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 <div class="label">37</div><div class="s1">Joseph&#8217;s Dreams</div><div class="p"> 1Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 2This is the account of Jacob&#8217;s family line.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p">Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father&#8217;s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.</div><div class="p"> 3Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate#37:3 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain; also in verses 23 and 32. robe for him. 4When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.</div><div class="p"> 5Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6He said to them, &#8220;Listen to this dream I had: 7We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 8His brothers said to him, &#8220;Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?&#8221; And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.</div><div class="p"> 9Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. &#8220;Listen,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 10When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, &#8220;What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?&#8221; 11His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.</div><div class="s1">Joseph Sold by His Brothers</div><div class="p"> 12Now his brothers had gone to graze their father&#8217;s flocks near Shechem, 13and Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.&#8221;</div><div class="p">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; he replied.</div><div class="p"> 14So he said to him, &#8220;Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.&#8221; Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.</div><div class="p">When Joseph arrived at Shechem, 15a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, &#8220;What are you looking for?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 16He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 17&#8220;They have moved on from here,&#8221; the man answered. &#8220;I heard them say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go to Dothan.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p">So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. 18But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.</div><div class="p"> 19&#8220;Here comes that dreamer!&#8221; they said to each other. 20&#8220;Come now, let&#8217;s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we&#8217;ll see what comes of his dreams.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 21When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. &#8220;Let&#8217;s not take his life,&#8221; he said. 22&#8220;Don&#8217;t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don&#8217;t lay a hand on him.&#8221; Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.</div><div class="p"> 23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe&#8212;the ornate robe he was wearing&#8212; 24and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.</div><div class="p"> 25As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.</div><div class="p"> 26Judah said to his brothers, &#8220;What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 27Come, let&#8217;s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.&#8221; His brothers agreed.</div><div class="p"> 28So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels#37:28 That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.</div><div class="p"> 29When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes. 30He went back to his brothers and said, &#8220;The boy isn&#8217;t there! Where can I turn now?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 31Then they got Joseph&#8217;s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. 32They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, &#8220;We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son&#8217;s robe.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 33He recognized it and said, &#8220;It is my son&#8217;s robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 34Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days. 35All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. &#8220;No,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.&#8221; So his father wept for him.</div><div class="p"> 36Meanwhile, the Midianites#37:36 Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also verse 28); Masoretic Text Medanites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh&#8217;s officials, the captain of the guard.</div>
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 <div class="label">39</div><div class="cl">Psalm 39#In Hebrew texts 39:1-13 is numbered 39:2-14.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.</div><div class="q1"> 1I said, &#8220;I will watch my ways</div><div class="q2">and keep my tongue from sin;</div><div class="q1">I will put a muzzle on my mouth</div><div class="q2">while in the presence of the wicked.&#8221;</div><div class="q1"> 2So I remained utterly silent,</div><div class="q2">not even saying anything good.</div><div class="q1">But my anguish increased;</div><div class="q2"> 3my heart grew hot within me.</div><div class="q1">While I meditated, the fire burned;</div><div class="q2">then I spoke with my tongue:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4&#8220;Show me, Lord, my life&#8217;s end</div><div class="q2">and the number of my days;</div><div class="q2">let me know how fleeting my life is.</div><div class="q1"> 5You have made my days a mere handbreadth;</div><div class="q2">the span of my years is as nothing before you.</div><div class="q1">Everyone is but a breath,</div><div class="q2">even those who seem secure.#39:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6&#8220;Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom;</div><div class="q2">in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth</div><div class="q2">without knowing whose it will finally be.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7&#8220;But now, Lord, what do I look for?</div><div class="q2">My hope is in you.</div><div class="q1"> 8Save me from all my transgressions;</div><div class="q2">do not make me the scorn of fools.</div><div class="q1"> 9I was silent; I would not open my mouth,</div><div class="q2">for you are the one who has done this.</div><div class="q1"> 10Remove your scourge from me;</div><div class="q2">I am overcome by the blow of your hand.</div><div class="q1"> 11When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin,</div><div class="q2">you consume their wealth like a moth&#8212;</div><div class="q2">surely everyone is but a breath.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 12&#8220;Hear my prayer, Lord,</div><div class="q2">listen to my cry for help;</div><div class="q2">do not be deaf to my weeping.</div><div class="q1">I dwell with you as a foreigner,</div><div class="q2">a stranger, as all my ancestors were.