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-- And the west side shall be the great sea from the border, as far as over against the entering into Hamath: this is the west side.


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And it shall come to pass that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you; and they shall be unto you as the home-born among the children of Israel: with you shall they draw by lot inheritance among the tribes of Israel.


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And it shall come to pass that in the tribe in which the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give [him] his inheritance, saith the Lord Jehovah.


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And these are the names of the tribes: From the north end along the way of Hethlon, as one entereth into Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward unto near Hamath -- the east and west side [belonging] to him -- shall Dan have one [portion].


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And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the heave-offering that ye shall offer, five and twenty thousand [cubits] in breadth, and in length as one of the parts from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.


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The heave-offering that ye shall offer unto Jehovah shall be five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth.


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And for them, for the priests, shall be the holy heave-offering, toward the north five and twenty thousand, and toward the west the breadth ten thousand, and toward the east the breadth ten thousand, and toward the south the length five and twenty thousand: and the sanctuary of Jehovah shall be in the midst of it.


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[It shall be] for the priests that are hallowed of the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge and went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.


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And this offering heaved from the heave-offering of the land shall be unto them a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.


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And answering to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: the whole length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.


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And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the first-fruits of the land: for it is holy unto Jehovah.


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And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a common [place] for the city, for dwellings and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst of it.


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And these shall be the measures thereof: the north side four thousand and five hundred [cubits], and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.


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And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty [cubits], and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.


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And the residue in length, alongside the holy heave-offering, shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward: it shall be alongside the holy heave-offering; and the increase thereof shall be for the support of them that serve the city.


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The whole heave-offering shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand; ye shall offer the holy heave-offering foursquare with the possession of the city.


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And the rest shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy heave-offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the five and twenty thousand of the heave-offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, answering to the [other] portions: it shall be for the prince; and the holy heave-offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.


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And from the possession of the Levites and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which shall be the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.


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And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be from Tamar [to] the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, by the torrent, unto the great sea.


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This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord Jehovah.


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And these are the goings out of the city. On the north side, four thousand and five hundred [cubits] by measure.


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And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.


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And at the east side four thousand and five hundred, and three gates: the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.


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And at the south side four thousand and five hundred [cubits] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.


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At the west side four thousand and five hundred, [and] their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.


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Round about it was eighteen thousand [cubits]; and the name of the city from that day, Jehovah is there.


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And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, and a part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar, to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.


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And the king spoke unto Ashpenaz the chief of his eunuchs, that he should bring of the children of Israel, both of the royal seed and of the nobles,


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youths in whom was no blemish, and of goodly countenance, and skilful in all wisdom, and acquainted with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.


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And the king appointed unto them a daily provision of the king's delicate food, and of the wine that he drank, to nourish them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.


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And the prince of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel he gave [the name] Belteshazzar, and to Hananiah, Shadrach, and to Mishael, Meshach, and to Azariah, Abed-nego.


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And Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not pollute himself with the king's delicate food, nor with the wine which he drank; and he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not have to pollute himself.


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And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king who hath appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces worse liking than the youths who are of your age? and ye would endanger my head with the king.


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And Daniel said to the steward, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,


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Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink;


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then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the youths that eat of the king's delicate food: and as thou shalt see, deal with thy servants.


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And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and were fatter in flesh than all the youths that ate of the king's delicate food.


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So the steward took away their delicate food, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.


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As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.


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And at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.


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And the king spoke with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: and they stood before the king.


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And in all matters of judicious wisdom, as to which the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the scribes [and] magicians that were in all his realm.


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And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.


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And the king commanded to call the scribes, and the magicians, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to shew the king his dreams; and they came and stood before the king.


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And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, O king, live for ever! tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.


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The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The command is gone forth from me: If ye do not make known unto me the dream, and its interpretation, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.


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But if ye shew the dream and its interpretation, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour; therefore shew me the dream and its interpretation.


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They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.


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The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain time, because ye see the word is gone forth from me;


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but if ye do not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you; for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me its interpretation.


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The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter; therefore there is no king, however great and powerful, that hath asked such a thing of any scribe, or magician, or Chaldean.


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For the thing that the king demandeth is extraordinary, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.


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For this cause the king was irritated and very wroth, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.


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And the decree went forth that the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to slay them.


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Then Daniel answered with counsel and prudence to Arioch the chief of the king's bodyguard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:


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he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so rigorous from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.


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And Daniel went in, and requested of the king that he would give him time, that he might shew the king the interpretation.


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Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions;


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that they would desire mercies of the God of the heavens concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.


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Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of the heavens.


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Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever; For wisdom and might are his.


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And it is he that changeth times and seasons; He deposeth kings, and setteth up kings; He giveth wisdom to the wise, And knowledge to them that know understanding.


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It is he that revealeth the deep and secret things; He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.


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I thank thee, and I praise thee, O God of my fathers, Who hast given me wisdom and might, And hast made known unto me already what we desired of thee; For thou hast made known unto us the king's matter.


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Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus unto him: Destroy not the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.


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Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him: I have found a man of the sons of the captivity of Judah that will make known unto the king the interpretation.


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The king answered and said unto Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream that I have seen, and its interpretation?


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Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, The secret that the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the magicians, the scribes, the astrologers, shew unto the king;


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but there is a God in the heavens, who revealeth secrets, and maketh known to king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be at the end of days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed are these:


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-- as for thee, O king, thy thoughts arose upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and he that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass.


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And as for me, this secret is revealed to me, not by [any] wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation should be made known to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.


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Thou, O king, sawest, and behold, a great image. This image was mighty and its brightness excellent; it stood before thee, and its appearance was terrible.


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This image's head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,


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Thou sawest till a stone was cut out without hands; and it smote the image upon its feet of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.


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Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken in pieces together, and they became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them. And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.


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Thou, O king, art a king of kings, unto whom the God of the heavens hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;


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and wheresoever the children of men, the beasts of the field, and the fowl of the heavens dwell, he hath given them into thy hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all: thou art this head of gold.


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And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee; then another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.


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And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth everything, and as iron that breaketh all these, so shall it break in pieces and bruise.


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And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.


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And [as] the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.


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And in the days of these kings shall the God of the heavens set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the sovereignty thereof shall not be left to another people: it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, but itself shall stand for ever.


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Forasmuch as thou sawest that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, -- the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter. And the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.


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Then king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.


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The king answered Daniel and said, Of a truth it is that your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, because thou wast able to reveal this secret.


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Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.


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And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego over the administration of the province of Babylon. And Daniel was in the gate of the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, [and] its breadth six cubits; he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.


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And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the justices, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the justices, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.


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that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, pipe, lute, sambuca, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up;


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and whosoever doth not fall down and worship shall that same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.


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Therefore at that time when all the peoples heard the sound of the cornet, pipe, lute, sambuca, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages fell down [and] worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


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Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, pipe, lute, sambuca, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;


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and [that] whosoever doth not fall down and worship, shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.


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There are certain Jews whom thou hast appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: these men, O king, regard thee not; they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image that thou hast set up.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then were these men brought before the king.


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Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it of purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my god, nor worship the golden image that I have set up?


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Now if ye be ready at the time that ye hear the sound of the cornet, pipe, lute, sambuca, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, [well]: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast that same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hands?


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If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thy hand, O king.


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But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image that thou hast set up.


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Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.


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And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and cast them into the burning fiery furnace.


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Then these men were bound in their hosen, their tunics, and their cloaks, and their garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.


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Forasmuch as the king's commandment was rigorous, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that had taken up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste; he spoke and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said to the king, True, O king.


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He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of God.


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Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the opening of the burning fiery furnace; he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come [hither]. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came forth from the midst of the fire.


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And the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had had no power, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their hosen changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.


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Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and who changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God!


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Therefore I make a decree, that in every people, nation, and language, he who shall speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and his house shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that is able to deliver after this sort.


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Nebuchadnezzar the king unto all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto you.


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It hath seemed good unto me to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God hath wrought toward me.


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How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.


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I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.


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And I made a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.


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Then came in the scribes, the magicians, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation of it.


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But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and before him I told the dream:


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O Belteshazzar, master of the scribes, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret is too hard for thee, tell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, and the interpretation of it.


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Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.


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The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached unto the heavens, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.


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Its leaves were beautiful, and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all: the beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens dwelt in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.


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I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the heavens;


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he cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the birds from its branches.


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Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be bathed with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.


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Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.


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This sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the decision by the word of the holy ones: that the living may know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.


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This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and thou, Belteshazzar, tell the interpretation, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation; but thou art able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.


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Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spoke and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, nor its interpretation, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and its interpretation to thine enemies!


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The tree that thou sawest, which grew and was strong, whose height reached unto the heavens, and the sight of it to all the earth;


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whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens had their habitation:


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it is thou, O king, who art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.


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And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be bathed with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him:


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this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which cometh upon my lord the king:


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They shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and thou shalt be bathed with the dew of heaven; and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.


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And whereas it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom shall remain unto thee, after that thou shalt know that the heavens do rule.


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Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.


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the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?


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While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from the heavens: King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee;


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and they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.


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The same hour was the word fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen; and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, till his hair grew like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].


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And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto the heavens, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.


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And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of the heavens, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?


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At the same time mine understanding returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my nobles sought me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added unto me.


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Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.


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Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles, and drank wine before the thousand.


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Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, might drink in them.


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Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, drank in them.


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They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.


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In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.


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Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.


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The king cried aloud to bring in the magicians, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.


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Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his nobles were confounded.


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-- The queen, by reason of the words of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet-house. The queen spoke and said, O king, live for ever! let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy countenance be changed.


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There is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, [even] the king thy father, made him master of the scribes, magicians, Chaldeans, [and] astrologers;


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forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and solving of problems, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.


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Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?


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And I have heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and [that] light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.


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And now the wise men, the magicians, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof; but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing.


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But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give interpretations, and solve problems. Now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet will I read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.


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O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty;


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and for the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he exalted, and whom he would he humbled.


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But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;


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and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.


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but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:


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Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and [put] a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.


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It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be in all the kingdom;


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and over these, three presidents -- of whom Daniel was one -- to whom these satraps should render account, and that the king should suffer no loss.


