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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkJHN">
      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="JHN.11">
         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Lazarus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">(This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So the sisters sent word to Jesus, &#8220;Lord, the one you love is sick.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When he heard this, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God&#8217;s glory so that God&#8217;s Son may be glorified through it.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and then he said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us go back to Judea.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But Rabbi,&#8221; they said, &#8220;a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world&#8217;s light.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After he had said this, he went on to tell them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His disciples replied, &#8220;Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So then he told them plainly, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Lazarus is dead,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Thomas (also known as Didymus</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:16 </span><span class="fq">Thomas </span><span class="ft">(Aramaic) and </span><span class="fqa">Didymus </span><span class="ft">(Greek) both mean </span><span class="fqa">twin.</span></span></span><span class="content">) said to the rest of the disciples, &#8220;Let us also go, that we may die with him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now Bethany was less than two miles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:18 </span><span class="ft">Or about 3 kilometers</span></span></span><span class="content"> from Jerusalem, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord,&#8221; Martha said to Jesus, &#8220;if you had been here, my brother would not have died. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Your brother will rise again.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.11.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Martha answered, &#8220;I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jesus said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, Lord,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. &#8220;The Teacher is here,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and is asking for you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.11.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, &#8220;Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.11.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Where have you laid him?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.11.34"><span class="content">&#8220;Come and see, Lord,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.11.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Jesus wept.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.11.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Then the Jews said, &#8220;See how he loved him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.11.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.11.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But some of them said, &#8220;Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.11.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.11.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.11.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Take away the stone,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.11.39"><span class="content">&#8220;But, Lord,&#8221; said Martha, the sister of the dead man, &#8220;by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.11.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.11.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.11.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.11.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Father, I thank you that you have heard me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.11.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.11.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JHN.11.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Lazarus, come out!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.11.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.11.44"><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Take off the grave clothes and let him go.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plot to Kill Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JHN.11.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JHN.11.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JHN.11.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.11.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JHN.11.47"><span class="content">&#8220;What are we accomplishing?&#8221; they asked. &#8220;Here is this man performing many signs. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.11.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JHN.11.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JHN.11.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, &#8220;You know nothing at all! </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JHN.11.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JHN.11.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JHN.11.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JHN.11.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JHN.11.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">So from that day on they plotted to take his life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JHN.11.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="JHN.11.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea. Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="JHN.11.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JHN.11.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover. </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="JHN.11.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, &#8220;What do you think? Isn&#8217;t he coming to the festival at all?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="JHN.11.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkEXO">
      <div class="chapter ch29" data-usfm="EXO.29">
         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Consecration of the Priests</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Put them in a basket and present them along with the bull and the two rams. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Take the garments and dress Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breastpiece. Fasten the ephod on him by its skillfully woven waistband. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Put the turban on his head and attach the sacred emblem to the turban. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Bring his sons and dress them in tunics </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and fasten caps on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">on them</span></span></span><span class="content"> The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.29.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Then you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Bring the bull to the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Slaughter it in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Take some of the bull&#8217;s blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then take all the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But burn the bull&#8217;s flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 36</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Slaughter it and take the blood and splash it against the sides of the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Cut the ram into pieces and wash the internal organs and the legs, putting them with the head and the other pieces. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then splash blood against the sides of the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And take some blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This is the ram for the ordination.) </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">From the basket of bread made without yeast, which is before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, take one round loaf, one thick loaf with olive oil mixed in, and one thin loaf. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and have them wave them before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as a wave offering. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.29.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron&#8217;s ordination, wave it before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as a wave offering, and it will be your share.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.29.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.29.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons: the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.29.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">This is always to be the perpetual share from the Israelites for Aaron and his sons. It is the contribution the Israelites are to make to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> from their fellowship offerings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.29.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.29.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Aaron&#8217;s sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.29.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.29.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.29.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meat in a sacred place. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.29.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">At the entrance to the tent of meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.29.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no one else may eat them, because they are sacred. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.29.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And if any of the meat of the ordination ram or any bread is left over till morning, burn it up. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.29.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EXO.29.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EXO.29.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="EXO.29.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="EXO.29.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="EXO.29.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="EXO.29.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="EXO.29.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:40 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 3 1/2 pounds or about 1.6 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:40 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 1 quart or about 1 liter</span></span></span><span class="content"> of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="EXO.29.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning&#8212;a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="EXO.29.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="EXO.29.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">&#8220;For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. There I will meet you and speak to you; </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="EXO.29.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="EXO.29.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="EXO.29.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">&#8220;So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="EXO.29.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="EXO.29.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">They will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkROM">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="ROM.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">who according to the flesh</span></span></span><span class="content"> was a descendant of David, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">was declared with power to be the Son of God</span></span></span><span class="content"> by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that is</span></span></span><span class="content"> faith for his name&#8217;s sake. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.1.7"><span class="content">Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Longing to Visit Rome</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God&#8217;s will the way may be opened for me to come to you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other&#8217;s faith. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:13 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 7:1, 4; 8:12, 29; 10:1; 11:25; 12:1; 15:14, 30; 16:14, 17.</span></span></span><span class="content"> that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed&#8212;a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is from faith to faith</span></span></span><span class="content"> just as it is written: &#8220;The righteous will live by faith.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">Hab. 2:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For since the creation of the world God&#8217;s invisible qualities&#8212;his eternal power and divine nature&#8212;have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator&#8212;who is forever praised. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Although they know God&#8217;s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk1TI">
