person lived in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.


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 In Jerusalem lived some of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;


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 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.


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 These are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.


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 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.


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 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God's house,


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 and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,


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 and his brothers, chiefs of fathers' households, two hundred and forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,


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 and their brothers, mighty men of valour, one hundred and twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.


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 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;


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 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outside business of God's house;


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 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the praise leader who began the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.


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 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred and seventy-two.


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 The rest of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each one in his inheritance.


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 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of God's house.


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 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.


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 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people. 


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 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, and in Dibon and its towns, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,


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 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.


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 The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,


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 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,


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 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.


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 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was the praise leader, he and his brothers.


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 Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,


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 In the days of Joiakim there were priests, heads of fathers' households: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;


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 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers' households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.


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 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' households, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.


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 The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.


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 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.


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 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe. 


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 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.


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 The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites;


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 also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth. The singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.


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 The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.


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 Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;


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 and some of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;


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 and his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.


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 By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water gate eastward.


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 The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,


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 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate; and they stood still in the gate of the guard.


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 So stood the two companies of those who gave thanks in God's house, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;


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 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;


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 and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.


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 They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.


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 On that day were men appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.


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 They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.


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 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.


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 All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, as every day required: and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.


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 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,


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 because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.


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 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. 


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 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,


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 had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the wave offerings for the priests.


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 But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the king.


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 When I returned to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God's house,


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 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms; and there brought I again the vessels of God's house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense.


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 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled everyone to his field.


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 Then I contended with the rulers and said, Why is God's house forsaken? I gathered them together, and set them in their place.


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 I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah. Next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.


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 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don't wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances. 


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 In those days I saw in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.


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 There also lived men of Tyre therein, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.


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 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?


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 Didn't your fathers do thus, and didn't our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath. 


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 It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.


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 Then I testified against them and said to them, Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time on, they didn't come on the Sabbath.


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 I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, my God, for this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your loving grace. 


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 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.


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 I contended with them and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.


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 Didn't Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him that was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.


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 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, in breaking covenant with our God in marrying foreign wives?


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 One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.


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 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.


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 Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, each one in his work;


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 and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.


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 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,


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 Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;


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 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.


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 of the children of Joseph, of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;


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 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.


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 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.


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 The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;


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 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;


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 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;


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 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.


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 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;


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 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;


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 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;


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 Of the children of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;


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 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;


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 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;


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 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;


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 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;


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 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;


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 These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.


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 So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' families, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel;


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 Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;


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 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall serve it, and shall encamp around it.


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 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.


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 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.


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 The Order of the Twelve Tribes in the Camp and on the March Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,


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 The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' families: at a distance from the Tent of Meeting shall they encamp around it.


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 Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.


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 All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.


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 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon. The prince of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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 All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their armies. They shall set out second.


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 Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they march out, every man in his place, by their standards.


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 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions, and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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 Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


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 The tribe of Benjamin, and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.


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 All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.


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 On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions, and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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 Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.


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 All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.


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 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' families. All who were numbered of the camps according to their armies were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.


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 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they marched out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' families.


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 Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.


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 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.


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 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.


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 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.


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 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.


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 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.


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 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their ministry. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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 Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:


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 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh. 


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 Count the children of Levi by their fathers' families, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.


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 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' families.


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 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.


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


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 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,


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 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.


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 Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.


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 According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.


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 The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.


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 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.


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 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.


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


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 Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.


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 The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.


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 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,


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 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.


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 Yahweh said to Moses, Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.


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 You shall take the Levites for Me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.


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 All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.


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 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be Mine. I am Yahweh.


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 For the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,


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 you shall take five shekels for each one; after the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):


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 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;


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 from the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:


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 and Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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 Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' families,


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 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.


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 When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,


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 and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.


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 On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.


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 They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.


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 They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.


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 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.


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 On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.


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 They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.


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 They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister for it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.


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 When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.


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 The duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the continual grain offering, and the anointing oil, the requirements of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, the sanctuary, and its furnishings.


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 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them each one to his service and to his burden;


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 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.


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 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,


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 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. In this will be their service.


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 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their responsibilities.


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 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the Tent of Meeting: and their duty shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 


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 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.


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 This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,


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 and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden.


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 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. The Numbers of Aaron's Sons 


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 Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' families,


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 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting.


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 These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.


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 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting,


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


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 These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh.


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 Those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' families,


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 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, to do work in the Tent of Meeting,


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 These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.


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 All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' families,


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 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,


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 According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone according to his service, and according to his burden. Thus were they numbered by him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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 Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.


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 Both male and female you shall put outside of the camp that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.


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 The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.


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 Speak to the children of Israel: "When a man or woman commits any sin that people commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;


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 then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.


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 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.


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 Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.


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 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: "If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,


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 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;


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 and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled;


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 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.


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 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.


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 The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the grain offering of memorial in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.


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 The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.


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 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband;


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 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;


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 and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away. The woman shall say, Amen, Amen.


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 "The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.


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 He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.


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 The priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the grain offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.


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 The priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.


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 When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen. If she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away; and the woman will be a curse among her people.


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 or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.


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 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: "When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,


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 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.


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 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.


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 All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.


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


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 If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.


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 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting.


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


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 He shall consecrate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.


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 This is the law of the Nazirite: when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the Tent of Meeting,


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 and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,


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


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 The priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering.


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 He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain offering, and its drink offering.


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 The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.


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 The priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the head of his separation;


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 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. This is holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.


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 This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his offering to Yahweh for his separation, besides that which he is able to put his hand on. According to his vow which he vows, so he must do after the law of his separation'.


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 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, "This is how you shall bless the children of Israel'. You shall tell them,


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 It happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and made it holy, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them;


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 that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' families, offered. These were the princes of the tribes. These are they who were over those who were numbered;


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 and they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen - a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox - and they presented them before the tabernacle.


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 Accept these from them that they may be used in doing the service of the Tent of Meeting; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.


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


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 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them: they carried it on their shoulders.


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 The princes gave offerings for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes gave their offerings before the altar.


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 Yahweh said to Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar. 


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 and his offering was: one silver plate, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.


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 He offered for his offering: one silver plate, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.


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 gave his offering: one silver plate, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.


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 gave his offering: one silver plate, the weight of which was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.


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 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.


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 This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons -


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 each silver plate weighing one hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;


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 the twelve golden spoons, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons weighed one hundred and twenty shekels.


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 All the cattle for the burnt offering: twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their grain offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve;


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 and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings: twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the year old male lambs sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.


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 When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard His voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim: and He spoke to him.


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 Speak to Aaron, and tell him, "When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand'.


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 Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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 This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.


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 You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.


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


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 You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.


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 You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,


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 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.


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 The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.


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 You shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh.


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 Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.


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 After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.


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 For they are wholly given to Me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to Me.


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 For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are Mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for Myself.


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 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.


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 Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel did so to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.


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 The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.


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 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons, as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.


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 This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to serve in the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;


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 but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties.


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


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 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed time. According to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it.


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 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.


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 There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.


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 Those men said to him, We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed time among the children of Israel?


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 Say to the children of Israel, "If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to Yahweh.


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 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it: they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.


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


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 But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.


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 If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land'. Israel Led by Cloud and Fire 


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 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony, and at evening it was over the tabernacle as if it were the appearance of fire, until morning.


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 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel took their journey; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped.


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 At the commandment of Yahweh the children of Israel travelled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.


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 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Yahweh's command, and didn't travel.


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 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Yahweh they travelled.


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 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they travelled: by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they travelled.


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 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn't travel; but when it was taken up, they travelled.


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 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they took up their journey. They kept Yahweh's command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.


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 Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.


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 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.


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 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.


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 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.


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 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.


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 The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a principle forever throughout your generations.


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 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.


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 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God. 


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 It happened in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.


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 The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.


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 First, the standard of the camp of the children of Judah went forward according to their armies. Nahshon the son of Amminadab was over his army.


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 The tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.


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 The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.


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 The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.


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 The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.


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 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.


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 Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, "I will give it to you'. Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.


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 He said, Don't leave us, please, because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be to us instead of eyes.


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 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you.


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 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a camping place for them.


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 It happened, when the ark went forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!


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 The people started complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, His anger was kindled; and Yahweh's fire burnt among them, and consumed some of those in the outskirts of the camp.


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 The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?


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 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;


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 The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.


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 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.