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Now this Daniel surpassed the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to appoint him over the whole realm.


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Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a pretext against Daniel with respect to the kingdom; but they could not find any pretext or fault; inasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.


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Then said these men, We shall not find any pretext against this Daniel, unless we find [it] against him touching the law of his God.


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Then these presidents and satraps came in a body to the king, and said thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever!


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All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.


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Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.


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And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and, his windows being open in his upper chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.


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Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's decree: Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask [anything] of any god or man within thirty days, except of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.


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Then they answered and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.


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Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore distressed thereby, and set his heart on Daniel to save him; and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.


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Then these men came in a body unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.


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Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast [him] into the den of lions. The king spoke and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will save thee.


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And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his nobles, that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.


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Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were concubines brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.


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And when he came near unto the den, he cried with a mournful voice unto Daniel: the king spoke and said unto Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, hath thy God whom thou servest continually been able to save thee from the lions?


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My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before him innocence was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.


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Thereupon was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.


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And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces ere they came to the bottom of the den.


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Then king Darius wrote unto all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto you.


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I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast for ever, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.


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He saveth and delivereth, and he worketh signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth: who hath saved Daniel from the power of the lions.


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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream; he told the sum of the matters.


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Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heavens broke forth upon the great sea.


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The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till its wings were plucked; and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.


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And behold, another beast, a second, like unto a bear, and it raised up itself on one side; and [it had] three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and they said thus unto it: Arise, devour much flesh.


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After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird upon its back; and the beast had four heads; and dominion was given to it.


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After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceeding strong; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.


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I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another, a little horn, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.


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I beheld till thrones were set, and the Ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was flames of fire, [and] its wheels burning fire.


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A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him; thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.


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I beheld therefore, because of the voice of the great words that the horn spoke; I beheld till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given up to be burned with fire.


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As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away; but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.


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I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of heaven [one] like a son of man, and he came up even to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.


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And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed.


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As for me Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.


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I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the certainty of all this. And he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things:


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But the saints of the most high [places] shall receive the kingdom, and they shall possess the kingdom for ever, even to the ages of ages.


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Then I desired to know the certainty concerning the fourth beast, which was different from them all, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet;


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and concerning the ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and before which three fell: even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and whose look was more imposing than its fellows.


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until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most high [places]; and the appointed time arrived, and the saints possessed the kingdom.


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He said thus: The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.


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And as to the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall arise ten kings; and another shall arise after them; and he shall be different from the former, and he shall subdue three kings.


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And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most high [places], and think to change seasons and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and a half time.


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And the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.


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But the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heavens, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high [places]. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.


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So far is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my countenance was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.


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In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king, a vision appeared unto me, [even] to me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.


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And I saw in the vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was in the fortress of Shushan, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.


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And I lifted up mine eyes and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns; and the two horns were high; and one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.


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I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward, and no beast could stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; and he did according to his will, and became great.


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And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran upon him in the fury of his power.


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And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged with him, and smote the ram, and broke his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; and he cast him down to the ground, and trampled upon him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.


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And the he-goat became exceeding great; but when he was become strong, the great horn was broken; and in its stead came up four notable ones toward the four winds of the heavens.


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And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which became exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the beauty [of the earth].


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And it became great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down [some] of the host and of the stars to the ground, and trampled upon them.


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(And he magnified [himself] even to the prince of the host, and from him the continual [sacrifice] was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.


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And a time of trial was appointed unto the continual [sacrifice] by reason of transgression.) And it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised and prospered.


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And I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that one who spoke, How long shall be the vision of the continual [sacrifice] and of the transgression that maketh desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden down under foot?


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And he said unto me, Until two thousand and three hundred evenings [and] mornings: then shall the sanctuary be vindicated.


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And it came to pass, when I Daniel had seen the vision, I sought for the understanding of it, and behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.


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And I heard a man's voice between [the banks of] the Ulai; and he called and said, Gabriel, make this [man] to understand the vision.


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And he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was afraid, and fell on my face; and he said unto me, Understand, son of man; for the vision is for the time of the end.


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Now, as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep stupor, with my face toward the ground. And he touched me, and set me up where I had stood.


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And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be at the end of the indignation: for at the set time the end shall be.


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And the rough goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn that was between his eyes is the first king.


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Now that being broken, whereas four stood up in its stead, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.


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And at the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors shall have come to the full, a king of bold countenance, and understanding riddles, shall stand up.


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And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy marvellously, and shall prosper, and shall practise, and shall destroy the mighty ones, and the people of the saints.


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And through his cunning shall he cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he will magnify [himself] in his heart, and by prosperity will corrupt many; and he will stand up against the Prince of princes: but he shall be broken without hand.


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And the vision of the evening and the morning which hath been told is true; but close thou up the vision, for it is for many days [to come].


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And I Daniel fainted, and was sick [certain] days: then I rose up, and did the king's business. And I was astonished at the vision, but none understood [it].


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in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by the books that the number of the years, whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishment of the desolations of Jerusalem, was seventy years.


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And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;


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and I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made my confession, and said, Alas Lord! the great and terrible ùGod, keeping covenant and loving-kindness with them that love him, and that keep his commandments:


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we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances.


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And we have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.


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Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.


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O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.


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and we have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through his servants the prophets.


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And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice. And the curse hath been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God: for we have sinned against him.


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And he hath performed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; so that there hath not been done under the whole heaven as hath been done upon Jerusalem.


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As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us; yet we besought not Jehovah our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.


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And Jehovah hath watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he hath done; and we have not hearkened unto his voice.


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-- And now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thee a name, as it is this day, -- we have sinned, we have done wickedly.


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Lord, according to all thy righteousnesses, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; for because of our sins, and because of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a reproach to all round about us.


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And now, our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.


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Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.


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Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, hearken and do! defer not, for thine own sake, O my God! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.


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And whilst I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Jehovah my God for the holy mountain of my God;


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whilst I was yet speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.


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And he informed [me], and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to make thee skilful of understanding.


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At the beginning of thy supplications the word went forth, and I am come to declare [it]; for thou art one greatly beloved. Therefore consider the word, and have understanding in the vision:


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Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.


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Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.


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And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, -- the desolations determined.


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And he shall confirm a covenant with the many [for] one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the protection of abominations [there shall be] a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate.


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In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing is true, but the appointed time of trial is long; and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.


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I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three full weeks were fulfilled.


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And on the four-and-twentieth day of the first month, I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel:


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and I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, and his loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz;


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and his body was like a chrysolite, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as torches of fire, and his arms and his feet as the look of burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.


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And I Daniel alone saw the vision; and the men that were with me saw not the vision, but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.


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And I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me; and my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.


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And I heard the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, I fell into a deep stupor on my face, and my face to the ground.


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And he said unto me, O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words which I speak unto thee, and stand upright; for unto thee am I now sent. And as he spoke this word unto me, I stood trembling.


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And he said unto me, Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come because of thy words.


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But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.


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And I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people at the end of the days: for the vision is yet for [many] days.


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And as he was speaking with me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.


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And behold, one after the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips; and I opened my mouth and spoke, and said unto him that stood before me, My lord, by reason of the vision my pains are turned upon me, and I retain no strength.


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And how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remaineth no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.


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and he said, Fear not, man greatly beloved; peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And as he was speaking with me I was strengthened, and I said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.


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And he said, Knowest thou wherefore I am come unto thee? And now I return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I go forth, behold, the prince of Greece shall come.


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However, I will declare unto thee that which is set down in the scripture of truth; and there is not one that sheweth himself strong with me against these, but Michael your prince.


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And now will I declare unto thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall enrich himself with great riches more than all; and when he hath become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.


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And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of the heavens; but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion wherewith he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside these.


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And the king of the south, who is one of his princes, shall be strong; but [another] shall be stronger than he, and have dominion: his dominion shall be a great dominion.


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And after the course of years they shall join affinity; and the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make equitable conditions: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; and she shall be given up, she and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in [those] times.


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But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his place, who shall come to the army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shew himself mighty.


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He shall also carry captive into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall subsist for more years than the king of the north;


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and [the same] shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but shall return into his own land.


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And his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces; and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through; and he shall return and carry the war even to his fortress.


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And the king of the south shall be enraged, and shall come forth and fight with him, with the king of the north, who shall set forth a great multitude, but the multitude shall be given into his hand.


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And when the multitude shall have been taken away, his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down myriads; but he shall not prevail.


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For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former; and shall certainly come at the end of the times of years with a great army and with much substance.


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And in those times shall many stand up against the king of the south; and the violent of thy people will exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.


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And the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take the well-fenced city; and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, for there shall be no strength to withstand.


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And he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the land of beauty, and destruction shall be in his hand.


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And he shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; and he shall practise; and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither shall she be for him.


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And he shall turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many; but a captain for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease: he shall turn it upon him, without reproach for himself.


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And he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; and he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.


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And in his place shall one stand up who shall cause the exactor to pass through the glory of the kingdom; but in a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.


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And in his place shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom; but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.


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And the overflowing forces shall be overflowed from before him, and shall be broken: yea, also the prince of the covenant.


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And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully, and he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.


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In time of peace shall he enter even into the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance, and he shall plan his devices against the fortified places, even for a time.


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And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall engage in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for they shall plan devices against him.


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And they that eat of his delicate food shall break him, and his army shall be dissolved; and many shall fall down slain.


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And both these kings' hearts [shall meditate] mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.


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And he shall return into his land with great substance; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall practise, and return to his own land.


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At the set time he shall return, and come towards the south; but not as the former time shall be the latter;


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for ships of Chittim shall come against him; and he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant; and will practise; and he shall return and direct his attention to those that forsake the holy covenant.


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And forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, the fortress, and shall take away the continual [sacrifice], and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.


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And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people that know their God shall be strong, and shall act.


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And they that are wise among the people shall instruct the many; and they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, [many] days.


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And when they fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.


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And [some] of the wise shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, to the time of the end: for it shall yet be for the time appointed.


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And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every ùgod, and speak monstrous things against the ùGod of ùgods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished: for that which is determined shall be done.


