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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Laws of Justice and Mercy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you come across your enemy&#8217;s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sabbath Laws</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Three Annual Festivals</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.23.15"><span class="content">&#8220;No one is to appear before me empty-handed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.23.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.23.18"><span class="content">&#8220;The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.23.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not cook a young goat in its mother&#8217;s milk.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Angel to Prepare the Way</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will establish your borders from the Red Sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:31 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the Mediterranean Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:31 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">to the Sea of the Philistines</span></span></span><span class="content"> and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="EXO.24">
         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Covenant Confirmed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Come up to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">but Moses alone is to approach the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When Moses went and told the people all the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s words and laws, they responded with one voice, &#8220;Everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said we will do.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Moses then wrote down everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.24.4"><span class="content">He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, &#8220;We will do everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said; we will obey.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, &#8220;This is the blood of the covenant that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has made with you in accordance with all these words.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He said to the elders, &#8220;Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone involved in a dispute can go to them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to Moses from within the cloud. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">To the Israelites the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Offerings for the Tabernacle</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:5 </span><span class="ft">Possibly the hides of large aquatic mammals</span></span></span><span class="content">; acacia wood; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ark</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have them make an ark</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, a chest</span></span></span><span class="content"> of acacia wood&#8212;two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 feet long and 2 1/4 feet wide and high or about 1.1 meters long and 68 centimeters wide and high; similarly in verse 17</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.25.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Make an atonement cover of pure gold&#8212;two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Table</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.25.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Make a table of acacia wood&#8212;two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 feet long, 1 1/2 feet wide and 2 1/4 feet high or about 90 centimeters long, 45 centimeters wide and 68 centimeters high</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Also make around it a rim a handbreadth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:25 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 inches or about 7.5 centimeters</span></span></span><span class="content"> wide and put a gold molding on the rim. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.25.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.25.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Lampstand</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.25.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.25.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.25.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand&#8212;three on one side and three on the other. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.25.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.25.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EXO.25.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair&#8212;six branches in all. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EXO.25.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The buds and branches shall all be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EXO.25.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="EXO.25.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="EXO.25.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="EXO.25.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">A talent</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:39 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="EXO.25.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 16</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">miktam</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Keep me safe, my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.16.1"><span class="content">for in you I take refuge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I say to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;You are my Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.16.2"><span class="content">apart from you I have no good thing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I say of the holy people who are in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.16.3"><span class="content">&#8220;They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.16.4"><span class="content">I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.16.4"><span class="content">or take up their names on my lips.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you alone are my portion and my cup;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.16.5"><span class="content">you make my lot secure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.16.6"><span class="content">surely I have a delightful inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who counsels me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.16.7"><span class="content">even at night my heart instructs me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I keep my eyes always on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.16.8"><span class="content">With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.16.9"><span class="content">my body also will rest secure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.16.10"><span class="content">nor will you let your faithful</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">holy</span></span></span><span class="content"> one see decay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You make known to me the path of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.16.11"><span class="content">you will fill me with joy in your presence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.16.11"><span class="content">with eternal pleasures at your right hand.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 17</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my plea is just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">listen to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">Hear my prayer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">it does not rise from deceitful lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let my vindication come from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">may your eyes see what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though you probe my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">though you examine me at night and test me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">you will find that I have planned no evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">my mouth has not transgressed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though people tried to bribe me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">I have kept myself from the ways of the violent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">through what your lips have commanded.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My steps have held to your paths;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">my feet have not stumbled.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Show me the wonders of your great love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">you who save by your right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">those who take refuge in you from their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep me as the apple of your eye;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">hide me in the shadow of your wings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">from the wicked who are out to destroy me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">from my mortal enemies who surround me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They close up their callous hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">and their mouths speak with arrogance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They have tracked me down, they now surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They are like a lion hungry for prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">like a fierce lion crouching in cover.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Rise up, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, confront them, bring them down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">with your sword rescue me from the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By your hand save me from such people, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">from those of this world whose reward is in this life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">may their children gorge themselves on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">and may there be leftovers for their little ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="content">when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.</span></span></div>
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