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 Moses said to Yahweh, Why have You dealt with Your servant so badly? Why haven't I found grace in Your sight- for You lay the burden of all this people on me?


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 Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that You should tell me, "Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant', to the land which You swore to their fathers?


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 From where can I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, "Give us meat, that we may eat'.


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 If You treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have indeed found grace in Your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness.


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 Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.


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 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone. 


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 Say to the people, "Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.


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 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh Who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?'


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 Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, "I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month'.


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 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?


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 Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? Now you will see whether My word will happen to you or not.


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 Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.


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 Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.


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 But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.


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 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, My lord Moses, forbid them!


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 Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put His Spirit on them!


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 A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.


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 The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers, and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp.


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 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.


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 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.


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 A Challenge to Moses' Authority Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.


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 They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't He spoken also with us? And Yahweh heard it.


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 Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, You three come out to the Tent of Meeting! The three of them came out.


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 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.


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 He said, Hear now My words. If there is a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make Myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.


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 that with him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?


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 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.


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 Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please don't count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.


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 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.


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 Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.


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 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.


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 Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.


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 Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.


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 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun "Joshua'.


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 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country;


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 and see the land, what it is, and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;


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 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in fenced cities;


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 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.


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 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.


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 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)


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 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.


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 That place was called the valley of Eshcol because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.


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 They went and came to Moses and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.


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 They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us and surely it flows with milk and honey and this is its fruit.


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 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.


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 Amalek dwells in the land of the South; and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.


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 Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.


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 But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.


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 They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.


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 There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.


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 All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!


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 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?


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 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.


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 Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes:


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 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed through to spy it out is an extremely good land.


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 Since Yahweh delights in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it to us - a land which flows with milk and honey.


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 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defence is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don't fear them.


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 But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. The glory of Yahweh appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.


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 Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise Me? and how long will they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?


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 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they. 


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 Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for You brought up this people in Your might from among them;


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 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Yahweh, are in the middle of this people; for You, Yahweh, are seen face to face, and Your cloud stands over them and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.


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 Now if You killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of You will speak, saying,


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 "Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness'.


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 "Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means justify the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and on the fourth generation'.


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 Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your grace, and according as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.


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 because all those men who have seen My glory and My signs which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted Me these ten times, and have not listened to My voice;


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 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of those who despised Me see it.


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 But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed Me faithfully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.


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 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley. Tomorrow, turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. 


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 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against Me.


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 Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me,


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 surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.


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 But your little ones, that you said should be for a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.


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 Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.


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 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years; and you will know the altering of My purpose'.


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 I Yahweh have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against Me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.


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 The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against Him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,


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 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.


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 They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for we have sinned.


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 Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since disobedience shall not prosper?


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 There the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword, because you are turned back from following Yahweh; therefore Yahweh will not be with you.


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 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain; nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses didn't depart out of the camp.


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 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.


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 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, "When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,


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 and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock;


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 then he who offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a grain offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil;


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 and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.


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 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a grain offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;


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 and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.


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 When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh,


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 then shall he offer with the bull a grain offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;


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 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.


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 Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.


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 According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to each one according to their number.


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 All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.


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 If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do.


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 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.


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 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you'. 


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 then it shall be that when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a wave offering to Yahweh.


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 Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a wave offering: as the wave offering of the threshing floor, so you shall heave it.


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 even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;


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 then it shall be, if it be done unknowingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, with the grain offering of it, and the drink offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.


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 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error.


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 And all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unknowingly.


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 If one person sins unknowingly, then he shall offer a female goat of a year old for a sin offering.


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 The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs when he sins unknowingly, to make atonement for him before Yahweh; and he shall be forgiven.


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 You shall have one law for him who does anything unknowingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them'. 


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 'But the soul who does anything in presumption, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


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 Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken His commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him'.


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 While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.


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 Yahweh said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.


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 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahweh commanded Moses. 


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 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue:


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 and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;


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 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh your God.


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 The Rebellion of Korah, Dathan and Abiram Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men;


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 and they rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, men called to lead the assembly, men of renown.


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 They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, each one of them, and Yahweh is among them. Why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?


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 and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the morning Yahweh will show who are His, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to Him. Even him whom He shall choose He will cause to come near to Him.


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 and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow; and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!


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 Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;


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 and that He has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?


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 Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Yahweh; and Aaron, who is he that you murmur against him?


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 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?


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 Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won't come up.


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 Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, Don't respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.


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 Moses said to Korah, You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow;


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 and let each man take his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also and Aaron, each his censer.


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 They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.


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 Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation.


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 They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will You be angry with all the congregation?


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 He spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I beg you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!


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 So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.


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 Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.


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 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me.


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 But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.


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 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them;


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 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.


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 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol; and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.


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 Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire yonder, for they are holy,


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 even the censers of these sinners against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar; for they offered them before Yahweh, therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.


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 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burnt had offered, and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,


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 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company - as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.


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 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed Yahweh's people!


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 It happened, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the Tent of Meeting; and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.


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 Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment! They fell on their faces.


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 Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.


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 Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague has begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.


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 Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.


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 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each father's house, of all their princes according to their fathers' families, twelve rods. Write every man's name on his rod.


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 You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' families.


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 It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud; and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.


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 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' families, even twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.


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 It happened on the next day that Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.


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 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.


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 Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.


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 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!


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 Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.


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 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.


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 They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.


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 They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent, and a stranger shall not come near to you.


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 You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.


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 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. To you they are given as a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.


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 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift, and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.


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 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, I, behold, I have given you the responsibility for My wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. To you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.


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 This shall be yours of the most holy things from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every grain offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to Me, shall be most holy for you and for your sons.


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 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.


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 This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.


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 All the best of the oil and all the best of the vintage and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them.


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 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land which they bring to Yahweh shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.


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 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours; nevertheless you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.


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 You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, after the shekel of the sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).


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 But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.


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 All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel give to Yahweh, have I given you and your sons and your daughters with you as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you. 


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 Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.


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 To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.


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 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.


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 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.


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 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, "Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance'.


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 Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and tell them, "When you take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a wave offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.


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 Your wave offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.


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 Thus you also shall offer a wave offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and of it you shall give Yahweh's wave offering to Aaron the priest.


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 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it'.


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 Therefore you shall tell them, "When you heave its best from it, then it shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing floor, and as the increase of the winepress.


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 You shall eat it in every place, you and your households; for it is your reward in return for your service in the Tent of Meeting.


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 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it the best of it, and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die'.


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 This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and which was never yoked.


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 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face.


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 Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times.


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 One shall burn the heifer in his sight: her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn;


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 and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.


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 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.


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 He who burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.


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 A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity. It is a sin offering.


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 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. It shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.


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 The same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he doesn't purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.


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 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purify himself, defiles the tent of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.


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 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.


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 Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.


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 For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:


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 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.


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 The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.


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 But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him: he is unclean.


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 It shall be a perpetual statute to them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.


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 Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that touches it shall be unclean until evening.


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 The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.


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 There was no water for the congregation. They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.


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 The people strove with Moses and spoke, saying, We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!


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 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness that we should die there, we and our animals?


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 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.


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 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.


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 Take the rod and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.


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 Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock and he said to them, Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring water out of this rock for you?


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 Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.


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 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because you didn't believe in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.


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 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and He was sanctified in them. 


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 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: Thus says your brother Israel: "You know all the travail that has happened to us:


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 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:


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 and when we cried to Yahweh, He heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt; and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost extremity of your border.


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 Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells. We will go along the king's highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.


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 The children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price. Let me only, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.


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 He said, You shall not pass through. Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.


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 They travelled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.


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 Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.


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 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be taken, and shall die there.


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 Moses did as Yahweh commanded; and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.


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 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.


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 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.


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 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.


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 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.


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 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.


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 They travelled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom; and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.


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 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.


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 Yahweh sent fiery snakes among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.


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


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 Yahweh said to Moses, Make a fiery snake, and set it on an ensign pole; and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks to it, shall live.


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 Moses made a snake of brass, and set it on the ensign pole; and it happened, that if a snake had bitten any man, when he looked toward the snake of brass, he lived. 


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 They travelled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.


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 From there they travelled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites (for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites).


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 From there they travelled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.


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 the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the sceptre, and with their poles. From the wilderness they travelled to Mattanah;


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 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert


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 Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border.


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 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.


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 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.


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 Israel took all these cities; and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns.


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 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.


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 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;


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 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.


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


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 We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.


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


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 Yahweh said to Moses, Don't fear him; for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.


