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   <div class="book bkEXO">
      <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="EXO.22">
         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Protection of Property</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 22:1 is numbered 21:37, and 22:2-31 is numbered 22:1-30.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.22.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If the stolen animal is found alive in their possession&#8212;whether ox or donkey or sheep&#8212;they must pay back double.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else&#8217;s field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a fire breaks out and spreads into thornbushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor&#8217;s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">before God, and he will</span></span></span><span class="content"> determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person&#8217;s property. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says, &#8216;This is mine,&#8217; both parties are to bring their cases before the judges.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">before God</span></span></span><span class="content"> The one whom the judges declare</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">whom God declares</span></span></span><span class="content"> guilty must pay back double to the other.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to their neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person&#8217;s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be required to pay for the torn animal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Social Responsibility</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not allow a sorceress to live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> must be destroyed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:20 </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></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">If you take your neighbor&#8217;s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not blaspheme God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:28 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Do not revile the judges</span></span></span><span class="content"> or curse the ruler of your people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:29 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.22.29"><span class="content">&#8220;You must give me the firstborn of your sons. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.22.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts; throw it to the dogs.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkEXO">
      <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="EXO.23">
         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Laws of Justice and Mercy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you come across your enemy&#8217;s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sabbath Laws</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Three Annual Festivals</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.23.15"><span class="content">&#8220;No one is to appear before me empty-handed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.23.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.23.18"><span class="content">&#8220;The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.23.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not cook a young goat in its mother&#8217;s milk.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Angel to Prepare the Way</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will establish your borders from the Red Sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:31 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the Mediterranean Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:31 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">to the Sea of the Philistines</span></span></span><span class="content"> and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkPRO">
      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="PRO.18">
         <div class="label">18</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"><span class="content">and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Fools find no pleasure in understanding</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"><span class="content">but delight in airing their own opinions.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When wickedness comes, so does contempt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"><span class="content">and with shame comes reproach.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The words of the mouth are deep waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"><span class="content">but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is not good to be partial to the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"><span class="content">and so deprive the innocent of justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The lips of fools bring them strife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"><span class="content">and their mouths invite a beating.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The mouths of fools are their undoing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"><span class="content">and their lips are a snare to their very lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"><span class="content">they go down to the inmost parts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">One who is slack in his work</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"><span class="content">is brother to one who destroys.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a fortified tower;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"><span class="content">the righteous run to it and are safe.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"><span class="content">they imagine it a wall too high to scale.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Before a downfall the heart is haughty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"><span class="content">but humility comes before honor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">To answer before listening&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"><span class="content">that is folly and shame.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The human spirit can endure in sickness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"><span class="content">but a crushed spirit who can bear?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"><span class="content">for the ears of the wise seek it out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A gift opens the way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"><span class="content">and ushers the giver into the presence of the great.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"><span class="content">until someone comes forward and cross-examines.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Casting the lot settles disputes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"><span class="content">and keeps strong opponents apart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A brother wronged is more unyielding than a fortified city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"><span class="content">disputes are like the barred gates of a citadel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">From the fruit of their mouth a person&#8217;s stomach is filled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"><span class="content">with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The tongue has the power of life and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"><span class="content">and those who love it will eat its fruit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He who finds a wife finds what is good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"><span class="content">and receives favor from 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 v22" data-usfm="PRO.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The poor plead for mercy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"><span class="content">but the rich answer harshly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.18.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.18.24"><span class="content">but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His disciples answered, &#8220;But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How many loaves do you have?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.8.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Seven,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them also and told the disciples to distribute them. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The people ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">About four thousand were present. After he had sent them away, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He sighed deeply and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then he left them, got back into the boat and crossed to the other side.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be careful,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus warned them. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They discussed this with one another and said, &#8220;It is because we have no bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don&#8217;t you remember?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Twelve,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.8.20"><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;Seven.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you still not understand?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man&#8217;s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you see anything?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He looked up and said, &#8220;I see people; they look like trees walking around.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.8.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Once more Jesus put his hands on the man&#8217;s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jesus sent him home, saying, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t even go into</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:26 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">go and tell anyone in</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the village.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Declares That Jesus Is the Messiah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.8.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who do people say I am?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.8.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But what about you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who do you say I am?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.8.29"><span class="content">Peter answered, &#8220;You are the Messiah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.8.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.8.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get behind me, Satan!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Way of the Cross</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.8.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For whoever wants to save their life</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:35 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word means either </span><span class="fqa">life </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">soul</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 36 and 37.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.8.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.8.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father&#8217;s glory with the holy angels.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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