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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;the Lord of all the earth&#8212;set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.3.13"></span></div>
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            <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Sentenced to Be Crucified</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and went up to him again and again, saying, &#8220;Hail, king of the Jews!&#8221; And they slapped him in the face.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.19.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, &#8220;Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, &#8220;Here is the man!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.19.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, &#8220;Crucify! Crucify!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.19.6"><span class="content">But Pilate answered, &#8220;You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.19.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Jewish leaders insisted, &#8220;We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.19.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and he went back inside the palace. &#8220;Where do you come from?&#8221; he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do you refuse to speak to me?&#8221; Pilate said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.19.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.19.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, &#8220;If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.19.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge&#8217;s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.19.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Here is your king,&#8221; Pilate said to the Jews.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.19.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But they shouted, &#8220;Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.19.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Shall I crucify your king?&#8221; Pilate asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.19.15"><span class="content">&#8220;We have no king but Caesar,&#8221; the chief priests answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.19.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Crucifixion of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.19.16"><span class="content">So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">There they crucified him, and with him two others&#8212;one on each side and Jesus in the middle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.19.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, &#8220;Do not write &#8216;The King of the Jews,&#8217; but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.19.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Pilate answered, &#8220;What I have written, I have written.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.19.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.19.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let&#8217;s not tear it,&#8221; they said to one another. &#8220;Let&#8217;s decide by lot who will get it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="content">This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="content">&#8220;They divided my clothes among them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="content">and cast lots for my garment.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:24 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.22.18">Psalm 22:18</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"><span class="content">So this is what the soldiers did.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.19.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother&#8217;s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woman,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">Woman </span><span class="ft">does not denote any disrespect.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">here is your son,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and to the disciple, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Here is your mother.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.19.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am thirsty.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus&#8217; lips. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When he had received the drink, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is finished.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.19.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus&#8217; side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: &#8220;Not one of his bones will be broken,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:36 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="EXO.12.46">Exodus 12:46</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="NUM.9.12">Num. 9:12</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="PSA.34.20">Psalm 34:20</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">and, as another scripture says, &#8220;They will look on the one they have pierced.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:37 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ZEC.12.10">Zech. 12:10</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Burial of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.19.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate&#8217;s permission, he came and took the body away. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.19.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:39 </span><span class="ft">Or about 34 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JHN.19.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Taking Jesus&#8217; body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JHN.19.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JHN.19.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joshua Installed as Leader</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the death of Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses&#8217; aide: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them&#8212;to the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates&#8212;all the Hittite country&#8212;to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.1.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will be with you wherever you go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.1.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Joshua ordered the officers of the people: </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go through the camp and tell the people, &#8216;Get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you for your own.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.1.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember the command that Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave you after he said, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will give you rest by giving you this land.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Your wives, your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, ready for battle, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites. You are to help them </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.1.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they answered Joshua, &#8220;Whatever you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Just as we fully obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. Only may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God be with you as he was with Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whoever rebels against your word and does not obey it, whatever you may command them, will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Rahab and the Spies</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. &#8220;Go, look over the land,&#8221; he said, &#8220;especially Jericho.&#8221; So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.2.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The king of Jericho was told, &#8220;Look, some of the Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: &#8220;Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.2.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, &#8220;Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don&#8217;t know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">(But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.) </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So the men set out in pursuit of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the gate was shut.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.2.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and said to them, &#8220;I know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">We have heard how the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> dried up the water of the Red Sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone&#8217;s courage failed because of you, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.2.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, please swear to me by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them&#8212;and that you will save us from death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.2.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Our lives for your lives!&#8221; the men assured her. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives us the land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.2.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">She said to them, &#8220;Go to the hills so the pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there three days until they return, and then go on your way.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.2.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now the men had said to her, &#8220;This oath you made us swear will not be binding on us </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If any of them go outside your house into the street, their blood will be on their own heads; we will not be responsible. As for those who are in the house with you, their blood will be on our head if a hand is laid on them. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But if you tell what we are doing, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.2.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Agreed,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;Let it be as you say.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.2.21"><span class="content">So she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.2.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When they left, they went into the hills and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had searched all along the road and returned without finding them. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then the two men started back. They went down out of the hills, forded the river and came to Joshua son of Nun and told him everything that had happened to them. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">They said to Joshua, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has surely given the whole land into our hands; all the people are melting in fear because of us.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">77</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 77</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 77:1-20 is numbered 77:2-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.77.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I cried out to God for help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.77.1"><span class="content">I cried out to God to hear me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.77.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When I was in distress, I sought the Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="content">at night I stretched out untiring hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="content">and I would not be comforted.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.77.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I remembered you, God, and I groaned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.77.3"><span class="content">I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">77:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 9 and 15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.77.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.77.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You kept my eyes from closing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.77.4"><span class="content">I was too troubled to speak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.77.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.77.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I thought about the former days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.77.5"><span class="content">the years of long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.77.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I remembered my songs in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"><span class="content">My heart meditated and my spirit asked:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.77.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will the Lord reject forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.77.7"><span class="content">Will he never show his favor again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.77.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.77.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Has his unfailing love vanished forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.77.8"><span class="content">Has his promise failed for all time?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.77.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Has God forgotten to be merciful?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"><span class="content">Has he in anger withheld his compassion?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.77.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I thought, &#8220;To this I will appeal:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.77.10"><span class="content">the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.77.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.77.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will remember the deeds of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.77.11"><span class="content">yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.77.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will consider all your works</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"><span class="content">and meditate on all your mighty deeds.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.77.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Your ways, God, are holy.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.77.13"><span class="content">What god is as great as our God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.77.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.77.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You are the God who performs miracles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.77.14"><span class="content">you display your power among the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.77.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">With your mighty arm you redeemed your people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"><span class="content">the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The waters saw you, God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="content">the waters saw you and writhed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="content">the very depths were convulsed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The clouds poured down water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="content">the heavens resounded with thunder;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="content">your arrows flashed back and forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="content">your lightning lit up the world;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="content">the earth trembled and quaked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your path led through the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="content">your way through the mighty waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="content">though your footprints were not seen.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.77.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You led your people like a flock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.77.20"><span class="content">by the hand of Moses and Aaron.</span></span></div>
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