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


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 Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.


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 Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.


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 He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.


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


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 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards for the divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.


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 He said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me. The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.


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 "Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out'.


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


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 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you.


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 They came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, "Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:


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 for I will promote you to very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me'.


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 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.


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 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.


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 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.


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 God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.


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 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.


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 Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.


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 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall; and he struck her again.


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 The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.


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 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.


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 Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?


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


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 The donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you? He said, No.


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 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.


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 The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:


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 and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive.


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 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.


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 The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.


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 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.


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 Balak said to Balaam, Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honour?


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


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 It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.


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 Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever He shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.


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


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 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.


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 He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me, come, defy Israel.


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 For from the top of the rocks I see him, from the hills I see him; behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.


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


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 Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.


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 Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all; and curse me them from there.


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 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.


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 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, What has Yahweh spoken?


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 God is not a man, that He should lie, nor the son of man, that He should change His mind. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?


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


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 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob; neither is there any divination possible against Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!


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 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, as a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.


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 Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there.


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 When Balaam perceived that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go as at the other times to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.


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 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.


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 he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:


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 As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.


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 Water shall flow from his buckets, his seed shall be in many waters, his king shall be higher than Agag; his kingdom shall be exalted.


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 God brings him out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them with his arrows.


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 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed, everyone who curses you is cursed.


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 Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.


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 Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honour; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honour.


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 "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says?'


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 Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.


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 he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:


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 I see him, but not now; I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob, a sceptre will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth.


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 Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.


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 He looked at Amalek and took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall come to destruction.


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 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable and said, Your dwelling place is strong, your nest is set in the rock.


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 But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim; they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction.


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 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.


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 Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.


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 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.


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 When Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;


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 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.


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 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has turned My wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I didn't consume the children of Israel in My jealousy.


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 and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel'.


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 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a father's house among the Simeonites.


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 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur: he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.


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 for they harassed you with their wiles, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi the daughter of the prince of Midian their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.


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 It happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,


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 Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' families, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel.


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 Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho saying,


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 Take a census, from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel. These are those that came out of the land of Egypt:


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 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;


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 These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.


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 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were renowned in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Yahweh,


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


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


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


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 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred.


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 The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.


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 The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.


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 These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.


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 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;


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 These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.


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 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.


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 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred.


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 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.


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 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;


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 Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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 These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.


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 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.


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 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.


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


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 The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.


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 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.


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 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.


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 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.


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 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.


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


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 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.


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


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 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.


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 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.


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 To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: to everyone according to those who were numbered of his family shall his inheritance be given.


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 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit it.


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 These are those who were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.


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 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.


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 The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.


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 Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.


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 These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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


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


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 The Case of Zelophehad's Daughters Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher the son of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.


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 They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,


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


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


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


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 You shall speak to the children of Israel saying, "If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.


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 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it; and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute and ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses'.


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 Yahweh said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.


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 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;


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 because you rebelled against My word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin).


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


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 Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;


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 and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and commission him in their sight.


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 He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.


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 Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation;


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 Command the children of Israel, and tell them, "My offering, My food for My offerings made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Me, you shall observe to offer to Me in their due season'.


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 You shall tell them, "This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.


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 with the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.


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 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.


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 Its drink offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. You shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh in the holy place.


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 The other lamb you shall offer at evening. As the grain offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.


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 On the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and the drink offering of it:


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 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.


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 In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


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 and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;


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 and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.


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 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.


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 One male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. 


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 but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish;


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 and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: you shall offer three tenth parts for a bull, and two tenth parts for the ram.


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 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.


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 In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it.


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 Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new grain offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no servile work;


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 but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;


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 and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,


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 Besides the continual burnt offering, and the grain offering of it, you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink offerings.


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 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy gathering. You shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.


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 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


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 and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the ram,


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 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the grain offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the grain offering of it, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.


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 On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy gathering; and you shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;


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 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old (they shall be to you without blemish);


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 and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for the bull, two tenth parts for the one ram,


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 one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the grain offering of it, and their drink offerings. 


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 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy gathering. You shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.


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 You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;


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 and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams,


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 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the grain offering of it, and the drink offering of it.


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 On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;


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 and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;


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 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the grain offering of it, and their drink offerings.


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 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the grain offering of it, and the drink offering of it.


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 their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;


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 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the grain offering of it, and the drink offering of it.


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 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the grain offering of it, and the drink offering of it.


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 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the grain offering of it, and the drink offerings of it.


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 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;


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 their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:


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 You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your grain offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings'.


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 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.


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 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.


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 Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth,


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 and her father hears her vow and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.


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 But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand; and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.


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 If she has a husband while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,


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 and her husband hears it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.


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 But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul; and Yahweh will forgive her.


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 But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.


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 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and didn't disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.


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 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void; and Yahweh will forgive her.


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


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 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds which are on her. He has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.


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 But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.


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


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 Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.


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


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 Moses sent them one thousand of every tribe to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.


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


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 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.


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 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.


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 They brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab which are by the Jordan at Jericho.


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


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 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who came from the service of the war.


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 Behold, these caused the children of Israel through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.


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 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.


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 Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.


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 As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.


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 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:


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 everything that may withstand the fire you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity; and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.


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 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp. 


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 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' households of the congregation;


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


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 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.


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 Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh.


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 Now the prey over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,


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 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;


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 Moses gave the tribute which was Yahweh's wave offering to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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 even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.


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 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;


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 and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.


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 We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.


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 All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.


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 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.


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 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead that behold, the place was a place for livestock.


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 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the princes of the congregation, saying,


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


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 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.


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 They said, If we have found favour in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don't bring us over the Jordan.


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


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 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?


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 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.


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 "Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me -


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 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed Yahweh completely'.


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 Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.


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 Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.


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


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 They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;


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 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.


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 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.


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


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 Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,


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 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,


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 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.


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 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.


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


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


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 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;


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 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.


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 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' households of the tribes of the children of Israel.


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 Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;


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


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 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.


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 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.


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 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.


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


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 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.


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 The Itinerary of Israel's Journeys These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.


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 Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh, and these are their journeys according to their goings out.


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 They travelled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,


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 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them. On their gods also Yahweh executed judgments.


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 They travelled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.


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 They travelled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness; and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.


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 They travelled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.


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 They travelled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.


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 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.


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 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.


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 They travelled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


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 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places.


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 You shall take possession of the land and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.


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 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.


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 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.


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 Command the children of Israel, and tell them, "When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),


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 then your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;


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 and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it shall be southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon;


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 and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.


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 For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border: this shall be your west border.


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 from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;


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 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your north border.


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 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;


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 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it'. 


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 Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe;


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 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' families and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' families, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance.


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 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.


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


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 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.


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 These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


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 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession some cities to dwell in, and you shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.


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 The cities shall they have to dwell in and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.


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 The suburbs of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be from the wall of the city and outward two thousand cubits around it.


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 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them for the suburbs of the cities.


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 The cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.


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 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.


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 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites. 


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 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, "When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,


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 then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unknowingly may flee there.


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 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.


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 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.


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 For the children of Israel and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, these six cities shall be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unintentionally may flee there.


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 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.


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 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.


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 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.


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 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;


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 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;


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 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.


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 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,


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 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.


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 These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.


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 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.


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 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.


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 You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.


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 So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.


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 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel'.


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 The heads of the fathers' households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' households of the children of Israel.


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 They said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.


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 If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe unto which they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.


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 When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.


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 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.


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 This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they will; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.


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 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.


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 Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.


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 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall each keep his own inheritance.


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


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


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 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


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 Obadiah's Vision against Edom The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Arise, and let's rise up against her in battle.


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 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?'.


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 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.


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 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night--oh, what disaster awaits you!--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?


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 All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.


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 Won't I in that day, says Yahweh, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?


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 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.


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 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.


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 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.


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 But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.


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 Don't enter into the gate of My people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.


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 Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.


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 For the day of Yahweh is nearly upon all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.


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 For as you have drunk on My holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.


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 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their inheritances.


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 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them and consume them. There will not be anyone remaining to the house of Esau. Truly Yahweh has spoken.


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 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.


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 The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.


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 Saviours will come up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh's.


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 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,


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 I pray that our fellowshipping of your faith may result in our coming to acknowledge every good thing which is in you in Christ.


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 Already I had much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you our brother.


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 yet I prefer to appeal to you for love's sake- I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus.


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 I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment. Paul's Appeal for Onesimus 


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 I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel.


