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         <div class="label">46</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Goes to Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.46.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.46.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.46.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, &#8220;Jacob! Jacob!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.46.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.46.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.46.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am God, the God of your father,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.46.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph&#8217;s own hand will close your eyes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.46.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.46.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel&#8217;s sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.46.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.46.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters&#8212;all his offspring.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.46.7"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.46.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.46.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">These are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.46.8"></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.46.8"><span class="content">Reuben the firstborn of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.46.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.46.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The sons of Reuben:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.46.9"><span class="content">Hanok, Pallu, Hezron and Karmi.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.46.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.46.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The sons of Simeon:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.46.10"><span class="content">Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.46.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.46.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The sons of Levi:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.46.11"><span class="content">Gershon, Kohath and Merari.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.46.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The sons of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"><span class="content">Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan).</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"><span class="content">The sons of Perez:</span></span></div><div class="li3"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"><span class="content">Hezron and Hamul.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.46.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sons of Issachar:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.46.13"><span class="content">Tola, Puah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">46:13 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch and Syriac (see also <span class="ref" usfm="1CH.7.1">1 Chron. 7:1</span>); Masoretic Text Puvah</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jashub</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">46:13 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also <span class="ref" usfm="NUM.26.24">Num. 26:24</span> and <span class="ref" usfm="1CH.7.1">1 Chron. 7:1</span>); Masoretic Text Iob</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Shimron.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.46.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.46.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The sons of Zebulun:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.46.14"><span class="content">Sered, Elon and Jahleel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.46.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.46.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These were the sons Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">46:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> besides his daughter Dinah. These sons and daughters of his were thirty-three in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.46.15"></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.46.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.46.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The sons of Gad:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.46.16"><span class="content">Zephon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">46:16 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint (see also <span class="ref" usfm="NUM.26.15">Num. 26:15</span>); Masoretic Text Ziphion</span></span></span><span class="content"> Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.46.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The sons of Asher:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="content">Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah.</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="content">Their sister was Serah.</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="content">The sons of Beriah:</span></span></div><div class="li3"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="content">Heber and Malkiel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.46.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah&#8212;sixteen in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.46.18"></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.46.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.46.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The sons of Jacob&#8217;s wife Rachel:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.46.19"><span class="content">Joseph and Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.46.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">46:20 </span><span class="ft">That is, Heliopolis</span></span></span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.46.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.46.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The sons of Benjamin:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.46.21"><span class="content">Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.46.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.46.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob&#8212;fourteen in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.46.22"></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.46.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.46.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The son of Dan:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.46.23"><span class="content">Hushim.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.46.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.46.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The sons of Naphtali:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.46.24"><span class="content">Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.46.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.46.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">These were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel&#8212;seven in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.46.25"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.46.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.46.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">All those who went to Egypt with Jacob&#8212;those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons&#8217; wives&#8212;numbered sixty-six persons. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.46.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">With the two sons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">46:27 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">the nine children</span></span></span><span class="content"> who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob&#8217;s family, which went to Egypt, were seventy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">46:27 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew (see also <span class="ref" usfm="EXO.1.5">Exodus 1:5</span> and note); Septuagint (see also <span class="ref" usfm="ACT.7.14">Acts 7:14</span>) </span><span class="fqa">seventy-five</span></span></span><span class="content"> in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.46.27"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.46.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.46.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When they arrived in the region of Goshen, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.46.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">46:29 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">around him</span></span></span><span class="content"> and wept for a long time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.46.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.46.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;Now I am ready to die, since I have seen for myself that you are still alive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.46.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.46.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father&#8217;s household, &#8220;I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, &#8216;My brothers and my father&#8217;s household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.46.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.46.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, &#8216;What is your occupation?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.46.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">you should answer, &#8216;Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.&#8217; Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">47</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.47.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Joseph went and told Pharaoh, &#8220;My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.47.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.47.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.47.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Pharaoh asked the brothers, &#8220;What is your occupation?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.47.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Your servants are shepherds,&#8221; they replied to Pharaoh, &#8220;just as our fathers were.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.47.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They also said to him, &#8220;We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants&#8217; flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.47.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.47.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;Your father and your brothers have come to you, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.47.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.47.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.47.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">47:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">greeted</span></span></span><span class="content"> Pharaoh, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.47.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Pharaoh asked him, &#8220;How old are you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.47.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.47.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And Jacob said to Pharaoh, &#8220;The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.47.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Jacob blessed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">47:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">said farewell to</span></span></span><span class="content"> Pharaoh and went out from his presence.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.47.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.47.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.47.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father&#8217;s household with food, according to the number of their children.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph and the Famine</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.47.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.47.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.47.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh&#8217;s palace. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.47.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, &#8220;Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is all gone.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.47.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.47.