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 <div class="p">5The Lord said to Moses: 6&#8220;Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean. 7To purify them, do this: Sprinkle the water of cleansing on them; then have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. And so they will purify themselves. 8Have them take a young bull with its grain offering of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.#8:8 Or purification offering; also in verse 12 9Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting and assemble the whole Israelite community. 10You are to bring the Levites before the Lord, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on them. 11Aaron is to present the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites, so that they may be ready to do the work of the Lord.</div><div class="p">12&#8220;Then the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, using one for a sin offering to the Lord and the other for a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites. 13Have the Levites stand in front of Aaron and his sons and then present them as a wave offering to the Lord. 14In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the other Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.</div><div class="p">15&#8220;After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a wave offering, they are to come to do their work at the tent of meeting. 16They are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to me. I have taken them as my own in place of the firstborn, the first male offspring from every Israelite woman. 17Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal, is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself. 18And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel. 19From among all the Israelites, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aaron and his sons to do the work at the tent of meeting on behalf of the Israelites and to make atonement for them so that no plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary.&#8221;</div><div class="p">20Moses, Aaron and the whole Israelite community did with the Levites just as the Lord commanded Moses. 21The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes. Then Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the Lord and made atonement for them to purify them. 22After that, the Levites came to do their work at the tent of meeting under the supervision of Aaron and his sons. They did with the Levites just as the Lord commanded Moses.</div><div class="p">23The Lord said to Moses, 24&#8220;This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more shall come to take part in the work at the tent of meeting, 25but at the age of fifty, they must retire from their regular service and work no longer. 26They may assist their brothers in performing their duties at the tent of meeting, but they themselves must not do the work. This, then, is how you are to assign the responsibilities of the Levites.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">84</div><div class="cl">Psalm 84#In Hebrew texts 84:1-12 is numbered 84:2-13.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. According to gittith.#Title: Probably a musical term Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.</div><div class="q1">1How lovely is your dwelling place,</div><div class="q2">Lord Almighty!</div><div class="q1">2My soul yearns, even faints,</div><div class="q2">for the courts of the Lord;</div><div class="q1">my heart and my flesh cry out</div><div class="q2">for the living God.</div><div class="q1">3Even the sparrow has found a home,</div><div class="q2">and the swallow a nest for herself,</div><div class="q2">where she may have her young&#8212;</div><div class="q1">a place near your altar,</div><div class="q2">Lord Almighty, my King and my God.</div><div class="q1">4Blessed are those who dwell in your house;</div><div class="q2">they are ever praising you.#84:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 8.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">5Blessed are those whose strength is in you,</div><div class="q2">whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.</div><div class="q1">6As they pass through the Valley of Baka,</div><div class="q2">they make it a place of springs;</div><div class="q2">the autumn rains also cover it with pools.#84:6 Or blessings</div><div class="q1">7They go from strength to strength,</div><div class="q2">till each appears before God in Zion.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">8Hear my prayer, Lord God Almighty;</div><div class="q2">listen to me, God of Jacob.</div><div class="q1">9Look on our shield,#84:9 Or sovereign O God;</div><div class="q2">look with favor on your anointed one.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">10Better is one day in your courts</div><div class="q2">than a thousand elsewhere;</div><div class="q1">I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God</div><div class="q2">than dwell in the tents of the wicked.</div><div class="q1">11For the Lord God is a sun and shield;</div><div class="q2">the Lord bestows favor and honor;</div><div class="q1">no good thing does he withhold</div><div class="q2">from those whose walk is blameless.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">12 Lord Almighty,</div><div class="q2">blessed is the one who trusts in you.</div>
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 <div class="p">1One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, &#8220;Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.&#8221;</div><div class="p">2He said to them, &#8220;When you pray, say:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Father, #11:2 Some manuscripts Our Father in heaven</div><div class="q1">hallowed be your name,</div><div class="q1">your kingdom come. #11:2 Some manuscripts come. May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.</div><div class="q1">3 Give us each day our daily bread.</div><div class="q1">4 Forgive us our sins,</div><div class="q2">for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. #11:4 Greek everyone who is indebted to us</div><div class="q1">And lead us not into temptation. #11:4 Some manuscripts temptation, but deliver us from the evil one &#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p">5Then Jesus said to them, &#8220;Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, &#8216;Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; 6a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.&#8217; 7And suppose the one inside answers, &#8216;Don&#8217;t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can&#8217;t get up and give you anything.&#8217; 8I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity#11:8 Or yet to preserve his good name he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.</div><div class="p">9 &#8220;So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.</div><div class="p">11 &#8220;Which of you fathers, if your son asks for #11:11 Some manuscripts for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="p">1Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God&#8217;s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God&#8212;this is your true and proper worship. 2Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God&#8217;s will is&#8212;his good, pleasing and perfect will.</div><div class="s1">Humble Service in the Body of Christ</div><div class="p">3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. 4For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your#12:6 Or the faith; 7if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead,#12:8 Or to provide for others do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.</div>
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