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 But I preferred to do nothing without your consent, so that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will.


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 no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.


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 But meanwhile also prepare for me a lodging; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be restored to you.


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


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 Being confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will keep working at perfecting it, until the day of Jesus Christ.


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 It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, both in my imprisonment and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.


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 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, so that you may be sincere and void of offence until the day of Christ;


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


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 Now I would have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out for the progress of the gospel;


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 and further, most of the believers in the Lord, being made confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.


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 The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains;


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 What then? In every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed and therein I rejoice, yes and will rejoice. 


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 For I know that this shall result in my salvation, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,


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 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame; but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.


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 But if by living in the flesh, this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I do not know.


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 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and stay with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;


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 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ. That, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state- you standing fast in one spirit, with one mind together striving for the faith of the gospel,


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 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, and of your salvation- and that from God.


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 Because to you it has been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer in his behalf;


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 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,


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 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself;


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 but poured himself out, taking the mental attitude of a servant, and was the made just the same as all ordinary men.


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 And being perceived as a normal man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.


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 that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth,


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 So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.


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 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world,


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 holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or laboured in vain.


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 Yes, and if I am poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.


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 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may also be cheered by news of you.


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 But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served as an apprentice with me in declaring the gospel.


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 But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,


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


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


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 Because for the work of Christ he came near to death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me. 


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 Finally my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. For me to repeat the same things to you as I did before is not tedious, indeed it only confirms their certainty.


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 For we are the circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.


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 Though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more.


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 Circumcised the eighth day, of Israelite stock, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. As touching the law, a Pharisee.


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 As touching zeal, persecuting the church. As touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.


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 Yes indeed, I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ,


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 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own which is of the law, but which is through faith in Christ- the righteousness which is from God by faith;


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 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death.


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 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.


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 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own yet. But one thing I do, forgetting the past and looking forward to those things which are ahead,


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 Let us therefore, as many as are mature, be thus decided; and if in anything you are otherwise decided, this also shall God reveal to you.


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 For now, according to that understanding unto which we have attained, by that same rule let us walk.


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 For many walk, of whom I told you often and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ;


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 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.


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 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,


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 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself. 


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 Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, my beloved, stand firm in the Lord.


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 Yes, I urge you also, true companion, help these women, for they laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.


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 In nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.


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 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.


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 Finally brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honourable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things.


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 The things which you both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you. Paul's Practical Needs 


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 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me. I know you did indeed take thought for me, but you lacked opportunity.


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 I know how to be abased and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to have plenty and to be in want.


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 And you yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel's work, when I departed from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving, but you only.


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 But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, they were as the odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.


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 that the wise man may be obedient, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:


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 If they say, Come with us, let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;


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 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery and fools hate knowledge?


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 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;


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 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.


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 Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;


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 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with the fruit of their own schemes.


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 Don't let grace and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.


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 Don't say to your neighbour, Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you, when you have it by you.


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 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.


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 But the path of the righteous is like the light of the dawn, that shines more and more until the perfect day.


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 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.


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 My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbour, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,


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 Do this now my son and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbour. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbour.


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 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.


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 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.


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 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.


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 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.


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 while as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.


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 when He gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate His commandment, when He marked out the foundations of the earth;


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 instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.


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 The Proverbs of SolomonThe Righteous and the Wicked- Their Attitudes Contrasted The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.


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 Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but He thrusts away the desire of the wicked.


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 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.


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 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.


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 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.


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 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.


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 The Righteous and the Wicked- Their Behaviour and Destiny Contrasted A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are His delight.


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 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.


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 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.


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 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.


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 With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbour, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.


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 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.


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 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.


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 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.


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 Where there is no wise guidance the nation falls, but in the multitude of counsellors there is victory.


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 He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.


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 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are His delight.


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 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.


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 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.


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 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.


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 The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.


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 Better is he who is lightly esteemed and has a servant, than he who honours himself, and lacks bread.


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 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.


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 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth; the work of a man's hands shall be rewarded to him.


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 Discipline, Instruction and Prosperity A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.


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 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.


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 There are some who are made rich, yet have nothing. There are some who are made poor, yet have great wealth.


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 Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honoured.


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 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.


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 Fools: Their Characteristics and Destiny Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.


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 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honours Him.


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 Wisdom remains in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.


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 The king's favour is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.


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 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.


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 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but He loves him who follows after righteousness.


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 All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.


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 Joy comes to a man as a result of the reply of his mouth. How good is an appropriate word at the right time!


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 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.


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 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.


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 One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.


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 The Family, Relationships and Integrity Better is a dry morsel of bread with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.


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 A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.


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 A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he apparently prospers.


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 The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.


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 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.


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 A man without understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbour.


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 One who has a perverse heart doesn't find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.


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 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.


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 Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.


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 A brother offended is more difficult to be won than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.


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 A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.


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 Discipline, Poverty and Families Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.


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 All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.


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 The fear of Yahweh leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.


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 Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.


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 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.


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 The lazy will not plough by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.


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 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.


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 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.


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 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.


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 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright. Don't Live Just for Today 


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 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.


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 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.


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 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!


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 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty. 


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 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.


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 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. Eat and drink! he says to you, but his heart is not with you.


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 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?


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 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging:


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 They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up so that I can do it again?


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 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!


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 If you say, Behold, we didn't know this; doesn't He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't He know it? Shall He not render to every man according to his work?


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 so you shall feel wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.


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 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:


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 for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.


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 He who says to the wicked, You are righteous; peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him--


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 behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.


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 for it is better that it be said to you, Come up here, than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.


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 Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbour shames you?


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 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.


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 As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.


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 The Folly of Fools Like snow in summer and as rain in harvest, so honour is not fitting for a fool.


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 Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbour who is near than a distant brother.


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 He who blesses his neighbour with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.


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 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.


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 There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, for your family's food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.


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 If You Turn Aside from God's Law The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.


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 In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.


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 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.


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 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.


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 A man who is tormented by having taken life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.


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 One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.


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 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.


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 Where there is no Divine revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.


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 Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul; he takes an oath, but dares not testify.


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 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?


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 Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;


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 lest I be full, deny You, and say, "Who is Yahweh?', or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonour the name of my God.


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 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men. 


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 The leach has two daughters: "Give, give'. There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don't say, "Enough:'


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 Sheol; the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, "Enough'.


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 The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it. 


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 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.


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 So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, "I have done nothing wrong'. 


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 If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.


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 For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the churning of wrath brings forth judgment.


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 It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, "Where is strong drink?'


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 She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household and portions for her servant girls.


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 Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;


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 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither; whatever he does shall prosper.


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 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.


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 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against His Anointed saying,


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 Ask of Me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost ends of the earth for your possession.


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 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry and you perish in the way, for His wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in Him.


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 A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.


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 I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.


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 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For You have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.


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 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David. Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.


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 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonour? Will you love vanity, and go seeking after falsehood?


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 But know that Yahweh has set apart for Himself him who is Godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to Him.


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 For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David. Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.


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 Yahweh, in the morning You shall hear my voice; in the morning I will lay my requests before You, and will watch expectantly.


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 But as for me, in the abundance of Your grace I will come into Your house. I will bow toward Your holy temple in reverence of You.


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 Lead me, Yahweh, in Your righteousness because of my enemies. Make Your way straight before my face.


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 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.


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 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own advice; thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.


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 But let all those who take refuge in You rejoice, let them always shout for joy, because You defend them. Let them also who love Your name be joyful in You.


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 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, don't rebuke me in Your anger, neither discipline me in Your wrath.


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 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.


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 A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. Yahweh my God, I take refuge in You. Save me from all those who pursue me and deliver me,


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 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),


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 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust.


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 Arise, Yahweh, in Your anger; lift up Yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me; You have commanded judgment.


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 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.


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 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.


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 The trouble he causes shall return upon his own head, his violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.


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 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to His righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.


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 For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth, You who has set Your glory above the heavens!


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 From the lips of babes and infants You have established strength, because of Your adversaries, that You might silence the enemy and the avenger.


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 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained;


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 For the Chief Musician. Set to The Death of the Son. A Psalm by David. I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell others of all Your marvellous works.


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 You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked, You have blotted out their name forever and ever.


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 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which You have overthrown has perished.


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 He will judge the world in righteousness, He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.


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 Those who know Your name will put their trust in You, for You, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek You.


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 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;


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 that I may show forth all Your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in Your salvation.