      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="1TI.6">
         <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TI.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God&#8217;s name and our teaching may not be slandered. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and benefit from the service</span></span></span><span class="content"> of their slaves.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">False Teachers and the Love of Money</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.6.2"><span class="content">These are the things you are to teach and insist on. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TI.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TI.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TI.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TI.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TI.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But godliness with contentment is great gain. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TI.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TI.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TI.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Charge to Timothy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TI.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TI.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TI.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TI.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TI.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">which God will bring about in his own time&#8212;God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TI.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TI.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1TI.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1TI.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1TI.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1TI.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">which some have professed and in so doing have departed from the faith.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1TI.6.21"><span class="content">Grace be with you all.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJOB">
      <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="JOB.17">
         <div class="label">17</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My spirit is broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">my days are cut short,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">the grave awaits me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Surely mockers surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">my eyes must dwell on their hostility.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">Who else will put up security for me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You have closed their minds to understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">therefore you will not let them triumph.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If anyone denounces their friends for reward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">the eyes of their children will fail.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;God has made me a byword to everyone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">a man in whose face people spit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My eyes have grown dim with grief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">my whole frame is but a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The upright are appalled at this;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">and those with clean hands will grow stronger.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;But come on, all of you, try again!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">I will not find a wise man among you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My days have passed, my plans are shattered.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">Yet the desires of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">turn night into day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">in the face of the darkness light is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If the only home I hope for is the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if I say to corruption, &#8216;You are my father,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">and to the worm, &#8216;My mother&#8217; or &#8216;My sister,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">where then is my hope&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">who can see any hope for me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Will it go down to the gates of death?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.17.16"><span class="content">Will we descend together into the dust?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch79" data-usfm="PSA.79">
         <div class="label">79</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 79</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">they have defiled your holy temple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They have left the dead bodies of your servants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">as food for the birds of the sky,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They have poured out blood like water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">all around Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">and there is no one to bury the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="content">of scorn and derision to those around us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? Will you be angry forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">How long will your jealousy burn like fire?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Pour out your wrath on the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">that do not acknowledge you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">on the kingdoms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">that do not call on your name;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">for they have devoured Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="content">and devastated his homeland.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">may your mercy come quickly to meet us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">for we are in desperate need.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Help us, God our Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">for the glory of your name;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">deliver us and forgive our sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">for your name&#8217;s sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Why should the nations say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">Before our eyes, make known among the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May the groans of the prisoners come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="content">with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="content">the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">will praise you forever;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">from generation to generation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">we will proclaim your praise.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkPRO">
      <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="PRO.17">
         <div class="label">17</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Better a dry crust with peace and quiet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.17.1"><span class="content">than a house full of feasting, with strife.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.17.2"><span class="content">and will share the inheritance as one of the family.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.17.3"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> tests the heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">A wicked person listens to deceitful lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.17.4"><span class="content">a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.17.5"><span class="content">whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Children&#8217;s children are a crown to the aged,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.17.6"><span class="content">and parents are the pride of their children.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.17.7"><span class="content">how much worse lying lips to a ruler!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.17.8"><span class="content">they think success will come at every turn.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.17.9"><span class="content">but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">A rebuke impresses a discerning person</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.17.10"><span class="content">more than a hundred lashes a fool.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Evildoers foster rebellion against God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.17.11"><span class="content">the messenger of death will be sent against them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.17.12"><span class="content">than a fool bent on folly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Evil will never leave the house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.17.13"><span class="content">of one who pays back evil for good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.17.14"><span class="content">so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.17.15"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests them both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.17.16"><span class="content">when they are not able to understand it?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A friend loves at all times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.17.17"><span class="content">and a brother is born for a time of adversity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.17.18"><span class="content">and puts up security for a neighbor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.17.19"><span class="content">whoever builds a high gate invites destruction.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.17.20"><span class="content">one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.17.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To have a fool for a child brings grief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.17.21"><span class="content">there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">A cheerful heart is good medicine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.17.22"><span class="content">but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.17.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The wicked accept bribes in secret</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.17.23"><span class="content">to pervert the course of justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.17.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A discerning person keeps wisdom in view,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.17.24"><span class="content">but a fool&#8217;s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">A foolish son brings grief to his father</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.17.25"><span class="content">and bitterness to the mother who bore him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">If imposing a fine on the innocent is not good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.17.26"><span class="content">surely to flog honest officials is not right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.17.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.17.27"><span class="content">and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.17.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.17.28"><span class="content">and discerning if they hold their tongues.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David Destroys the Amalekites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">David&#8217;s two wives had been captured&#8212;Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelek, &#8220;Bring me the ephod.