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And he will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women; nor regard any +god: for he will magnify himself above all.


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And in his place will he honour the +god of fortresses; and a +god whom his fathers knew not will he honour with gold and silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things.


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And he will practise in the strongholds of fortresses with a strange +god: whoso acknowledgeth him will he increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over the many, and shall divide the land [to them] for a reward.


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And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and overflow and pass through.


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And he shall enter into the land of beauty, and many [countries] shall be overthrown; but these shall escape out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.


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And he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.


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But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; and he shall go forth with great fury to exterminate, and utterly to destroy many.


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And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the mountain of holy beauty; and he shall come to his end, and there shall be none to help him.


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And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of distress, such as never was since there was a nation until that time. And at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that is found written in the book.


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And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt.


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And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and they that turn the many to righteousness as the stars, for ever and ever.


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And thou, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book, till the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.


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And I Daniel looked, and behold, there stood other two, the one on this side, on the bank of the river, and the other on that side, on the bank of the river.


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And he said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long [is it to] the end of these wonders?


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And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river; and he held up his right hand and his left hand unto the heavens, and swore by him that liveth for ever that it is for a time, times, and a half; and when the scattering of the power of the holy people shall be accomplished, all these things shall be finished.


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Many shall be purified, and be made white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.


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And from the time that the continual [sacrifice] is taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, [there shall be] a thousand, two hundred, and ninety days.


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But do thou go thy way until the end; and thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.


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The word of Jehovah that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.


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The beginning of the word of Jehovah through Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms; for the land is entirely given up to whoredom, away from Jehovah.


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And Jehovah said unto him, Call his name Jizreel; for yet a little, and I will visit the blood of Jizreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jizreel.


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And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, so that I should pardon them.


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But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by Jehovah their God; and I will not save them by bow, or by sword, or by battle, [or] by horses, or by horsemen.


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Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Sons of the living ùGod.


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And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land: for great is the day of Jizreel.


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Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;


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lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her as a dry land, and slay her with thirst.


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For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.


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Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I will fence [her] in with a wall, that she shall not find her paths.


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And she shall pursue after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, and shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now.


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And she did not know that I had given her the corn and the new wine and the oil, and had multiplied to her the silver and gold, which they employed for Baal.


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Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my new wine in its season, and will withdraw my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.


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And now will I discover her impiety in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.


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And I will cause all her mirth to cease: her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths! and all her solemnities.


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And I will make desolate her vine and her fig-tree, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards which my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.


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And I will visit upon her the days of the Baals, wherein she burned incense to them, and decked herself with her rings and jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith Jehovah.


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And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


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And it shall be in that day, saith Jehovah, [that] thou shalt call me, My husband, and shalt call me no more, Baali;


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for I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.


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And I will make a covenant for them in that day with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will break bow and sword and battle out of the land; and I will make them to lie down safely.


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And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; and I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies;


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And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith Jehovah, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;


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And I will sow her unto me in the land; and I will have mercy upon Lo-ruhamah; and I will say to Lo-ammi, Thou art my people; and they shall say, My God.


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And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah for the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love raisin-cakes.


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So I bought her to me for fifteen silver [pieces], and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.


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And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be [another] man's, and I will also be for thee.


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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without statue, and without ephod and teraphim.


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Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king; and shall turn with fear toward Jehovah and toward his goodness, at the end of the days.


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Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; for there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.


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Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, -- they break out; and blood toucheth blood.


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For this shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.


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Yet let no man strive, and let no man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.


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And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.


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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.


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And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings;


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and they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: for they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.


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My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God:


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they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because the shade thereof is good; therefore your daughters play the harlot and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.


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I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your daughters-in-law for their committing adultery; for they themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: and the people that doth not understand shall come to ruin.


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Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah trespass; and come ye not unto Gilgal, neither go up to Beth-aven, nor swear [As] Jehovah liveth!


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For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide [pasture].


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Their drink is sour; they give themselves up to whoredom; her great men passionately love [their] shame.


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Hear this, ye priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: for this judgment is for you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.


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And they have plunged themselves in the corruption of apostasy, but I will be a chastiser of them all.


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I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom; Israel is defiled.


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Their doings do not allow them to return unto their God; for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they know not Jehovah.


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And Israel's pride doth testify to his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall by their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.


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They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find [him]: he hath withdrawn himself from them.


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They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they havebegotten strange children: now shall the new moon devour them, with their allotted possessions.


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Ephraim shall be a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which is sure.


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The princes of Judah are become like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.


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Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because in selfwill he walked after the commandment [of man].


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When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sore, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb; but he was unable to heal you, nor hath he removed your sore.


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For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, I will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.


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I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.


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Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.


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After two days will he revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before his face;


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and we shall know, -- we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.


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What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.


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Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and my judgment goeth forth as the light.


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For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.


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And as troops of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; yea, they commit lewdness.


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In the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.


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When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they practise falsehood; and the thief entereth in, [and] the troop of robbers assaileth without.


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And they say not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now do their own doings encompass them; they are before my face.


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They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring [the fire] after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.


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In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners.


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For they have applied their heart like an oven to their lying in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth like a flaming fire.


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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.


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And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face; and they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek him for all this.


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And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.


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When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowl of the heavens; I will chastise them, according as their assembly hath heard.


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Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have transgressed against me. And I would redeem them; but they speak lies against me.


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And they cried not unto me in their heart, when they howled upon their beds; they assemble themselves for corn and new wine; they have turned aside from me.


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They return, [but] not to the [Most] High: they are like a deceitful bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.


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Set the trumpet to thy mouth. [He cometh] as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.


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They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.


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Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be incapable of purity?


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For from Israel is this also: -- a workman made it, and itis no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be [broken in] pieces.


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For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; should it sprout, it would yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.


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Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes.


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They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.


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For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.


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Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.


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They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria shall they eat that which is unclean.


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They shall pour out no [offerings of] wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.


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For behold, they are gone away because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Moph shall bury them: their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.


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The days of visitation are come; the days of recompence are come: Israel shall know [it]: the prophet is a fool, the inspired man is mad, because of the greatness of thine iniquity, and the great enmity.


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Is Ephraim a watchman with my God? [nay] the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, enmity in the house of his God.


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They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.


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I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover.


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For even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that] not a man [remain]: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them!


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Ephraim, as I saw [him], was a Tyre planted in a beautiful place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.


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All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings, I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebellious.


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Ephraim is smitten: their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved [fruit] of their womb.


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My God hath rejected them, because they hearkened not unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.


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Israel is an unpruned vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly statues.


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Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will break down their altars, he will destroy their statues.


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For now they will say, We have no king, for we feared not Jehovah; and a king, what can he do for us?


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They speak [mere] words, swearing falsely in making a covenant; therefore shall judgment spring up as hemlock in the furrows of the fields.


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The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calf of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the idolatrous priests thereof shall tremble for it, for its glory, because it is departed from it.


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Yea, it shall be carried unto Assyria [as] a present for king Jareb: Ephraim shall be seized with shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.


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And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up upon their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! and to the hills, Fall on us!


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From the days of Gibeah hast thou sinned, O Israel: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.


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At my pleasure will I chastise them; and the peoples shall be assembled against them, when they are bound for their two iniquities.


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And Ephraim is a trained heifer, that loveth to tread out [the corn]; I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to draw; Judah shall plough, Jacob shall break his clods.


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Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.


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Ye have ploughed wickedness, reaped iniquity, eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst confide in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.


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And a tumult shall arise among thy peoples, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with the children.


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So shall Bethel do unto you because of the wickedness of your wickedness: at day-break shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.


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As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baals, and burned incense to graven images.


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And I it was that taught Ephraim to walk, -- He took them upon his arms, -- but they knew not that I healed them.


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I drew them with bands of a man, with cords of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I gently caused them to eat.


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He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king; for they refused to return [to me];


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and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.


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Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth [him].


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How shall I give thee over, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.


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I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am ùGod, and not man, -- the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not come in anger.


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They shall walk after Jehovah; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the children shall hasten from the west:


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they shall hasten as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will cause them to dwell in their houses, saith Jehovah.


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Ephraim encompasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet walketh with ùGod, and with the holy things of truth.


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Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth after the east wind: all day long he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.


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Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and he will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.


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Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,


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And Ephraim saith, Nevertheless I am become rich, I have found me out substance; in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.


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But I [that am] Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt will again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.


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And I have spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by means of the prophets have I used similitudes.


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If Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.


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And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].


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Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly; and his Lord shall leave his blood upon him, and recompense unto him his reproach.


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When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel: but he trespassed through Baal, and he died.


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And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.


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Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the lattice.


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Yet I [am] Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou hast known no God but me; and there is no saviour besides me.


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According to their pasture, they became full; they became full, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.


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I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her [whelps], and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them.


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Where then is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? --


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The pangs of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is a son not wise; for at the time of the breaking forth of children, he was not there.


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I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death: where, O death, are thy plagues? where, O Sheol, is thy destruction? Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.


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Though he be fruitful among [his] brethren, an east wind shall come, a wind of Jehovah [that] cometh up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.


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Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips.


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Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Thou art] our God; because in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.


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I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.


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They shall return and sit under his shadow; they shall revive [as] corn, and blossom as the vine: the renown thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.


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Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? (I answer [him], and I will observe him.) I am like a green fir-tree. -- From me is thy fruit found.


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Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?  intelligent, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the  transgressors shall fall therein.


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Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?


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Tell your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation:


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that which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.


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Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.


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For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a lioness.


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He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white.


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The oblation and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.


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The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.


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Be ashamed, ye husbandmen; howl, ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley: because the harvest of the field hath perished.


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The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm also and the apple-tree; all the trees of the field are withered, yea, joy is withered away from the children of men.


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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.


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Hallow a fast, proclaim a solemn assembly, gather the elders, [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.


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The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.


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How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering.


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To thee, Jehovah, do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned up all the trees of the field.


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The beasts of the field also cry unto thee; for the water-courses are dried, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.


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Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand;


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a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; -- a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, to the years of generations and generations.


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A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth; the land is as a garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness: yea, and nothing escapeth them.