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 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.


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 Yahweh has made Himself known; He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.


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 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is proud, and Your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.


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 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent, his eyes are secretly set against the helpless.


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 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.


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 But You do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into Your hand to deal with. You help the victim and the fatherless.


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 Yahweh, You have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause Your ear to hear,


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 For the Chief Musician. By David. In Yahweh I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, Flee as a bird to Your mountain!


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 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows and set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.


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 Yahweh is in His holy temple. Yahweh is on His throne in heaven. His eyes observe, His eyes examine the children of men.


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 On the wicked He will rain blazing coals; fire, sulphur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.


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 For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David. Help, Yahweh; for the Godly man is fading away, the faithful fail from among the children of men.


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 Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise, says Yahweh; I will set him in safety from those who malign him.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?


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 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?


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 For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.


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 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.


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 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.


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 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?


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 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of His people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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 he who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;


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 in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who respects those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;


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 he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.


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 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.


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 You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is fullness of joy, in Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.


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 A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.


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 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.


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 Show Your marvellous grace, You who save those who take refuge under Your right hand from their enemies.


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 from men by Your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of Your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.


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 As for me, I shall see Your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing Your form.


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 For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love You, Yahweh, my strength.


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 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.


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 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of His temple; my cry before Him came into His ears.


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 Then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because He was angry.


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 He made darkness His hiding place, His pavilion around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.


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 Then the channels of waters appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare at Your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.


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 Yahweh has judged me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands has He recompensed me.


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 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His eyesight.


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 With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful. With the perfect man, You will show Yourself perfect.


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 As for God, His way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried in the furnace. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in Him.


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 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.


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 For You have armed me with strength to the battle, You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.


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 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people, You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.


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 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, You lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.


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 Therefore I will give thanks to You, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to Your name.


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 He gives great deliverance to His king, and shows grace to His anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God, the expanse above shows His handiwork.


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 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tent for the sun,


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 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; there is nothing hidden from its heat.


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 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.


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 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.


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 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.


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 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins, let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright, I will be blameless and innocent of the great transgression.


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 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,


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 We will triumph in Your salvation, in the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.


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 Now I know that Yahweh saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven, with the saving strength of His right hand.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The king rejoices in Your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in Your salvation!


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 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of Your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in His wrath, the fire shall devour them.


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 For the Chief Musician; set to The Doe of the Morning. A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?


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 I am poured out like water, all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.


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 My strength is dried up like a shard of pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.


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 For dogs have surrounded me, a company of evildoers have enclosed me; they have pierced my hands and feet.


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 You who fear Yahweh, praise Him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him! Stand in awe of Him, all you descendants of Israel!


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 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has He hidden His face from him; but when he cried to Him, He heard.


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 The humble shall eat and be satisfied, they who seek after Him shall praise Yahweh. May your hearts live forever.


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 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh, all the families of nations shall worship before You.


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 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship, all those who go down to the dust shall bow before Him, even he who can't keep his own soul alive.


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 They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people that shall be born, for He has finished it.


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 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and staff, they comfort me.


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 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil, My cup runs over.


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 Surely goodness and grace shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever.


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 A Psalm by David. The earth is Yahweh's, with all its fullness; the world, and they who dwell in it.


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 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.


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 This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face--even that of the God of Jacob. Selah.


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 Lift up your heads, you gatekeepers! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.


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 Lift up your heads, you gatekeepers; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.


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 Truly, no one who waits for You shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.


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 Guide me in Your truth, and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; I wait for You all day long.


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 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to Your grace, for Your goodness' sake, Yahweh.


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 By David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.


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 By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation- whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life- of whom shall I be afraid?


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 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.


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 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.


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 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in His temple.


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 For in the day of trouble He will keep me secretly in His pavilion, under the shadow of His tabernacle He will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.


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 Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.


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 Don't hide Your face from me; don't put Your servant away in anger. You have been my help, don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.


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 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.


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 By David. To You, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if You are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.


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 Hear the voice of my petitions when I cry to You, when I lift up my hands toward Your Most Holy Place.


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 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.


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 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the working of their own hands; bring back on them what they deserve.


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 Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the working of His hands, He will break them down and not build them up.


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 Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank Him.


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 Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In His temple everything says, Glory!


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 Yahweh will give strength to His people, Yahweh will bless His people with peace. A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple.


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 By David. I will extol You, Yahweh, for You have raised me up, and have not made my enemies to rejoice over me.


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 Yahweh, You have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.


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 For His anger is but for a moment; His grace is for all our lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.


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 You, Yahweh, when You favoured me, made my mountain stand strong; but when You hid Your face, I was troubled.


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 What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it declare Your truth?


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 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,


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 To the end that my heart may sing praise to You, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to You forever!


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In You, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in Your righteousness.


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 Bow down Your ear to me, deliver me quickly. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defence to save me.


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 I will be glad and rejoice in Your grace, for You have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.


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 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.


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 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my sin, my bones are wasted away.


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 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbours, a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.


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 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.


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 Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on You. Let the wicked be disappointed, may they be silent in Sheol.


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 Oh how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have worked for those who take refuge in You, before the sons of men!


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 In the shelter of Your presence You will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.


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 As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before Your eyes. Nevertheless You heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to You.


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 Oh love Yahweh, all you His saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.


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 For day and night Your hand was heavy on me, my strength was dried as in the heat of summer. Selah.


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 I acknowledged my sin to You, I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.


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 For this, let each one who is Godly pray to You in a time when You may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.


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 You are my hiding place, You will preserve me from trouble, You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.


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 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go, I will counsel you with my eye on you.


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 Don't be like the horse or like the mule which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.


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 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no power.


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 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army; a mighty man is not delivered by great strength.


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 By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless Yahweh at all times; His praise will always be in my mouth.


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 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.


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 By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me.


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 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonour. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.


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 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me, without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.


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 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself; let him fall into that destruction.


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 All my bones shall say, Yahweh, who is like You, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?


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 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.


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 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.


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 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.


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 Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.


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 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.


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 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.


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 Don't let them say in their heart, Aha! That's just the way we want it! Don't let them say, We have swallowed him up!


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 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonour who magnify themselves against me.


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 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favour my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant!


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 For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh. An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.


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 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, You preserve man and animal.


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 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of Your house; You will make them drink of the river of Your pleasures.


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 By David. Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.


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 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for Him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.


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 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.


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 The wicked have drawn out the sword and have bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.


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 But the wicked shall perish, the enemies of Yahweh shall be like the passing beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.


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 For such as are blessed by Him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by Him shall be cut off.


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 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.


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 For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.


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 Wait for Yahweh, and keep His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.


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 Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, because they have taken refuge in Him.


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 A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don't rebuke me in Your wrath, neither chasten me in Your hot displeasure.


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 There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.


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 They also who seek after my life lay snares, those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.


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 For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.


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 Behold, you have made my days mere handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath. Selah.


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 Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.


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 When You rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his days like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath. Selah.


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 Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with You, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.


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 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.


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 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.


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 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.


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 Many, Yahweh my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to You. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.


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 Sacrifice and offering You didn't desire. You have digged my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.


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 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, You know.


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 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart. I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your grace and Your truth from the great assembly.


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 Don't withhold Your tender mercies from me, Yahweh; let Your grace and Your truth continually preserve me.


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 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.


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 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour who delight in my hurt.


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 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You. Let such as love Your salvation say continually, Let Yahweh be exalted!


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 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.


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 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.


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 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes outside, he tells it.


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 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.


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 For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, God.


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 These things I remember and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God's house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.


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 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise Him for the saving help of His presence.


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 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.


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 Deep calls to deep at the noise of Your waterfalls. All Your waves and Your billows have swept over me.


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 Yahweh will command His grace in the daytime. In the night His song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.


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 I will ask God, my rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, Where is your God?


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 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise Him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.


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 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.


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 For You are the God of my strength. Why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


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 Oh, send out Your light and Your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy hill, to Your great tent.


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 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise You on the harp, God, my God.


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 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise Him: my saviour, my helper, and my God.


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 For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work You did in their days, in the days of old.


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 You drove out the nations with Your hand, but You planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but You spread them abroad.


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 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You were favourable to them.


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 Through You will we push down our adversaries. Through Your name will we tread them under who rise up against us.


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 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten You, neither have we been false to Your covenant.


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 For the Chief Musician. Set to The Lilies. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song. My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skilful writer.