&#8221; Abiathar brought it to him, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and David inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.30.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Pursue them,&#8221; he answered. &#8220;You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">David asked him, &#8220;Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.30.13"><span class="content">He said, &#8220;I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, some territory belonging to Judah and the Negev of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">David asked him, &#8220;Can you lead me down to this raiding party?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.30.15"><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, &#8220;This is David&#8217;s plunder.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But all the evil men and troublemakers among David&#8217;s followers said, &#8220;Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">David replied, &#8220;No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">David made this a statute and ordinance for Israel from that day to this.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When David reached Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, who were his friends, saying, &#8220;Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s enemies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">David sent it to those who were in Bethel, Ramoth Negev and Jattir; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">to those in Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">and Rakal; to those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites and the Kenites; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">to those in Hormah, Bor Ashan, Athak </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and Hebron; and to those in all the other places where he and his men had roamed.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="JER.13">
         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Linen Belt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I bought a belt, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> directed, and put it around my waist.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me a second time: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:4 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">to the Euphrates</span><span class="ft">; similarly in verses 5-7</span></span></span><span class="content"> and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So I went and hid it at Perath, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many days later the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt&#8212;completely useless! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For as a belt is bound around the waist, so I bound all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah to me,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wineskins</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to them: &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.&#8217; And if they say to you, &#8216;Don&#8217;t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">then tell them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David&#8217;s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Threat of Captivity</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hear and pay attention,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">do not be arrogant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Give glory to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">before he brings the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">before your feet stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">on the darkening hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">You hope for light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">but he will turn it to utter darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">and change it to deep gloom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If you do not listen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">I will weep in secret</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">because of your pride;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">my eyes will weep bitterly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">overflowing with tears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s flock will be taken captive.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Say to the king and to the queen mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Come down from your thrones,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">for your glorious crowns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">will fall from your heads.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The cities in the Negev will be shut up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">and there will be no one to open them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">All Judah will be carried into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">carried completely away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Look up and see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">those who are coming from the north.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">Where is the flock that was entrusted to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">the sheep of which you boasted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What will you say when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sets over you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">those you cultivated as your special allies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">Will not pain grip you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">like that of a woman in labor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And if you ask yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Why has this happened to me?&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">it is because of your many sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">that your skirts have been torn off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">and your body mistreated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Can an Ethiopian</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Cushite </span><span class="ft">(probably a person from the upper Nile region)</span></span></span><span class="content"> change his skin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">or a leopard its spots?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">Neither can you do good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">who are accustomed to doing evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will scatter you like chaff</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="content">driven by the desert wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">This is your lot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">the portion I have decreed for you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">&#8220;because you have forgotten me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">and trusted in false gods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I will pull up your skirts over your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="content">that your shame may be seen&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">your adulteries and lustful neighings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">your shameless prostitution!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">I have seen your detestable acts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">on the hills and in the fields.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">Woe to you, Jerusalem!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">How long will you be unclean?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, &#8220;My brothers, I have fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience to this day.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">At this the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Paul said to him, &#8220;God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who were standing near Paul said, &#8220;How dare you insult God&#8217;s high priest!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Paul replied, &#8220;Brothers, I did not realize that he was the high priest; for it is written: &#8216;Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:5 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 22:28</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, &#8220;My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">(The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees stood up and argued vigorously. &#8220;We find nothing wrong with this man,&#8221; they said. &#8220;What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them. He ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force and bring him into the barracks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plot to Kill Paul</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The next morning some Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">More than forty men were involved in this plot. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, &#8220;We have taken a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him before you on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about his case. We are ready to kill him before he gets here.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But when the son of Paul&#8217;s sister heard of this plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, &#8220;Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So he took him to the commander.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.23.18"><span class="content">The centurion said, &#8220;Paul, the prisoner, sent for me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside and asked, &#8220;What is it you want to tell me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He said: &#8220;Some Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul before the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about him. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t give in to them, because more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are ready now, waiting for your consent to their request.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The commander dismissed the young man with this warning: &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell anyone that you have reported this to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Transferred to Caesarea</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then he called two of his centurions and ordered them, &#8220;Get ready a detachment of two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:23 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Greek for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go to Caesarea at nine tonight. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Provide horses for Paul so that he may be taken safely to Governor Felix.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.23.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He wrote a letter as follows:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Claudius Lysias,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="content">To His Excellency, Governor Felix:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="content">Greetings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, but I came with my troops and rescued him, for I had learned that he is a Roman citizen. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I wanted to know why they were accusing him, so I brought him to their Sanhedrin. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I found that the accusation had to do with questions about their law, but there was no charge against him that deserved death or imprisonment. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When I was informed of a plot to be carried out against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also ordered his accusers to present to you their case against him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul with them during the night and brought him as far as Antipatris. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The next day they let the cavalry go on with him, while they returned to the barracks. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When the cavalry arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and handed Paul over to him. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The governor read the letter and asked what province he was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">he said, &#8220;I will hear your case when your accusers get here.&#8221; Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod&#8217;s palace.</span></span></div>
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