</div><div class="q1"> 13Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again</div><div class="q2">before I depart and am no more.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">40</div><div class="cl">Psalm 40#In Hebrew texts 40:1-17 is numbered 40:2-18.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</div><div class="q1"> 1I waited patiently for the Lord;</div><div class="q2">he turned to me and heard my cry.</div><div class="q1"> 2He lifted me out of the slimy pit,</div><div class="q2">out of the mud and mire;</div><div class="q1">he set my feet on a rock</div><div class="q2">and gave me a firm place to stand.</div><div class="q1"> 3He put a new song in my mouth,</div><div class="q2">a hymn of praise to our God.</div><div class="q1">Many will see and fear the Lord</div><div class="q2">and put their trust in him.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4Blessed is the one</div><div class="q2">who trusts in the Lord,</div><div class="q1">who does not look to the proud,</div><div class="q2">to those who turn aside to false gods.#40:4 Or to lies</div><div class="q1"> 5Many, Lord my God,</div><div class="q2">are the wonders you have done,</div><div class="q2">the things you planned for us.</div><div class="q1">None can compare with you;</div><div class="q2">were I to speak and tell of your deeds,</div><div class="q2">they would be too many to declare.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6Sacrifice and offering you did not desire&#8212;</div><div class="q2">but my ears you have opened#40:6 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts but a body you have prepared for me&#8212;</div><div class="q2">burnt offerings and sin offerings#40:6 Or purification offerings you did not require.</div><div class="q1"> 7Then I said, &#8220;Here I am, I have come&#8212;</div><div class="q2">it is written about me in the scroll.#40:7 Or come / with the scroll written for me</div><div class="q1"> 8I desire to do your will, my God;</div><div class="q2">your law is within my heart.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 9I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly;</div><div class="q2">I do not seal my lips, Lord,</div><div class="q2">as you know.</div><div class="q1"> 10I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;</div><div class="q2">I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help.</div><div class="q1">I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness</div><div class="q2">from the great assembly.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord;</div><div class="q2">may your love and faithfulness always protect me.</div><div class="q1"> 12For troubles without number surround me;</div><div class="q2">my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.</div><div class="q1">They are more than the hairs of my head,</div><div class="q2">and my heart fails within me.</div><div class="q1"> 13Be pleased to save me, Lord;</div><div class="q2">come quickly, Lord, to help me.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 14May all who want to take my life</div><div class="q2">be put to shame and confusion;</div><div class="q1">may all who desire my ruin</div><div class="q2">be turned back in disgrace.</div><div class="q1"> 15May those who say to me, &#8220;Aha! Aha!&#8221;</div><div class="q2">be appalled at their own shame.</div><div class="q1"> 16But may all who seek you</div><div class="q2">rejoice and be glad in you;</div><div class="q1">may those who long for your saving help always say,</div><div class="q2">&#8220;The Lord is great!&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 17But as for me, I am poor and needy;</div><div class="q2">may the Lord think of me.</div><div class="q1">You are my help and my deliverer;</div><div class="q2">you are my God, do not delay.</div>
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 <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1">The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times</div><div class="p"> 1Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. 2&#8220;Do you see all these things?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 3As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. &#8220;Tell us,&#8221; they said, &#8220;when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 4Jesus answered: &#8220;Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, &#8216;I am the Messiah,&#8217; and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.</div><div class="p"> 9 &#8220;Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.</div><div class="p"> 15 &#8220;So when you see standing in the holy place &#8216;the abomination that causes desolation,&#8217; # 24:15 
 Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11 spoken of through the prophet Daniel&#8212;let the reader understand&#8212; 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. 18Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. 19How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now&#8212;and never to be equaled again.</div><div class="p"> 22 &#8220;If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. 23At that time if anyone says to you, &#8216;Look, here is the Messiah!&#8217; or, &#8216;There he is!&#8217; do not believe it. 24For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25See, I have told you ahead of time.</div><div class="p"> 26 &#8220;So if anyone tells you, &#8216;There he is, out in the wilderness,&#8217; do not go out; or, &#8216;Here he is, in the inner rooms,&#8217; do not believe it. 27For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.</div><div class="p"> 29 &#8220;Immediately after the distress of those days</div><div class="q1"> &#8220;&#8198;&#8216;the sun will be darkened,</div><div class="q2"> and the moon will not give its light;</div><div class="q1"> the stars will fall from the sky,</div><div class="q2"> and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.&#8217; # 24:29 
 Isaiah 13:10; 34:4 </div><div class="p"> 30 &#8220;Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth # 24:30 Or the tribes of the land will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.#24:30 See Daniel 7:13-14. 31And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.</div><div class="p"> 32 &#8220;Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it#24:33 Or he is near, right at the door. 34Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.</div><div class="s1">The Day and Hour Unknown</div><div class="p"> 36 &#8220;But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, # 24:36 Some manuscripts do not have nor the Son. but only the Father. 37As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.</div><div class="p"> 42 &#8220;Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.</div><div class="p"> 45 &#8220;Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, &#8216;My master is staying away a long time,&#8217; 49and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</div>
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