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 You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.


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 In your majesty ride victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.


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 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.


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 All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of the ivory palaces the stringed instruments have made you glad.


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 Kings' daughters are among your honourable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.


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 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.


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 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.


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 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you praise forever and ever.


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 For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.


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 Therefore we won't be afraid though the earth shakes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;


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 There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.


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 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.


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 Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!


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 The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!


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 A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain.


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 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.


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 As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.


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 As is Your name, God, so is Your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,


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 For He sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.


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 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.


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 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansions.


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 But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes and to have taken My covenant on your lips,


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 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.


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 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies Me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to Your grace. According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.


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 Against You, and You only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in Your sight; that You may be proved right when You speak, and justified when You judge.


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 Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.


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 For You don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it; You have no pleasure in burnt offering.


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 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.


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 Then You will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bullocks on Your altar.


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 For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, David has come to Abimelech's house. Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's grace endures continually.


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 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.


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 Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.


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 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's grace forever and ever.


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 I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it. I will hope in Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your saints.


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 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of Mahalath. A contemplation by David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.


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 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.


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 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.


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 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?


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 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.


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 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back His people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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 For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Isn't David hiding himself among us? Save me, God, by Your name. Vindicate me in Your might.


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 For strangers have risen up against me, violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.


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 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to You. I will give thanks to Your name, Yahweh, for it is good.


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 For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David. Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide Yourself from my supplication.


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 because of the words of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me, in anger they hold a grudge against me.


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 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it; neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.


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 Let death come suddenly on them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.


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 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.


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 God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, those who don't fear God.


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 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.


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 Cast your burden on Yahweh, and He will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.


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 But You, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in You.


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 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of Silent Dove in Distant Lands. A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long he attacks and oppresses me.


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 In God, I praise His word. In God do I put my trust. I will not be afraid- what can flesh do to me?


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 For You have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.


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 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of Do Not Destroy. A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in You. Yes, in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.


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 He will send from heaven and save me, He rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out His grace and His truth.


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 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.


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 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down, they dig a snare before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.


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 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of Do Not Destroy. A poem by David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?


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 Let them be like the path of a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.


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 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.


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 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;


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 so that men shall say, Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.


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 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of Do Not Destroy. A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God; lift me on high from those who rise up against me.


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 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.


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 You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.


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 Don't kill them immediately, or my people may forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.


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 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.


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 Consume them in wrath, consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.


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 But I will sing of Your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of Your grace in the morning. For You have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.


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 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of The Lily of the Covenant. A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. God, You have rejected us. You have broken us down, You have been angry. Restore us again.


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 You have given a banner to those who fear You, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.


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 God has spoken from His sanctuary: I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.


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 For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David. Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.


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 From the end of the land I will call to You when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.


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 He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint Your grace and truth that they may preserve him.


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 For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from Him.


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 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?


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 They fully intend to throw him down from his high place. They delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.


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 Trust in Him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before Him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.


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 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up; they are together lighter than a breath.


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 Don't trust in oppression, don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.


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 A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, You are my God; I will earnestly seek You. My soul thirsts for You, my flesh longs for You, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.


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 But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by Him will praise Him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.


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 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?


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 All mankind shall be in awe. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what He has done.


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 The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in Him. All the upright in heart shall praise Him!


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Praise waits for You, God, in Zion. To You shall vows be performed.


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 Blessed is the person whom You choose and cause to come near, that he may live in Your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of Your house, Your holy temple.


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 By awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;


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 They also who dwell in distant places are afraid at Your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.


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 You visit the earth, and water it; You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so You have ordained it.


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 You drench its furrows, You level its ridges, You soften it with showers, You bless it with a crop.


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 The pastures are covered with flocks, the valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.


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 Tell God, How awesome are Your deeds! Through the greatness of Your power, Your enemies submit themselves to You.


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 He rules by His might forever, His eyes watch the nations. Don't let the rebellious rise up against Him. Selah.


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 You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but You brought us to the place of abundance.


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 I will offer to You burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.


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 For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song. May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause His face to shine on us. Selah.


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 Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for You will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let His enemies be scattered! Let them who hate Him also flee before Him.


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 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.


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 Sing to God! Sing praises to His name! Extol Him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, His name! Rejoice before Him!


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 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.


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 The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai-- at the presence of God, the God of Israel.


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 while you men sleep among the campfires- the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.


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 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.


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 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the sanctuary.


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 You have ascended on high, You have led away captives in your victory train, You have received gifts to distribute among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.


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 But God will strike through the head of His enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.


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 The Lord said, I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;


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 that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.


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 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines, singing


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 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.


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 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may they bring tribute of bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.


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 To Him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, He utters His voice, a mighty voice.


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 You are awesome, God, in Your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to His people. Praise be to God!


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 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of Lilies. By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!


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 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.


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 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.


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 Don't let those who wait for You be shamed on my account, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek You be brought to dishonour through me, God of Israel.


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 For the zeal of Your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.


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 But as for me, my prayer is to You, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of Your grace, answer me in the truth of Your salvation.


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 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.


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 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.


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 Answer me, Yahweh, for Your grace is good. According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, turn to me.


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 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.


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 For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.


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 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.


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 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You. Let those who love Your salvation continually say, Let God be exalted!


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 But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.


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 Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.


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 I have relied on You from the womb. You are He who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise You.


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 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.


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 My mouth will tell others about Your righteousness and Your salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.


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 I will declare the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of Your righteousness, even of Yours alone.


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 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared Your strength to the next generation, Your might to everyone who is to come.


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 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; You have done great things. God, who is like You?


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 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, You will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth,


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 I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, my God. I sing praise to You with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.


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 My tongue will also talk about Your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed and they are confounded who want to harm me.


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 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people, the hills will bring the fruit of righteousness.


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 He will judge the poor of the people, he will save the children of the needy and will break the oppressor in pieces.


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 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute, the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.


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 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually, they shall bless him all day long.


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 Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land, its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field!


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 His name endures forever, his name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed in him, all nations will call him blessed.


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 For, behold, those who are far from You shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.


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 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works.


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 A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have You rejected us forever? Why does Your anger smoulder against the sheep of Your pasture?


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 Remember Your congregation which You purchased of old, which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which You have lived.


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 Lift up Your feet on the perpetual ruins, see all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.


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 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.


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 They said in their heart, We will crush them completely. They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.


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 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.


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 Don't forget the voice of Your adversaries; the tumult of those who rise up against You ascends continually.


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 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of Do Not Destroy. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. We give thanks to You, God. We give thanks, for Your Name is near. Men tell about Your wondrous works.


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 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out; indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.


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 For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah God is known, His name is great in Israel.


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 There He broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield and the sword and the weapons of war. Selah.


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 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.


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 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfil them! Let all of His neighbours bring presents to Him who is to be feared.


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 For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph. My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for Him to listen to me.


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 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't retract. My soul refused to be comforted.


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 The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind, the lightnings lit up the world, the earth trembled and shook.


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 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, His strength, and His wondrous works that He has done.


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 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a teaching in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;


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 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,


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 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.


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 He did marvellous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.


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 Behold, He struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can He give bread also? Will He provide flesh for His people?


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 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,


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 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.


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 But He, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times He turned His anger away, and didn't stir up all His wrath.


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 He threw on them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, indignation, trouble, and a band of angels of evil.


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 He made a path for His anger, He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,


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 He brought them to the border of His sanctuary, to this mountain, which His right hand had purchased.


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 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.


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 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.


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 For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their engraved images.


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 from following the ewes that have their young, He brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.


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 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.


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 A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into Your inheritance, they have defiled Your holy temple, they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.


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 They have given the dead bodies of Your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the land.


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 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that don't know You, on the kingdoms that don't call on Your name;


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 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us; let Your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.


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 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name. Deliver us and forgive our sins, for Your name's sake.


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 Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for Your servants' blood is being poured out.


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 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before You. According to the greatness of Your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.


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 Pay back to our neighbours seven times into their lap their reproach with which they have reproached You, Lord.


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 So we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, will give You thanks forever. We will praise You forever, to all generations.


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 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of The Lilies of the Covenant. A Psalm by Asaph. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock, You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.


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 Let Your hand be on the man of Your right hand, on the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.


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 For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!


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 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.


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 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder, I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.


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 I am Yahweh your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.


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 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.


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 The haters of Yahweh would have cringed before Him, and their punishment would have lasted forever.


