Horizon Church June Bible Reading Plan - on Purpose: Nehemiah & Esther

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A Teen's Guide To: Learning to Be Fearless Through Jesus

The Bible Recap - Proverbs

From Lament to Hope: Wellbeing and Happiness in the Psalms

Uncertain Times

When Dawn Breaks

Surprising Answers You May Not Hear in Church!

Spiritual Resistance: Why Progress Gets Harder When You're on the Right Path

In Repair

New International Version

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">By the first day of the first month of Noah&#8217;s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then God said to Noah, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you&#8212;the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground&#8212;so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons&#8217; wives. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds&#8212;everything that moves on land&#8212;came out of the ark, one kind after another.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Noah built an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: &#8220;Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">humans, for</span></span></span><span class="content"> every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;As long as the earth endures,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.8.22"><span class="content">seedtime and harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.8.22"><span class="content">cold and heat,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.8.22"><span class="content">summer and winter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.8.22"><span class="content">day and night</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.8.22"><span class="content">will never cease.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever sheds human blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="content">by humans shall their blood be shed;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="content">for in the image of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="content">has God made mankind.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and with every living creature that was with you&#8212;the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you&#8212;every living creature on earth. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So God said to Noah, &#8220;This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sons of Noah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">soil, was the first</span></span></span><span class="content"> to plant a vineyard. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father&#8217;s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">he said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed be Canaan!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">The lowest of slaves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">will he be to his brothers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He also said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Shem!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="content">May Canaan be the slave of Shem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">May God extend Japheth&#8217;s</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:27 </span><span class="fq">Japheth </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">extend</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> territory;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="content">may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="content">and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After the flood Noah lived 350 years. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah&#8217;s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Japhethites</span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The sons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:2 </span><span class="fq">Sons </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fqa">descendants </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">successors </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">nations</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Japheth:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.10.2"><span class="content">Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The sons of Gomer:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.10.3"><span class="content">Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The sons of Javan:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.10.4"><span class="content">Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:4 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:7); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Dodanites</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Hamites</span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The sons of Ham:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.10.6"><span class="content">Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The sons of Cush:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="content">Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="content">The sons of Raamah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="content">Sheba and Dedan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Cush was the father</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:8 </span><span class="fq">Father </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fqa">ancestor </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">predecessor </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">founder; </span><span class="ft">also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He was a mighty hunter before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; that is why it is said, &#8220;Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Uruk and Akkad&#8212;all of them in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Shinar.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, Babylonia</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Nineveh with its city squares</span></span></span><span class="content"> Calah </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah&#8212;which is the great city.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Egypt was the father of</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.10.13"><span class="content">the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Canaan was the father of</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.10.15"><span class="content">Sidon his firstborn,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of the Sidonians, the foremost</span></span></span><span class="content"> and of the Hittites, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.10.18"><span class="content">Later the Canaanite clans scattered </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Semites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Shem, the older brother of</span></span></span><span class="content"> Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The sons of Shem:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.10.22"><span class="content">Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The sons of Aram:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.10.23"><span class="content">Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:23 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:17; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Mash.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.10.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Arphaxad was the father of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:24 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of</span></span></span><span class="content"> Shelah,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.10.24"><span class="content">and Shelah the father of Eber.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.10.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Two sons were born to Eber:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.10.25"><span class="content">One was named Peleg,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:25 </span><span class="fq">Peleg </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">division.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.10.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Joktan was the father of</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.10.26"><span class="content">Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Obal, Abimael, Sheba, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.10.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.10.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.10.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">These are the clans of Noah&#8217;s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.4.15"><span class="content">the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.4.15"><span class="content">Galilee of the Gentiles&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the people living in darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="content">have seen a great light;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="content">on those living in the land of the shadow of death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="content">a light has dawned.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:16 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 9:1,2</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">From that time on Jesus began to preach, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Calls His First Disciples</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come, follow me,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;and I will send you out to fish for people.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">At once they left their nets and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals the Sick</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:25 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Ten Cities</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Answer me when I call to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"><span class="content">my righteous God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"><span class="content">Give me relief from my distress;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"><span class="content">have mercy on me and hear my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long will you people turn my glory into shame?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.4.2"><span class="content">How long will you love delusions and seek false gods</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seek lies</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </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 verse 4.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has set apart his faithful servant for himself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.4.3"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> hears when I call to him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Tremble and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">In your anger </span><span class="ft">(see Septuagint)</span></span></span><span class="content"> do not sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.4.4"><span class="content">when you are on your beds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.4.4"><span class="content">search your hearts and be silent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Offer the sacrifices of the righteous</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.4.5"><span class="content">and trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are asking, &#8220;Who will bring us prosperity?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.4.6"><span class="content">Let the light of your face shine on us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Fill my heart with joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.4.7"><span class="content">when their grain and new wine abound.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In peace I will lie down and sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.4.8"><span class="content">for you alone, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.4.8"><span class="content">make me dwell in safety.</span></span></div>
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