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Like the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains, they leap; like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.


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They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and break not their ranks.


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Neither doth one press upon another; they march every one in his path; and fall amid weapons, but are not wounded.


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They spread themselves over the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in by the windows like a thief.


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And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for strong is he that executeth his word: for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can bear it?


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Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;


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and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto Jehovah your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.


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Who knoweth? He might return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, an oblation and a drink-offering for Jehovah your God?


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gather the people, hallow the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride from her closet.


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Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and give not thine inheritance to reproach, that they should be a byword of the nations. Wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?


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And Jehovah will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I send you corn, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.


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And I will remove far off from you him [that cometh] from the north, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the hinder sea; and his stench shall come up, and his ill odour shall come up, for he hath exalted himself to do great things.


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Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring; for the tree beareth its fruit; the fig-tree and the vine yield full increase.


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And ye, children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the early rain in due measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the early rain, and the latter rain at the beginning [of the season].


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And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.


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And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of Jehovah your God, who hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.


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And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I, Jehovah, [am] your God, and there is none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.


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And it shall come to pass afterwards [that] I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.


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The sun shall be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.


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And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of Jehovah shall be saved: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as Jehovah hath said, and for the residue whom Jehovah shall call.


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For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall turn again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,


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I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land;


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and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk [it].


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Yea also, what have ye to do with me, O Tyre and Zidon, and all the districts of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompence? But if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I bring your recompence upon your own head;


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because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,


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and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.


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Behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will bring your recompence upon your own head.


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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken.


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Proclaim this among the nations: prepare war, arouse the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.


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Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.


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Haste ye and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together. Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.


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Let the nations rouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.


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Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down, for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.


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Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Jehovah is at hand in the valley of decision.


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And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: and Jehovah will be a shelter for his people, and the refuge of the children of Israel.


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And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, [am] your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; and Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the water-courses of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim.


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Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, in that they have shed innocent blood in their land.


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And I will purge them from the blood from which I had not purged them: for Jehovah dwelleth in Zion.


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The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.


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And he said, Jehovah roareth from Zion, and uttereth his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withereth.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke [my sentence], because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.


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And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Beth-Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gazah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver [them] up to Edom.


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And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord Jehovah.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity; and his anger did tear continually, and he kept his wrath for ever.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.


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And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.


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And I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerijoth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, [and] with the sound of the trumpet.


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And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked.


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Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;


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panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name.


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And they lay [themselves] down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink [in] the house of their God the wine of the condemned.


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But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.


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And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.


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And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.


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And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul.


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Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and the swift of foot shall not escape, and he that rideth the horse shall not deliver his soul;


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Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,


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You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.


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Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den if he have taken nothing?


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Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth when no gin [is laid] for him? Will the snare spring up from the earth when nothing at all hath been taken?


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Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and Jehovah not have done [it]?


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Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great uproar in the midst thereof, and the oppressions that are within her:


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Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An adversary! -- even round about the land! And he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be pillaged.


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Thus saith Jehovah: Like as the shepherd rescueth out of the jaw of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and upon the damask of a bed.


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that in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also punish the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.


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And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall have an end, saith Jehovah.


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Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink:


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the Lord Jehovah hath sworn by his holiness, that behold, days shall come upon you, when he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks;


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and ye shall go out by the breaches, every one straight before her, and ye shall be cast out to Harmon, saith Jehovah.


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Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes every three days,


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and burn a thank-offering with leaven, and proclaim, publish, voluntary offerings: for this pleaseth you, children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.


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And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet ye have not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.


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And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece [of land] was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.


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And two, three, cities wandered unto one city, to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.


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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the palmer-worm hath devoured the multitude of your gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig-trees and your olive-trees: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.


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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, taking away captive your horses; and I made the stench of your camps to come up, even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.


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I have overthrown among you, like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.


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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.


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For behold, he who formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, who maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, -- Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.


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The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more arise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.


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For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, for the house of Israel.


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And seek not Bethel, neither go to Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.


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Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it], and there be none to quench [it] in Bethel.


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[seek him] that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.


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He causeth destruction to break forth suddenly upon the strong, and bringeth destruction upon the fortress.


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Forasmuch, therefore, as ye trample upon the poor, and take from him presents of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, and ye shall not drink the wine of them.


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For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside [the right of] the needy in the gate.


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Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say.


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Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.


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Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.


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Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! To what end is the day of Jehovah for you? It shall be darkness and not light:


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as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.


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For if ye offer up unto me burnt-offerings and your oblations, I will not accept [them]; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fatted beasts.


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Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to yourselves;


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and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.


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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the renowned of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come.


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Pass unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go to Hamath the great; and go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?


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that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall;


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that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but are not grieved for the breach of Joseph.


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Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.


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The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces; and I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.


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And a man's uncle, and he that should burn him, shall take him up to bring out the bones from the house, and shall say unto him that is in the inner parts of the house, Is there yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, None. And he will say, Silence! for we may not make mention of Jehovah's name.


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For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.


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Shall horses run upon the rock? will [men] plough [thereon] with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,


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-- ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us power by our own strength?


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For behold, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah the God of hosts, I will raise up against you a nation; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hamath unto the torrent of the Arabah.


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Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.


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And it came to pass, when they had wholly eaten the grass of the land, that I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.


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Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and ate up the inheritance.


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Thus did he shew unto me; and behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.


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And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. And the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.


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And the high places of Isaac shall be desolated, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will arise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.


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Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.


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For thus Amos saith: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall certainly go into captivity out of his land.


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And Amaziah said unto Amos, [Thou] seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.


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But prophesy not again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.


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And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit.


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And Jehovah took me as I followed the flock, and Jehovah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.


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And now hear thou the word of Jehovah: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and utter not [words] against the house of Isaac.


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Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided with the line; and thou shalt die in a land that is unclean; and Israel shall certainly go into captivity, out of his land.


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And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer-fruit. And Jehovah said unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.


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And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!


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saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances for deceit:


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that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.


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Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? And it shall wholly rise up like the Nile; and it shall surge and sink down, as the river of Egypt.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the land in the clear day.


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And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.


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Behold, days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.


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And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.


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they that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, [As] thy god, O Dan, liveth! and, [As] the way of Beer-sheba liveth! even they shall fall, and never rise up again.


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I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and he said, Smite the chapiter that the thresholds may shake; and break all of them in pieces, in the head; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not get away by flight, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.


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Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;


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and though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them;


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and though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.


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And the Lord Jehovah of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall wholly rise up like the Nile, and sink down as the river of Egypt.


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It is he that buildeth his upper chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.


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Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?


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Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth: only that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.


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For behold, I command, and I will shake the house of Israel to and fro among all the nations, like as one shaketh [corn] in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.


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All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, Evil shall not overtake nor befall us.


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In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:


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that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations upon whom my name is called, saith Jehovah who doeth this.


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Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt.


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And I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; and they shall make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


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The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom: We have heard a report from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among the nations. Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.


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The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; -- he that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?


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Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah.


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If thieves had come to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen [till] they had had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left some gleanings?


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All the men of thy confederacy have pushed thee to the border; the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, they have prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a snare under thee. There is no understanding in him.


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Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.


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In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.


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But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor have opened wide thy mouth in the day of distress.


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Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity, nor have looked, even thou, on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither shouldest thou have laid [hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity;


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and thou shouldest not have stood on the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape, nor have delivered up those remaining of him in the day of distress.


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For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy recompence shall return upon thine own head.


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For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.


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But upon mount Zion shall there be deliverance, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.


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And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble; and they shall kindle in them and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau: for Jehovah hath spoken [it].


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And [they of] the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the lowland the Philistines; yea, they shall possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead;


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and the captives of this host of the children of Israel [shall possess] what belonged to the Canaanites, unto Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who [were] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.


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And saviours shall come up on mount Zion, to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah's.


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Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.


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But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish, from the presence of Jehovah.


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But Jehovah sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest upon the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.


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And the mariners were afraid, and cried every one unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to be lightened of them. But Jonah had gone down into the lower part of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.


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And the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, sleeper? arise, call upon thy God; perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not.


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And they said each one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.


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And they said unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose  cause this evil is upon us: what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?


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And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear Jehovah, the God of the heavens, who hath made the sea and the dry [land].


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Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, What is this thou hast done? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of Jehovah: for he had told them.


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And they said unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.


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And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into  the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that because of me this great tempest is upon you.


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But the men rowed hard to regain the land; but they could not; for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.


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And they cried unto Jehovah and said, Ah, Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.


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And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.


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and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah,  and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.


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For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the  seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.


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The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head.


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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the  earth [closed] upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.


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When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple.


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And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.


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And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!


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And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.


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And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.


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And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let  neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;


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and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.


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Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?


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And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did [it] not.


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And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious ùGod, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.


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And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.


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And Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.


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And Jehovah Elohim prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his trouble. And Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.


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And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.


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And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, unto death.


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And Jehovah said, Thou hast pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:


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and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?


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The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.


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Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple!


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For behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.


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And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.


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For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. Whence is the transgression of Jacob? is it not [from] Samaria? And whence are the high places of Judah? are they not [from] Jerusalem?


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Therefore will I make Samaria as a heap of the field, as plantings of a vineyard; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will lay bare the foundations thereof.


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And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her harlot-gifts shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I make a desolation; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered [them], and to a harlot's hire shall they return.


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For this will I lament, and I will howl; I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.


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For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah, it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.


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Pass away, inhabitress of Shaphir, in nakedness [and] shame. The inhabitress of Zaanan is not come forth for the lamentation of Beth-ezel: he will take from you its shelter.


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For the inhabitress of Maroth waited anxiously for good; but evil hath come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.


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Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitress of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.


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Therefore shalt thou give parting-gifts to Moresheth-Gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.


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I will yet bring unto thee an heir, O inhabitress of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.


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Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delights; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee.


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Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.


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And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.


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Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye walk haughtily: for it is an evil time.


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In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious.


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Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the measuring line upon a lot, in the congregation of Jehovah.


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O thou [that art] named the house of Jacob, Is Jehovah impatient? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?


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But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip off the mantle with the garment from them that pass by securely, that are averse from war.


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The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever.