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 But He would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat, I would have satisfied you with honey out of the rock.


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 They don't know, neither do they understand; they wander back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.


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 Come, they say, and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.


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 that they may know that You alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.


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 My soul longs and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.


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 Yes, the sparrow has found a home and the swallow a nest for herself where she may have her young, near Your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.


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 Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.


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 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the tent of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.


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 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield, Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Yahweh, You have been favourable to Your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob,


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 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for He will speak peace to His people, His saints; but let them not turn again to folly.


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 God, the proud have risen up against me; a company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for You before them.


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 Show me a sign of Your goodness, that those who hate me may see it and be shamed, because You, Yahweh, have helped me and comforted me.


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 Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give Your strength to Your servant, save the son of Your handmaid.


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 I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre and also Ethiopia: This one was born there.


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 Yes, of Zion it will be said, This one and that one was born in her; the Most High Himself will establish her.


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 A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of The Suffering of Affliction. A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before You.


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 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more- they are cut off from Your hand.


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 You have taken my friends from me, You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in and I can't escape.


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 A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the grace of Yahweh forever. With my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness to all generations.


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 I indeed declare, Love stands firm forever because You established the skies; Your faithfulness is in them.


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 The skies will praise Your wonders, Yahweh; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.


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 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,


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 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around Him?


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 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.


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 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim You; they shall walk in the light of Your face, Yahweh.


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 Then You spoke in vision to Your saints and said, I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.


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 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.


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 Remember, Lord, the reproach of Your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,


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 with which Your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed one.


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 Book IV A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.


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 Before the mountains were brought forth, before You had formed the land and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.


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 For a thousand years in Your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.


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 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labour and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we pass away.


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 Let the grace of the Lord our God be upon us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.


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 He will cover you with His feathers, beneath His wings you will take refuge; His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.


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 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.


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 Because he has set His love on Me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known My name.


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 He will call on Me and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honour him.


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 A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to Your name, Most High;


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 though the wicked spring up as the grass and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.


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 For, behold, Your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, Your enemies shall perish; all the evildoers will be scattered.


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 Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established to stand firm, so that it can't be moved.


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 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.


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 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.


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 for He is our God. We are the people of His pasture, and the sheep in His care. Today, oh that you would hear His voice!


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 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation and said, It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known My ways.


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 Say among the nations, Yahweh reigns! The world is also established, so that it can't be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.


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 before Yahweh; for He comes, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with His truth.


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 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.


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 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship Him, all you gods!


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 You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of His saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.


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 A Psalm. Sing to Yahweh a new song, for He has done marvellous things! His right hand and His holy arm have worked salvation for Him.


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 Yahweh has made known His salvation, He has openly shown His righteousness in the sight of the nations.


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 He has remembered His grace and His faithfulness toward the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.


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 Let them sing before Yahweh, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.


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 Yahweh reigns! Let the nations tremble. He sits enthroned between the cherubim: let the earth be moved.


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 The King's strength also loves justice; You establish equity, You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.


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 Moses and Aaron were among His priests, Samuel among those who call on His name; they called on Yahweh, and He answered them.


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 You answered them, Yahweh our God; You are a God who forgave them, although You took vengeance for their doings.


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 Know that Yahweh, He is God. It is He who has made us and not we ourselves, and we are His. We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.


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 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, into His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, and bless His name.


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 I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.


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 I will set no vile thing before my eyes; I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.


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 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbour. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.


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 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.


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 He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.


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 Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city.


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 A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh. Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come in to You.


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 Don't hide Your face from me in the day of my distress, turn Your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.


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 You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her, yes, the set time has come.


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 I said, My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.


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 They perish, but You will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.


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 But Yahweh's grace is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear Him, His righteousness to children's children;


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 Praise Yahweh, you angels of His, who are mighty in strength, who fulfil His word, obeying the voice of His word.


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 Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, You are very great. You are clothed with honour and majesty.


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 He lays the beams of His rooms in the waters, He makes the clouds His chariot, He walks on the wings of the wind.


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 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.


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 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that He may bring forth food out of the earth:


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 wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.


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 Yahweh, how many are Your works! In wisdom have You made them all. The earth is full of Your riches.


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 There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.


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 You hide Your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.


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 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!


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 that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your inheritance.


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 Our fathers didn't understand Your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of Your graces, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.


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 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so He led them through the depths, as through a desert.


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 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, so that He wouldn't destroy them.


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 They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.


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 Many times He delivered them, but they were rebellious in their ways, and were brought low in their iniquity.


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 Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to Your holy name, to triumph in Your praise!


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 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, Amen. Praise Yah!


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 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.


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 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.


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 A Song. A Psalm by David. My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.


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 I will give thanks to You, Yahweh, among the nations, I will sing praises to You among the peoples.


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 God has spoken from His sanctuary: In triumph I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.


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 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.


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 Let there be nobody to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.


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 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh, don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.


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 because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.


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 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and so it was far from him.


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 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment; it came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.


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 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, like the belt that is always around him.


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 They may curse, but You bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but Your servant shall rejoice.


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 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonour, may they cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.


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 A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.


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 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy attire. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.


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 Yahweh has sworn, and will not change His mind: You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.


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 He will judge among the nations, He will heap up dead bodies, He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.


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 Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.


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 He has sent redemption to His people, He has ordained His covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!


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 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do His work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!


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 He has dispersed, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever, His horn will be exalted with honour.


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 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.


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 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for Your the sake of Your grace and truth.


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 They have hands, but they don't feel; they have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.


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 Yahweh remembers us; He will bless us, He will bless the house of Israel, He will bless the house of Aaron.


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 Yahweh, truly I am Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.


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 Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.


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 They surrounded me like bees but they are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.


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 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous: The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.


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 Yahweh is God, and He has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.


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 Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully; but I will meditate on Your precepts.


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 where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.


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 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh our God until He has mercy on us.


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 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.


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 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.


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 A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion which can't be moved but remains forever.


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 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds His people from this time forth and forever.


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 For the sceptre of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't put forth their hands to do evil.


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 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.


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 A Song of Ascents. When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.


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 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, Yahweh has done great things for them.


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 He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy carrying his sheaves.


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 A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labour in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.


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 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for He gives sleep to His beloved ones.


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 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they won't be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.


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 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants around your table.


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 Neither do those who go by say, The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh.


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 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.


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 A Song of Ascents. By David. Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.


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 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.


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 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth, He will not turn from it: I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.


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 If your children will keep My covenant, My testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever.


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 A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!


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 It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;


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 like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever.


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 A Song of Ascents. Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh's house!


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 who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the land; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of His treasuries;


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 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded us songs of joy: Sing us one of the songs of Zion!


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 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.


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 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!


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 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you as you have served us.


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 By David. I will give You thanks with my whole heart. Before the mighty ones I will sing praises to You.


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 I will bow down toward Your holy temple, and give thanks to Your Name for Your grace and for Your truth; for You have exalted above all things your name and your word.


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 All the kings of the land will give You thanks, Yahweh, for they have heard the words of Your mouth.


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 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.


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 Yahweh will fulfil that which concerns me; Your grace, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of Your own hands.


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 even the darkness doesn't hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness is like light to You.


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 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful and my soul knows that very well.


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 My frame wasn't hidden from You when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.


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 Your eyes saw my body. In Your book my body parts were all written and the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.


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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man


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 and those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war,


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 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.


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 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path, they have set traps for me. Selah.


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 Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.


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 A Psalm by David. Yahweh, I have called on You. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to You.


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 Let my prayer be set before You like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.


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 Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity; don't let me eat of their delicacies.


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 Let the righteous strike me, it is a kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it.; and my prayer will be for them in their calamities.


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 A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. I cry with my voice to Yahweh, with my voice I ask Yahweh for mercy.


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 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.


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 Look on my right hand and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me, no one cares for my soul.


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 Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than me.


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 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to Your name. The righteous will surround me, for You will be good to me.


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 A Psalm by David. Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In Your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.


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 For the enemy pursues my soul; he has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.


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 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide Your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.


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 Cause me to hear Your grace in the morning, for I trust in You. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.


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 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. Your Spirit is good; lead me in the land of uprightness.


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 In Your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am Your servant.


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 my source of grace, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield and He in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.


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 Stretch out Your hand from above, rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;


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 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.


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 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like corner stones carved to adorn a palace.


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 Our barns will be full, filled with all kinds of provision; our sheep will bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.