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then bring your livestock,&#8221; said Joseph. &#8220;I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.47.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.47.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.47.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, &#8220;We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.47.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Why should we perish before your eyes&#8212;we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.47.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.47.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh&#8217;s, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.47.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and Joseph reduced the people to servitude,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">47:21 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint (see also Vulgate); Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">and he moved the people into the cities</span></span></span><span class="content"> from one end of Egypt to the other. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.47.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.47.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.47.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Joseph said to the people, &#8220;Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.47.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.47.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.47.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;You have saved our lives,&#8221; they said. &#8220;May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.47.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.47.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt&#8212;still in force today&#8212;that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. It was only the land of the priests that did not become Pharaoh&#8217;s.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.47.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.47.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.47.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.47.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.47.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.47.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.47.30"><span class="content">&#8220;I will do as you say,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.47.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.47.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;Swear to me,&#8221; he said. Then Joseph swore to him, and Israel worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">47:31 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Israel bowed down at the head of his bed</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don&#8217;t wash their hands before they eat!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.15.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For God said, &#8216;Honor your father and mother&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:4 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="EXO.20.12">Exodus 20:12</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="DEU.5.16">Deut. 5:16</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and &#8216;Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:4 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="EXO.21.17">Exodus 21:17</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="LEV.20.9">Lev. 20:9</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is &#8216;devoted to God,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">they are not to &#8216;honor their father or mother&#8217; with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.15.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;These people honor me with their lips,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.15.8"><span class="wj"><span class="content">but their hearts are far from me.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.15.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They worship me in vain;</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.15.9"><span class="wj"><span class="content">their teachings are merely human rules.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:9 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.29.13">Isaiah 29:13</span> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.15.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus called the crowd to him and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen and understand.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">What goes into someone&#8217;s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.15.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the disciples came to him and asked, &#8220;Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.15.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Leave them; they are blind guides.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">15:14 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">blind guides of the blind</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.15.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Peter said, &#8220;Explain the parable to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.15.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Are you still so dull?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus asked them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the things that come out of a person&#8217;s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For out of the heart come evil thoughts&#8212;murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Faith of a Canaanite Woman</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.15.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, &#8220;Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.15.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, &#8220;Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.15.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.15.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The woman came and knelt before him. &#8220;Lord, help me!&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.15.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not right to take the children&#8217;s bread and toss it to the dogs.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.15.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yes it is, Lord,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master&#8217;s table.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.15.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And her daughter was healed at that moment.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 19</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 19:1-14 is numbered 19:2-15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The heavens declare the glory of God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.19.1"><span class="content">the skies proclaim the work of his hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.19.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Day after day they pour forth speech;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.19.2"><span class="content">night after night they reveal knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.19.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They have no speech, they use no words;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.19.3"><span class="content">no sound is heard from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.19.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Yet their voice</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:4 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Jerome and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">measuring line</span></span></span><span class="content"> goes out into all the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.19.4"><span class="content">their words to the ends of the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.19.4"><span class="content">In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.19.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.19.5"><span class="content">like a champion rejoicing to run his course.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.19.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">It rises at one end of the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.19.6"><span class="content">and makes its circuit to the other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.19.6"><span class="content">nothing is deprived of its warmth.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.19.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.19.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is perfect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"><span class="content">refreshing the soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"><span class="content">The statutes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are trustworthy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"><span class="content">making wise the simple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.19.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The precepts of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"><span class="content">giving joy to the heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"><span class="content">The commands of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are radiant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"><span class="content">giving light to the eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.19.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"><span class="content">enduring forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"><span class="content">The decrees of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are firm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"><span class="content">and all of them are righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.19.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They are more precious than gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"><span class="content">than much pure gold;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"><span class="content">they are sweeter than honey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"><span class="content">than honey from the honeycomb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.19.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">By them your servant is warned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.19.11"><span class="content">in keeping them there is great reward.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.19.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But who can discern their own errors?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.19.12"><span class="content">Forgive my hidden faults.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.19.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Keep your servant also from willful sins;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"><span class="content">may they not rule over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"><span class="content">Then I will be blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"><span class="content">innocent of great transgression.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.19.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.19.14"><span class="content">be pleasing in your sight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.19.14"><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my Rock and my Redeemer.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not set foot on the path of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"><span class="content">or walk in the way of evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Avoid it, do not travel on it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"><span class="content">turn from it and go on your way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For they cannot rest until they do evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"><span class="content">they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They eat the bread of wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"><span class="content">and drink the wine of violence.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The path of the righteous is like the morning sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="content">shining ever brighter till the full light of day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"><span class="content">they do not know what makes them stumble.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"></span></div>
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