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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh&#8217;s court, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8216;My father made me swear an oath and said, &#8220;I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.&#8221; Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said, &#8220;Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh&#8217;s officials accompanied him&#8212;the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">besides all the members of Joseph&#8217;s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father&#8217;s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content"> also went up with him. It was a very large company.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, &#8220;The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.&#8221; That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:11 </span><span class="fq">Abel Mizraim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">mourning </span><span class="fqa">of the </span><span class="fq">Egyptians</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Jacob&#8217;s sons did as he had commanded them: </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph Reassures His Brothers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Joseph&#8217;s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, &#8220;What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So they sent word to Joseph, saying, &#8220;Your father left these instructions before he died: </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.&#8217; Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.&#8221; When their message came to him, Joseph wept.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. &#8220;We are your slaves,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But Joseph said to them, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So then, don&#8217;t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.&#8221; And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Joseph</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father&#8217;s family. He lived a hundred and ten years </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and saw the third generation of Ephraim&#8217;s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph&#8217;s knees.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, were counted as his</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.50.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.50.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.50.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, &#8220;God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.50.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.50.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="MAT.17.14+MAT.17.15+MAT.17.16+MAT.17.17+MAT.17.18+MAT.17.19+MAT.17.20+MAT.17.21+MAT.17.22+MAT.17.23+MAT.17.24+MAT.17.25+MAT.17.26+MAT.17.27">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord, have mercy on my son,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You unbelieving and perverse generation,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, &#8220;Why couldn&#8217;t we drive it out?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, &#8216;Move from here to there,&#8217; and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.17.21"><span class="label">[21]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:21 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Mark 9:29.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And the disciples were filled with grief.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Temple Tax</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.17.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t your teacher pay the temple tax?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, he does,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="content">When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think, Simon?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes&#8212;from their own children or from others?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;From others,&#8221; Peter answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.17.26"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the children are exempt,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said to him. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="MAT.18.1+MAT.18.2+MAT.18.3+MAT.18.4+MAT.18.5+MAT.18.6+MAT.18.7+MAT.18.8+MAT.18.9">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, &#8220;Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And he said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Causing to Stumble</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone causes one of these little ones&#8212;those who believe in me&#8212;to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 15</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who may dwell in your sacred tent?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"><span class="content">Who may live on your holy mountain?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The one whose walk is blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="content">who does what is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="content">who speaks the truth from their heart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">whose tongue utters no slander,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="content">who does no wrong to a neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="content">and casts no slur on others;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who despises a vile person</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">but honors those who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">who keeps an oath even when it hurts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">and does not change their mind;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who lends money to the poor without interest;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="content">who does not accept a bribe against the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="content">Whoever does these things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="content">will never be shaken.</span></span></div>
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