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 Our oxen will pull heavy loads, there will be no breaking in and no going away, and no crying in our streets.


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 A praise psalm by David. I will exalt You my God as the King. I will praise Your name forever and ever.


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 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all His words, and loving in all His deeds.


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 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind, Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down, Yahweh loves the righteous.


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 Yahweh preserves the strangers, He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked He turns upside down.


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 Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise Him.


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 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.


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 let them praise the name of Yahweh, for His name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and the skies.


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 He has lifted up the horn of His people, inspiring the praise of all His saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to Him. Praise Yah!


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 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must shortly come to pass; which he sent and put into sign by his Angel to his servant John;


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 who testified of the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw.


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 Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein; for the time is near.


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 John to the seven churches that are in Asia. Grace to you and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits that are before His throne.


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 And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him that loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood,


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 and who made us kings and priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


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 Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. So shall it be! Amen.


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 I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.


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 I John, your brother and partaker with you in tribulation and the kingdom and patience of Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.


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 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying:


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 What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches. To Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. 


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 And in the midst of the candlesticks- one like a Son of Man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.


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 And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire.


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 And his feet were like bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the voice of many waters.


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 And he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun shines in its strength.


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 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the first and the last,


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 the living one; and I was dead, but behold, I am alive for always, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.


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 Therefore write the things which you see, and the things which are, and the things which shall hereafter come to pass.


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 This is the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are seven churches.


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 To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, he that walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:


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 I know your works and your toil and patience, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and did test them that call themselves apostles, and yet are not, and found them false.


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 Therefore remember from where you have fallen and repent, and do the first works. Or else, unless you repent, I will come to you and move your candlestick out of its place.


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 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him that overcomes, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God. 


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 And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write these things: The first and the last, who was dead and lived again, says:


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 I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich!) and the blasphemy of those that say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.


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 Do not fear the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison, you may be tried have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.


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 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He that overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death. 


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 And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things says he that has the sharp two-edged sword:


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 I know where you live, where Satan's throne is, yet you remained loyal to my name and did not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.


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 But I have a few things against you, because you have there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.


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 Therefore repent, or else I will come to you quickly, and I will make war against those with the sword of my mouth.


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 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him that overcomes, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he that receives it. 


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 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things says the Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire and his feet are like to burnished bronze:


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 I know your works and your love, faith, ministry and patience; and that your last works are more than the first.


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 But I have this against you: you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and seduces my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols.


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 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, into great tribulation, and those that commit adultery with her-unless they repent of their works.


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 And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will repay each of you as your works deserve.


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 But to you I say, to the rest that are in Thyatira, as many as do not have this teaching, who do not know the so-called deep things of Satan: I will not impose any other burden


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 And he that overcomes, and he that keeps my works to the end, to him will I give authority over the nations.


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 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces; as I also have received from my Father.


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 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things says he that has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.


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 Be watchful and establish the things that remain, which are ready to die. For I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.


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 Therefore remember how you have received, and did once hear and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you shall not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know what time I will come upon you.


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 But you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their clothes, and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.


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 He that overcomes shall thus be dressed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life; and I will confess his name before my Father and before His angels.


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 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens and none shall shut, and that shuts and none opens.


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 I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which none can shut), you have a little power and did keep my word and did not deny my name.


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 Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and they are not, but do lie- behold, I will make these come to you and bow down at your feet, and to know that I have loved you.


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 Because you did keep the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the time of trial which is to come upon the whole world, to test them that dwell upon the earth.


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 He that overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall leave there no more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God; and my own new name.


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 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.


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 For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.


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 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may become rich; and to clothe yourselves with white garments, that the shame of your nakedness be not revealed; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve so you may see.


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 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him and he with me.


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 He that overcomes, I will allow him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father on His throne.


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 After these things I looked, and beheld a door opened in heaven; and the first voice that I heard, as if a trumpet was speaking to me, was as one saying: Come up here, and I will show you the things which hereafter must came to pass.


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 Immediately I was in the Spirit, and beheld a throne set in heaven; and one sitting upon the throne.


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 And he that sat on it was to look upon like a jasper stone, and a sardius; and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.


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 And round about the throne were twenty four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, and on their heads were crowns of gold.


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 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings, voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.


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 And in front of the throne there was as it were a sea of glass like a crystal; and in the midst of the throne and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.


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 And the first creature was like a lion, the second creature like a calf, the third creature had the face of a man and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.


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 And the four living creatures each had six wings, full of eyes round about and within; and they have no rest day and night, saying: Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.


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 And when the living creatures shall give glory and honour and thanks to him that sits on the throne, to him that lives for ever and ever,


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 the twenty four elders shall fall down before him that sits on the throne and shall worship him that lives for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying:


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 Worthy are you, our Lord, to receive the glory and the honour and the power. For you did create all things, and for your sake they existed and were created.


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 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.


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 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice: Who is worthy to open the scroll and to undo the seals of it?


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 And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the scroll, or to look thereon.


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 And one of the elders said to me: Do not weep. Behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered; he can open the scroll and the seven seals of it.


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 And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had just been slain. The lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.


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 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty four elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.


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 And they sing a new song, saying: Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open the seals of it. For you once were slain, and did purchase for God a people with your blood, people of every tribe, tongue and nation,


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 And I looked, and I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.


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 They were saying with a great voice: Worthy is the Lamb that has been slain to receive the power, riches, wisdom, might, honour, glory and blessing.


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 And I heard every created thing in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, be blessing, honour, glory and might, for ever and ever.


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 And I looked when the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder: Come!


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 And I looked and beheld a white horse, and he that sat thereon had a bow, and there was given to him a crown, and he came forth conquering and to conquer.


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 And another horse came forth, a red horse, and to him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth, that they should slay one another. And there was given to him a great sword.


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 And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying: Come! And I looked and beheld a black horse, and he that sat thereon had a balance in his hand.


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 And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying: A measure of wheat for a denarius and three measures of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.


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 And I looked and beheld a pale horse, and he that sat upon him. His name was Death, and Hades followed behind him. And there was given to them authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with death and by the wild beasts of the earth.


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 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those that had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.


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 And they cried with a great voice, saying: How long, O Master, the holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?


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 And each one was given a white robe, and they were told that they should wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been, was completed.


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 And I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake, the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon turned the colour of blood.


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 And the stars of the heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts her unripe figs when she is shaken by a great wind.


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 And the sky was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.


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 And the kings of the earth, the princes, the chief captains, the rich, the strong and every slave and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.


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 And they said to the mountains and to the rocks: Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him that sits on the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb.


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 Sealing God's Servants After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree.


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 And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, having the seal of the living God; and he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,


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 saying: Do not hurt the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.


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 And I heard the number of those that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel.


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 Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand.


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 Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand.


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 Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand.


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 Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.


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 After these things I saw and beheld a great crowd, which no one could number, out of every nation, comprised of all tribes, peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes and with palms in their hands.


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 And they cry with a great voice, saying: Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!


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 And all the angels were standing round about the throne and about the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God,


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 saying: Amen. Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honour, power and might to our God for ever and ever. Amen.


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 And one of the elders asked me: These that are dressed in white robes, who are they and from where did they come?


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 And I replied: My lord, do you know? And he explained to me: These are they that came out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.


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 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His temple, and He that sits on the throne shall spread His tabernacle over them.


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 They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more. Neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat.


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 For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them to springs of living water, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.


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 And another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.


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 And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.


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 And the angel took the censer, filled it with the fire of the altar and cast it upon the earth. There followed thunders, voices, lightnings and an earthquake. 


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 And the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood; and they were cast upon the earth. The third part of the earth was burnt up, as was the third part of the trees; and all green grass was burnt up.


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 And the second angel blew his trumpet and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood.


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 And there died the third part of the creatures (even they that had life) which were in the sea, and the third part of the ships were destroyed.


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 And the third angel blew his trumpet, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch; and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of the waters.


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 And the name of the star is called Wormwood, and one third of the waters became bitter-tasting; and many men died because the waters were made so bitter.


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 And the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck and a third of the moon and a third of the stars. This meant that the third part of them were darkened; and the day would not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner.


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 And I saw and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a great voice: Woe, woe, woe, for those who dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are yet to sound.


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 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star from heaven fall to the earth; and there was given to him the key to the pit of the abyss.


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 And he opened the pit of the abyss and smoke went out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.