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Arise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place, because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction.


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If a man walking in wind and falsehood do lie, [saying,] I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall be the prophet of this people.


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I will surely assemble, O Jacob, the whole of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude of] men.


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One that breaketh through is gone up before them: they have broken forth, and have passed on to the gate, and are gone out by it; and their king passeth on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.


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And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?


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Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;


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and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.


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Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.


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Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that cause my people to err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against him:


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therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.


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And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no answer of God.


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But truly I am filled with power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and with judgment and with might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.


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Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity,


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The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.


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Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.


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But it shall come to pass in the end of days [that] the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and the peoples shall flow unto it.


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And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and Jehovah's word from Jerusalem.


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And he shall judge among many peoples, and reprove strong nations, even afar off; and they shall forge their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-knives: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.


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And they shall sit every one under his vine, and under his fig-tree; and there shall be none to make [them] afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken [it].


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For all the peoples will walk every one in the name of his god; but we will walk in the name of Jehovah, our God for ever and ever.


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In that day, saith Jehovah, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;


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and I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation; and Jehovah shall reign over them in mount Zion, from henceforth even for ever.


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And thou, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, yea, the first dominion shall come, -- the kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.


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Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have seized thee as a woman in travail?


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Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon: there shalt thou be delivered; there Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.


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And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be profaned, and let our eye look upon Zion.


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But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them together as the sheaves into the threshing-floor.


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Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.


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Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops; he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.


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(And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me [who is] to be Ruler in Israel: whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.)


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Therefore will he give them up, until the time when she which travaileth shall have brought forth: and the residue of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.


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And he shall stand and feed [his flock] in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God. And they shall abide; for now shall he be great even unto the ends of the earth.


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And this [man] shall be Peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight princes of men.


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And they shall waste the land of Asshur with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof; and he shall deliver [us] from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, neither waiteth for the sons of men.


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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots.


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Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more bow down to the work of thy hands.


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Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.


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Hear, ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye, unchanging foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.


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My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteousness of Jehovah.


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Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?


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Will Jehovah take pleasure in thousands of rams, in ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


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He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?


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Jehovah's voice crieth unto the city, and wisdom looketh on thy name. Hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.


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Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [which is] abominable?


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For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.


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Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee; I will make [thee] desolate because of thy sins.


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Thou shalt eat, and not be satisfied, and thine emptiness [shall remain] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take away, and not save; and what thou savest will I give up to the sword.


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Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and new wine, but shalt not drink wine.


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For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and ye walk in their counsels: that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.


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Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer-fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; there is no early fruit [which] my soul desired.


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The godly [man] hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.


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Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge [is there] for a reward; and the great [man] uttereth his soul's greed: and [together] they combine it.


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The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, [worse] than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.


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Believe ye not in a companion, put not confidence in a familiar friend: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.


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For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: a man's enemies are the men of his own household.


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Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: though I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah shall be a light unto me.


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I will bear the indignation of Jehovah -- for I have sinned against him -- until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light; I shall behold his righteousness.


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And mine enemy shall see [it], and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall behold her; now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets.


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In that day they shall come to thee from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.


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Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine inheritance, dwelling alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.


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-- The nations shall see, and be ashamed for all their might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf.


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They shall lick dust like the serpent; like crawling things of the earth, they shall come trembling forth from their close places. They shall turn with fear to Jehovah our God, and shall be afraid because of thee.


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Who is a ùGod like unto thee, that forgiveth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in loving-kindness.


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He will yet again have compassion on us, he will tread under foot our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.


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Thou wilt perform truth to Jacob, loving-kindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers, from the days of old.


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A jealous and avenging ùGod is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.


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Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear [the guilty]: Jehovah, -- his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.


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He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.


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The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.


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Who shall stand before his indignation? and who shall abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.


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But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.


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What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time.


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Though they be tangled together [as] thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.


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Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be complete in number, and many as they be, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away; and though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.


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And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy god will I cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare thy grave; for thou art vile.


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Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth peace! Celebrate thy feasts, Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.


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He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thy face: keep the fortress, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.


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For Jehovah hath brought again the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel; for the wasters have wasted them, and marred their vine-branches.


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The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots [glitter] with the sheen of steel, in the day of his preparation, and the spears are brandished.


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The chariots rush madly in the streets, they justle one against another in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches, they run like lightnings.


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He bethinketh him of his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the shelter is prepared.


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And it is decreed: she shall be uncovered, she shall be led away, and her maids shall moan as with the voice of doves, drumming upon their breasts.


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Nineveh hath been like a pool of water, since the day she existed, yet they flee away. ... Stand! Stand! But none looketh back.


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Plunder the silver, plunder the gold; for there is no end of the splendid store of all precious vessels.


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She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all loins, and all their faces grow pale.


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Where is [now] the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion, the lioness, [and] the lion's whelp walked, and none made them afraid?


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The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.


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Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts: and I will burn her chariots into smoke; and the sword shall devour thy young lions, and I will cut off thy prey from the earth; and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.


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The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!


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The horseman springing up, and the glitter of the sword, and the flash of the spear, and a multitude of slain, and a mass of carcases, and no end of corpses: they stumble over their corpses.


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-- Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth nations through her fornications, and families through her sorceries,


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behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts; and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.


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And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that see thee shall flee from thee, and shall say, Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?


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Art thou better than No-Amon, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about her, whose rampart was the sea, [and] of the sea was her wall?


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She too was carried away, she went into captivity: her infants also were dashed in pieces, at the top of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound with chains.


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All thy strongholds are [like] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they even fall into the mouth of the eater.


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Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are [as] women: the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies; the fire devoureth thy bars.


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Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.


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There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust.


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Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.


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Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.


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Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles lie still; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.


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There is no healing of thy breach; thy wound is grievous; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?


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Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.


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Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.


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Therefore the law is powerless, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked encompasseth the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted.


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See ye among the nations, and behold, and wonder marvellously; for [I] work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be declared [to you].


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For behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and impetuous nation, which marcheth through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.


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And their horses are swifter than the leopards, and are more agile than the evening wolves; and their horsemen prance proudly, and their horsemen come from afar: they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.


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They come all of them for violence: the crowd of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.


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Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a scorn unto him; he derideth every stronghold: for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.


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Then will his mind change, and he will pass on, and become guilty: this his power is become his +god.


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-- Art thou not from everlasting, Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast appointed him for correction.


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[Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a [man] more righteous than he?


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He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:


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therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; for by them his portion is become fat, and his meat dainty.


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I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer as to my reproof.


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And Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision, and engrave it upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.


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For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but it hasteth to the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; for it will surely come, it will not delay.


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And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.


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Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? -- and to him that loadeth himself with pledges!


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Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and they awake up that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?


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Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall plunder thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence [done] to the land, to the city, and all that dwell therein.


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Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil!


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Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.


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Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?


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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea.


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Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, -- that pourest out thy flask, and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!


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Thou art filled with shame instead of glory; drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of Jehovah's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and a shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.


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For the violence [done] to Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of beasts which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence [done] to the land, to the city, and all that dwell therein.


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What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?


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Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall it teach? Behold it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.


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Jehovah, I heard the report of thee, [and] I feared. Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make [it] known: In wrath remember mercy!


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+God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covereth the heavens, And the earth is full of his praise.


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And [his] brightness was as the light; Rays [came forth] from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.


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He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and discomfited the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered, The everlasting hills gave way: His ways are everlasting.


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Was Jehovah wrathful with the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers? Was thy rage against the sea, That thou didst ride upon thy horses, Thy chariots of salvation?


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Thy bow was made naked, The rods [of discipline] sworn according to [thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.


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The mountains saw thee, they were in travail: Torrents of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, Lifted up its hands on high.


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The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows which shot forth, -- At the shining of thy glittering spear.


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Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou didst smite off the head from the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah.


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Thou didst strike through with his own spears the head of his leaders: They came out as a whirlwind to scatter me, Whose exulting was as to devour the afflicted secretly.


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I heard, and my belly trembled; My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place, That I might rest in the day of distress, When their invader shall come up against the people.


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For though the fig-tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive-tree shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:


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Jehovah, the Lord, is my strength, And he maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], And he will make me to walk upon my high places. To the chief Musician. On my stringed instruments.


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The word of Jehovah that came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.


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I will take away man and beast; I will take away the fowl of the heavens and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked, and I will cut off mankind from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah.


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And I will stretch forth my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of the Chemarim with the priests;


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and them that bow down to the host of the heavens upon the housetops; and them that bow down to Jehovah, that swear by [him], and swear by Malcham;


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Be silent at the presence of the Lord Jehovah; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; for Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath hallowed his guests.


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And in that day will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.


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And in that day, saith Jehovah, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish-gate, and a howling from the second [quarter], and a great crashing from the hills.


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Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh; for all the people of Canaan are cut down, all they that are laden with silver are cut off.


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And it shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil.


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And their wealth shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation; and they shall build houses, and not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and not drink the wine thereof.


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The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly. The voice of the day of Jehovah: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.


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That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of ruin and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness,


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And I will bring distress upon men, and they shall walk like blind men; for they have sinned against Jehovah; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung:


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their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for a full end, yea, a sudden [end], shall he make of all them that dwell in the land.


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before the decree bring forth, [before] the day pass away as chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you, before the day of Jehovah's anger come upon you.


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Seek Jehovah, all ye meek of the land, who have performed his ordinance; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.


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For Gazah shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.


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Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant;


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And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for Jehovah their God shall visit them, and turn again their captivity.


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Therefore, [as] I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall certainly be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation; the remnant of my people shall spoil them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.


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Jehovah will be terrible unto them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and all the isles of the nations shall worship him, every one from his place.


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And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, a place of drought like the wilderness.


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And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the crowd of beasts; both the pelican and the bittern shall lodge in the chapiters thereof; a voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be on the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar work.


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This is the rejoicing city that dwelt in security, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none else beside me: how is she become a desolation, a couching-place for beasts! Every one that passeth by her shall hiss, shall wave his hand.


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She hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she confided not in Jehovah; she drew not near her God.


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Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that leave nothing for the morning.


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Her prophets are vain-glorious, treacherous persons; her priests profane the sanctuary, they do violence to the law.


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The righteous Jehovah is in the midst of her: he doeth no wrong. Every morning doth he bring his judgment to light; it faileth not: but the unrighteous knoweth no shame.


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I have cut off nations: their battlements are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.


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I said, Only fear me, receive correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off, howsoever I may punish her. But they rose early, they corrupted all their doings.


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Therefore wait ye for me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to assemble the nations, that I may gather the kingdoms together, to pour upon them mine indignation, -- all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.


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For then will I turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him with one consent.


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From beyond the rivers of Cush my suppliants, the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine oblation.


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In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings wherein thou hast transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that exult in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.


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And I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of Jehovah.


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The remnant of Israel shall not work unrighteousness, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: but *they* shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.


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Exult, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; rejoice and be glad with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem:


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Jehovah hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy; the King of Israel, Jehovah, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not see evil any more.


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Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a mighty one that will save: he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will exult over thee with singing.


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I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn assemblies, who were of thee: the reproach of it was a burden [unto them].


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Behold, at that time I will deal with all them that afflict thee; and I will save her that halted, and gather her that was driven out; and I will make them a praise and a name in all the lands where they have been put to shame.


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At that time will I bring you, yea, at the time that I gather you; for I will make you a name and a praise, among all the peoples of the earth, when I shall turn again your captivity before your eyes, saith Jehovah.


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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,


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Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that Jehovah's house should be built.


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Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.


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Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.


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Ye looked for much, and behold it was little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Wherefore? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, whilst ye run every man to his own house.


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And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon man, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.


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And Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, according as Jehovah their God had sent him, and the people feared before Jehovah.


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Then spoke Haggai, Jehovah's messenger, in Jehovah's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.


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And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked at the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,


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In the seventh [month], on the one and twentieth [day] of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai, saying,


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Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? and how do ye see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?


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But now be strong, Zerubbabel, saith Jehovah; and be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith Jehovah, and work: for I am with you, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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The word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, and my Spirit, remain among you: fear ye not.


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For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land];


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and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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On the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth [month], in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,


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If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food -- shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.


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And Haggai said, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, is it become unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.


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Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah, and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.


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And now, I pray you, consider from this day and onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah,


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-- before those [days] were, when one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten; when one came to the vat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty.


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I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye [turned] not to me, saith Jehovah.


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Consider, I pray you, from this day and onward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider [it].


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Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you].


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And the word of Jehovah came the second time unto Haggai on the four and twentieth [day] of the month, saying,


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and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride therein; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.


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In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, will I take thee, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant, saith Jehovah, and will make thee as a signet; for I have chosen thee, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,


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And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings; but they did not hearken nor attend unto me, saith Jehovah.


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But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.


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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying,


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I saw by night, and behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the low valley; and behind him were red, bay, and white horses.


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And I said, My lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these are.


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And they answered the angel of Jehovah that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth sitteth still and is at rest.


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And the angel of Jehovah answered and said, Jehovah of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years?


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And the angel that talked with me said unto me, Cry, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy,


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and I am wroth exceedingly with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little wroth, and they helped forward the affliction.


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Therefore thus saith Jehovah: I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith Jehovah of hosts, and the line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.


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Cry further, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity, and Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.


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And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.


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And I said, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, Those are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these are come to affright them, to cast out the horns of the nations, which lifted up the horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.


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And I said, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.


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and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein;


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and I, saith Jehovah, I will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.


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Ho, ho! flee from the land of the north, saith Jehovah; for I have scattered you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, saith Jehovah.


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For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After the glory, hath he sent me unto the nations that made you a spoil; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.


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For behold, I will shake my hand upon them, and they shall become a spoil to those that served them: and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.


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Sing aloud and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.


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And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be unto me for a people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto thee.


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And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.


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And Jehovah said unto Satan, Jehovah rebuke thee, O Satan! Yea, Jehovah that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee! Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?


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And he spoke and said unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from off him. And unto him he said, See, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I clothe thee with festival-robes.


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And I said, Let them set a pure turban upon his head. And they set the pure turban upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the Angel of Jehovah stood by.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts; and I will give thee a place to walk among these that stand by.


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Hear now, Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee -- for they are men of portent -- for behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.


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For behold, the stone that I have laid before Joshua -- upon one stone are seven eyes; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in one day.


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In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall ye invite every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig-tree.


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And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I see, and behold, a lamp-stand all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon, seven [lamps] and seven pipes to the lamps, which are upon the top thereof;


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And the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord.


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And he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel [thou dost become] a plain; and he shall bring forth the head-stone with shoutings: Grace, grace unto it!


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The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; and his hands shall finish it: and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you.


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For who hath despised the day of small things? Yea, they shall rejoice [even] those seven -- and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel: these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro in the whole earth.


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And I answered and said unto him, What are these two olive-trees on the right of the lamp-stand and on its left?


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And I answered the second time and said unto him, What are the two olive-branches which are beside the two golden tubes that empty the gold out of themselves?


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And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I see a flying roll: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.


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And he said unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off according to it on this side; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off according to it on that side.


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I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall lodge in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.


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And the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.


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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. And he said, This is their resemblance in all the land.


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And behold, there was lifted up a round plate of lead; and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.


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And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.


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And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.


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And he said unto me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar; and it shall be established, and set there upon its own base.


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And I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw, and behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.


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And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.


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That in which are the black horses goeth forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth towards the south country;


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and the strong go forth, and seek to go that they may walk to and fro through the earth. And he said, Go, walk to and fro through the earth. And they walked to and fro through the earth.


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And he cried unto me, and spoke unto me, saying, See, these that go forth towards the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.


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Take [gifts] of them of the captivity, of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, and come thou the same day, and enter into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, whither they are come from Babylon;


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yea, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set [them] upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;


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and speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold a man whose name is [the] Branch; and he shall grow up from his own place, and he shall build the temple of Jehovah:


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And the crowns shall be for Helem, and for Tobijah, and for Jedaiah, and for Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah.


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And they that are far off shall come and build at the temple of Jehovah: and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God.


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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah on the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in Chislev,


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[and] to speak unto the priests that were in the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done now so many years?


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Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye really fast unto me, [even] unto me?


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Are not these the words that Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at peace, and her cities round about her, when the south and the lowland were inhabited?


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Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew loving-kindness and mercies one to another,


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and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.


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But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.


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And they made their heart [as] an adamant, that they should not hear the law, and the words that Jehovah of hosts sent by his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets: therefore was there great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.


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And it came to pass, like as he called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, saith Jehovah of hosts;


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and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not, and the land was desolate after them, so that no one passed through nor returned; and they laid the pleasant land desolate.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great fury.


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Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called, The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each one with his staff in his hand for multitude of days.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be wonderful in mine eyes? saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country;


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, that were in the day that the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.


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For before those days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; and there was no peace for him that went out or that came in, because of the distress: for I let loose all men, every one against his neighbour.


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But now I will not be unto the remnant of this people as in the former days, saith Jehovah of hosts;


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for the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these [things].


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And it shall come to pass, like as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear ye not, let your hands be strong.


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For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Like as I thought to do you evil when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I repented not;


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These are the things that ye shall do: Speak truth every one with his neighbour; execute truth and the judgment of peace in your gates;


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and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are [things] that I hate, saith Jehovah.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The fast of the fourth [month] and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful gatherings. Love ye then truth and peace.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there come peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities;


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and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to supplicate Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of hosts: I will go also.


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And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to supplicate Jehovah.


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Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days shall ten men take hold, out of all languages of the nations, shall even take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you; for we have heard [that] God is with you.


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The burden of the word of Jehovah, in the land of Hadrach, and [on] Damascus shall it rest; (for Jehovah hath an eye upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel;)


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And Tyre hath built herself a stronghold, and hath heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.


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Behold, the Lord will take possession of her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.


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Ashkelon shall see [it], and fear; Gazah also, and she shall be greatly pained; Ekron also, for her expectation shall be put to shame: and the king shall perish from Gazah, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.


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and I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; but he that remaineth, he also shall belong to our God, and shall be as a leader in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.


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And I will encamp about my house because of the army, because of those that pass by and that return; and the exactor shall not pass through them any more: for now have I seen [it] with mine eyes.


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Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion; shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, thy King cometh to thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly and rIding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.


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And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle-bow shall be cut off. And he shall speak peace unto the nations; and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.


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As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I will send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.


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Turn again to the stronghold, prisoners of hope! even to-day do I declare I will render double unto thee.


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For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will raise up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and make thee like the sword of a mighty man.


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And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will march with whirlwinds of the south.


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Jehovah of hosts will defend them; and they shall devour, and shall tread down the sling-stones; and they shall drink, [and] make a noise as from wine; and they shall be filled like a bowl, like the corners of the altar.


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And Jehovah their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people; for [they shall be as] the stones of a crown, lifted up upon his land.


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For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Corn shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.


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Ask of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain; Jehovah will make lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.


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For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams: they comfort in vain. Therefore they have gone away as a flock, they are in distress, because there is no shepherd.


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Mine anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats; for Jehovah of hosts visiteth his flock, the house of Judah, and maketh them as his majestic horse in the battle.


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From him shall come forth the corner-stone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every exactor together.


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And they shall be as mighty men, treading down the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, for Jehovah is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.


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And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back again; for I will have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Jehovah their God, and I will answer them.


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And [they of] Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their hearts shall rejoice as through wine; and their children shall see [it], and rejoice; their heart shall be joyful in Jehovah.


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I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall multiply as they used to multiply.


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And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children and return.


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And I will bring them again out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found for them.


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And he shall pass through the sea of affliction, and shall smite the billows in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.


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Howl, cypress, for the cedar is fallen; because the noble ones are spoiled. Howl, ye oaks of Bashan; for the strong forest is come down.


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A voice of howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.


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whose possessors slay them without being held guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah! for I am become rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.


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For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah, and behold, I will deliver men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.


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So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.


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And I destroyed three shepherds in one month; and my soul was vexed with them, and their soul also loathed me.


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And I said, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and that which perisheth let it perish; and let them which are left eat every one the flesh of another.


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And I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.


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And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock that gave heed to me knew that it was the word of Jehovah.


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And I said unto them, If ye think good, give [me] my hire; and if not, forbear. And they weighed for my hire thirty silver-pieces.


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And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty silver-pieces, and cast them to the potter in the house of Jehovah.


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For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit those that are about to perish, neither shall seek that which is strayed away, nor heal that which is wounded, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their hoofs in pieces.


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Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye utterly darkened.


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The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. [Thus] saith Jehovah, who stretcheth out the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:


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Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of bewilderment unto all the peoples round about, and also against Judah shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone unto all peoples: all that burden themselves with it shall certainly be wounded, and all the nations of the earth shall be assembled together against it.


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In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness; but I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.


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And the leaders of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength through Jehovah of hosts their God.


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In that day will I make the leaders of Judah like a hearth of fire among wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem shall dwell again in her own place, in Jerusalem.


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And Jehovah shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified over Judah.


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In that day will Jehovah defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that stumbleth among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David as God, as the Angel of Jehovah before them.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.


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And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.


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In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


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And the land shall mourn, every family apart: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;


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the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;


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In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, [that] I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.


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And it shall come to pass, if any shall yet prophesy, that his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive.


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And he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for man acquired me [as bondman] from my youth.


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And one shall say unto him, What are those wounds in thy hands? And he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.


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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, even against the man [that is] my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.


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And it shall come to pass in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off [and] die; but the third shall be left therein.


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And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.


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And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity; and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


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And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem toward the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, -- a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.


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And ye shall flee [by] the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: ye shall even flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And Jehovah my God shall come, [and] all the holy ones with thee.


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And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] there shall not be light; the shining shall be obscured.


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And it shall be one day which is known to Jehovah, not day, and not night; and it shall come to pass, at eventide it shall be light.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.


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And Jehovah shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Jehovah, and his name one.


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All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem shall be turned as the Arabah; and [Jerusalem] shall be lifted up, and shall dwell in her own place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner-gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.


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And [men] shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; and Jerusalem shall dwell safely.


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And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.


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And it shall come to pass in that day [that] a great panic from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.


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And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together -- gold, and silver, and garments, in great abundance.


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And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in those camps, as this plague.


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And it shall come to pass, that all that are left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.


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And it shall be, that whoso goeth not up of the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them shall be no rain.


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And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, neither [shall it be] upon them; [there] shall be the plague, wherewith Jehovah will smite the nations that go not up to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.


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This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.


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In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO JEHOVAH; and the pots in Jehovah's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.


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And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto Jehovah of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein. And in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.


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I have loved you, saith Jehovah; but ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah, and I loved Jacob,


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and I hated Esau; and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.


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If Edom say, We are broken down, but we will build again the ruined places, -- thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down; and [men] shall call them the territory of wickedness, and the people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.


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A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?


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Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.


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And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Present it now unto thy governor: will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith Jehovah of hosts.


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And now, I pray you, beseech ùGod that he will be gracious unto us. This hath been of your hand: will he accept any of your persons? saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Who is there among you that would even shut the doors? and ye would not kindle [fire] on mine altar for nothing. I have no delight in you, saith Jehovah of hosts, neither will I accept an oblation at your hand.


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For from the rising of the sun even unto its setting my name shall be great among the nations; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure oblation: for my name shall be great among the nations, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, his food, is contemptible.


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And ye say, Behold, what a weariness! And ye have puffed at it, saith Jehovah of hosts, and ye bring [that which was] torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye bring the oblation: should I accept this of your hand? saith Jehovah.


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Yea, cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing; for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is terrible among the nations.


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If ye do not hear, and if ye do not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will even send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have already cursed them, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.


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Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts; and they shall take you away with it.


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And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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My covenant with him was of life and peace, and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and trembled before my name.


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The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.


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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and at his mouth they seek the law; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.


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But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in [administering] the law.


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Have we not all one father? Hath not one ùGod created us? Why do we deal unfaithfully every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?


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Judah hath dealt unfaithfully, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the sanctuary of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange ùgod.


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Jehovah will cut off from the tents of Jacob the man that doeth this, him that calleth and him that answereth; and him that offereth an oblation unto Jehovah of hosts.


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And further ye do this: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the oblation any more, nor receiveth [it] with satisfaction at your hand.


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Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.


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And did not one make [them]? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,


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(for I hate putting away, saith Jehovah the God of Israel;) and he covereth with violence his garment, saith Jehovah of hosts: take heed then to your spirit, that ye deal not unfaithfully.


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Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, and ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?


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Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord whom ye seek will suddenly come to his temple, and the Angel of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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But who shall endure the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? For he will be like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' lye.


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And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver; and he will purify the children of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah an oblation in righteousness.


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Then shall the oblation of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto Jehovah, as in the days of old, and as in former years.


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And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in [his] wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Since the days of your fathers have ye departed from my statutes, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?


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Will a man rob God? But ye rob me. And ye say, Wherein do we rob thee? [In] tithes and heave-offerings.


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Bring the whole tithe into the treasure-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I open not to you the windows of the heavens, and pour you out a blessing, till there be no place for it.


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Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee?


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Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?


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And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.


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Then they that feared Jehovah spoke often one to another; and Jehovah observed [it], and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.


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And they shall be unto me a peculiar treasure, saith Jehovah of hosts, in the day that I prepare; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.


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And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.


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For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.


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And unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and leap like fatted calves.


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And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I prepare, saith Jehovah of hosts.


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Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and ordinances.


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Behold, I send unto you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and terrible day of Jehovah.


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And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.


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All the generations, therefore, from Abraham to David [were] fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the carrying away of Babylon unto the Christ, fourteen generations.


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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was thus: His mother, Mary, that is, having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child of [the] Holy Spirit.


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But Joseph, her husband, being [a] righteous [man], and unwilling to expose her publicly, purposed to have put her away secretly;


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but while he pondered on these things, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to take to [thee] Mary, thy wife, for that which is begotten in her is of [the] Holy Spirit.


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And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for *he* shall save his people from their sins.


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Now all this came to pass that that might be fulfilled which was spoken by [the] Lord, through the prophet, saying,


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Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, 'God with us.'


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But Joseph, having awoke up from his sleep, did as the angel of [the] Lord had enjoined him, and took to [him] his wife,


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Now Jesus having been born in Bethlehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, behold magi from the east arrived at Jerusalem, saying,


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Where is the king of the Jews that has been born? for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to do him homage.


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and, assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.


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And *thou* Bethlehem, land of Juda, art in no wise the least among the governors of Juda; for out of thee shall go forth a leader who shall shepherd my people Israel.


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Then Herod, having secretly called the magi, inquired of them accurately the time of the star that was appearing;


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and having sent them to Bethlehem, said, Go, search out accurately concerning the child, and when ye shall have found [him] bring me back word, so that *I* also may come and do him homage.


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And they having heard the king went their way; and lo, the star, which they had seen in the east, went before them until it came and stood over the place where the little child was.


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And having come into the house they saw the little child with Mary his mother, and falling down did him homage. And having opened their treasures, they offered to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.


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And being divinely instructed in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.


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Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to [thee] the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it.


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And, having arisen, he took to [him] the little child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt.


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And he was there until the death of Herod, that that might be fulfilled which was spoken by [the] Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.


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Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which [were] in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.


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A voice has been heard in Rama, weeping, and great lamentation: Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.


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But Herod having died, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,


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Arise, take to [thee] the little child and its mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they who sought the life of the little child are dead.


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but having heard that 'Archelaus reigns over Judaea, instead of Herod his father,' he was afraid to go there; and having been divinely instructed in a dream, he went away into the parts of Galilee,


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and came and dwelt in a town called Nazareth; so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, He shall be called a Nazaraean.


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For this is he who has been spoken of through Esaias the prophet, saying, Voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: prepare ye the way of [the] Lord, make straight his paths.


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And John himself had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and wild honey.


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But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?


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And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for [our] father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.


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And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.


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*I* indeed baptise you with water to repentance, but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not fit to bear; *he* shall baptise you with [the] Holy Spirit and fire;


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whose winnowing fan [is] in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.


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but John urgently forbad him, saying, *I* have need to be baptised of thee; and comest *thou* to me?


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But Jesus answering said to him, Suffer [it] now; for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffers him.


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And Jesus, having been baptised, went up straightway from the water, and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him:


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and behold, a voice out of the heavens saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight.


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And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.


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But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.


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and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on [their] hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone.


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Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory,


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Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to [the] Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.


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and having left Nazareth, he went and dwelt at Capernaum, which is on the sea-side in the borders of Zabulon and Nepthalim,


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-- the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in [the] country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up.


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From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh.


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And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers;


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And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the [son] of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them;


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And [Jesus] went round the whole [of] Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people.


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And his fame went out into the whole [of] Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them.


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And great crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and beyond the Jordan.


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But seeing the crowds, he went up into the mountain, and having sat down, his disciples came to him;


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Blessed they who are persecuted on account of righteousness, for *theirs* is the kingdom of the heavens.


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Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake.


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Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


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*Ye* are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have become insipid, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for anything but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot by men.


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Nor do [men] light a lamp and put it under the bushel, but upon the lamp-stand, and it shines for all who are in the house.


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Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.


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Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.


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For verily I say unto you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all come to pass.


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Whosoever then shall do away with one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall practise and teach [them], *he* shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.


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For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass [that] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of the heavens.


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Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment.


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But *I* say unto you, that every one that is lightly angry with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; but whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be subject to [be called before] the sanhedrim; but whosoever shall say, Fool, shall be subject to the penalty of the hell of fire.


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If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee,


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leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.


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Make friends with thine adverse party quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him; lest some time the adverse party deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.


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But *I* say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.


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But if thy right eye be a snare to thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.


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And if thy right hand be a snare to thee, cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.


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But *I* say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except for cause of fornication, makes her commit adultery, and whosoever marries one that is put away commits adultery.


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Again, ye have heard that it has been said to the ancients, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt render to the Lord what thou hast sworn.


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But *I* say unto you, Do not swear at all; neither by the heaven, because it is [the] throne of God;


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nor by the earth, because it is [the] footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is [the] city of the great King.


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But *I* say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;


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But *I* say unto you, Love your enemies, [bless those who curse you,] do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who [insult you and] persecute you,


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that ye may be [the] sons of your Father who is in [the] heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.


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For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?


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And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same?


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Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.


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When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.


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And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so that they should appear to men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.


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But *thou*, when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render [it] to thee.


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But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking.


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Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg [anything] of him.


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And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, downcast in countenance; for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear fasting to men: verily I say unto you, They have their reward.


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so that thou mayest not appear fasting unto men, but to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who sees in secret shall render [it] to thee.


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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;


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but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust spoils, and where thieves do not dig through nor steal;


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but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!


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No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


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For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?


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Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are *ye* not much more excellent than they?


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And why are ye careful about clothing? Observe with attention the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin;


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But if God so clothe the herbage of the field, which is to-day, and to-morrow is cast into [the] oven, will he not much rather you, O [ye] of little faith?


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Be not therefore careful, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we put on?


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for all these things the nations seek after; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.


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But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.


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Be not careful therefore for the morrow, for the morrow shall be careful about itself. Sufficient to the day [is] its own evil.


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for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.


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But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?


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Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Allow [me], I will cast out the mote from thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine eye?


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Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye of thy brother.


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Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them with their feet, and turning round rend you.


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For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.


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Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask of him a loaf of bread, will give him a stone;


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If therefore *ye*, being wicked, know [how] to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?


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Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do *ye* also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.


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Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it.


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But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves.


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By their fruits ye shall know them. Do [men] gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?


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Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.


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Many shall say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied through *thy* name, and through *thy* name cast out demons, and through *thy* name done many works of power?


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Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;


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and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock.


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And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;


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and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.


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And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his doctrine,


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And behold, a leper came up to [him] and did him homage, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou art able to cleanse me.


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And he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, I will; be cleansed. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


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And Jesus says to him, See thou tell no man, but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses ordained, for a testimony to them.


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And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not fit that thou shouldest enter under my roof; but only speak a word, and my servant shall be healed.


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For *I* also am a man under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say to this [one], Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bondman, Do this, and he does it.


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And when Jesus heard it, he wondered, and said to those who followed, Verily I say unto you, Not even in Israel have I found so great faith.


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But I say unto you, that many shall come from [the] rising and setting [sun], and shall lie down at table with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens;


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but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.


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And Jesus said to the centurion, Go, and as thou hast believed, be it to thee. And his servant was healed in that hour.


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And when the evening was come, they brought to him many possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were ill;


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so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities and bore our diseases.


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And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven roosting-places; but the Son of man has not where he may lay his head.


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and behold, [the water] became very agitated on the sea, so that the ship was covered by the waves; but *he* slept.


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And he says to them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then, having arisen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.


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But the men were astonished, saying, What sort [of man] is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?


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And there met him, when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, two possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding dangerous, so that no one was able to pass by that way.


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And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Son of God? hast thou come here before the time to torment us?


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And he said to them, Go. And they, going out, departed into the herd of swine; and lo, the whole herd [of swine] rushed down the steep slope into the sea, and died in the waters.


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But they that fed them fled, and went away into the city and related everything, and what had happened as to those possessed by demons.


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And behold, the whole city went out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged [him] to go away out of their coasts.


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And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Be of good courage, child; thy sins are forgiven.


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But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (then he says to the paralytic,) Rise up, take up thy bed and go to thy house.


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And Jesus, passing on thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, called Matthew, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.


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And it came to pass, as he lay at table in the house, that behold, many tax-gatherers and sinners came and lay at table with Jesus and his disciples.


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And the Pharisees seeing [it], said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax-gatherers and sinners?


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But [Jesus] hearing it, said, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.


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But go and learn what [that] is -- I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous [men] but sinners.


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Then come to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but thy disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn so long as the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom will have been taken away from them, and then they will fast.


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But no one puts a patch of new cloth on an old garment, for its filling up takes from the garment and a worse rent takes place.


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Nor do men put new wine into old skins, otherwise the skins burst and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.


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As he spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler coming in did homage to him, saying, My daughter has by this died; but come and lay thy hand upon her and she shall live.


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And behold, a woman, who had had a bloody flux [for] twelve years, came behind and touched the hem of his garment;


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But Jesus turning and seeing her, said, Be of good courage, daughter; thy faith has healed thee. And the woman was healed from that hour.


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And when Jesus was come to the house of the ruler, and saw the flute-players and the crowd making a tumult,


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And as Jesus passed on thence, two blind [men] followed him, crying and saying, Have mercy on us, Son of David.


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And when he was come to the house, the blind [men] came to him. And Jesus says to them, Do ye believe that I am able to do this? They say to him, Yea, Lord.


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And the demon having been cast out, the dumb spake. And the crowds were astonished, saying, It has never been seen thus in Israel.


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And Jesus went round all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness.


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But when he saw the crowds he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed, and cast away as sheep not having a shepherd.


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And having called to [him] his twelve disciples, he gave them power over unclean spirits, so that they should cast them out, and heal every disease and every bodily weakness.


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Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother;


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Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax-gatherer; James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, who was surnamed Thaddaeus;


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These twelve Jesus sent out when he had charged them, saying, Go not off into [the] way of [the] nations, and into a city of Samaritans enter ye not;


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Heal [the] infirm, [raise the dead], cleanse lepers, cast out demons: ye have received gratuitously, give gratuitously.


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nor scrip for the way, nor two body coats, nor sandals, nor a staff: for the workman is worthy of his nourishment.


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But into whatsoever city or village ye enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and there remain till ye go forth.


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And if the house indeed be worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.


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And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.


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Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in judgment-day than for that city.


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Behold, *I* send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.


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and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.


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But when they deliver you up, be not careful how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given to you in that hour what ye shall speak.


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But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;


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and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to [the] end, *he* shall be saved.


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But when they persecute you in this city, flee to the other; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come.


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[It is] sufficient for the disciple that he should become as his teacher, and the bondman as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?


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Fear them not therefore; for there is nothing covered which shall not be revealed, and secret which shall not be known.


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What I say to you in darkness speak in the light, and what ye hear in the ear preach upon the houses.


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And be not afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.


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Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father;


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Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, *I* also will confess him before my Father who is in [the] heavens.


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But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will *I* also deny before my Father who is in [the] heavens.


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Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword.


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For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;


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He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.


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He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward.


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And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.


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Blind [men] see and lame walk; lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear; and dead are raised, and poor have glad tidings preached to them:


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But as they went [away], Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? a reed moved about by the wind?


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But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in delicate raiment? behold, those who wear delicate things are in the houses of kings.


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this is he of whom it is written, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.


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Verily I say to you, that there is not arisen among [the] born of women a greater than John the baptist. But he who is a little one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.


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But from the days of John the baptist until now, the kingdom of the heavens is taken by violence, and [the] violent seize on it.


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But to whom shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, which, calling to their companions,


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The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a man [that is] eating and wine-drinking, a friend of tax-gatherers, and of sinners: -- and wisdom has been justified by her children.


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Then began he to reproach the cities in which most of his works of power had taken place, because they had not repented.


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Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if the works of power which have taken place in you, had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they had long ago repented in sackcloth and ashes.


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And *thou*, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades. For if the works of power which have taken place in thee, had taken place in Sodom, it had remained until this day.


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But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for [the] land of Sodom in judgment-day than for thee.


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At that time, Jesus answering said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.


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All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son may be pleased to reveal [him].


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Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;


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At that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears and to eat.


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But the Pharisees, seeing [it], said to him, Behold, thy disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on sabbath.


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But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him?


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How he entered into the house of God, and ate the shewbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but for the priests only?


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Or have ye not read in the law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?


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But if ye had known what is: I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.


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And behold, there was a man having his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath? that they might accuse him.


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But he said to them, What man shall there be of you who has one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it and raise [it] up?


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Then he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched [it] out, and it was restored sound as the other.


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Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul has found its delight. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall shew forth judgment to the nations.


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a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, until he bring forth judgment unto victory;


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Then was brought to him one possessed by a demon, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so that the dumb [man] spake and saw.


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But the Pharisees, having heard [it], said, This [man] does not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub, prince of demons.


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But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not subsist.


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And if *I* cast out demons by Beelzebub, your sons, by whom do they cast [them] out? For this reason *they* shall be your judges.


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Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong [man] and plunder his goods, unless first he bind the strong [man]? and then he will plunder his house.


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For this reason I say unto you, Every sin and injurious speaking shall be forgiven to men, but speaking injuriously of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.


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And whosoever shall have spoken a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming [one].


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Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt. For from the fruit the tree is known.


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Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.


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The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings forth wicked things.


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But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:


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Then answered him some of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, Teacher, we desire to see a sign from thee.


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But he, answering, said to them, A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it save the sign of Jonas the prophet.


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For even as Jonas was in the belly of the great fish three days and three nights, thus shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.


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Ninevites shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and behold, more than Jonas [is] here.


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A queen of [the] south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, more than Solomon [is] here.


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But when the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find [it].


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Then he says, I will return to my house whence I came out; and having come, he finds [it] unoccupied, swept, and adorned.


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Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. Thus shall it be to this wicked generation also.


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But while he was yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.


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Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren are standing without, seeking to speak to thee.


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for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in [the] heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.


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And great crowds were gathered together to him, so that going on board ship himself he sat down, and the whole crowd stood on the shore.


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and others fell upon the rocky places where they had not much earth, and immediately they sprang up out of [the ground] because of not having [any] depth of earth,


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And he answering said to them, Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given;


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for whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall be caused to be in abundance; but he who has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him.


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For this cause I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor understand;


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and in them is filled up the prophecy of Esaias, which says, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and beholding ye shall behold and not see;


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for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.


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for verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous [men] have desired to see the things which ye behold and did not see [them], and to hear the things which ye hear and did not hear [them].


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From every one who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand [it], the wicked one comes and catches away what was sown in his heart: this is he that is sown by the wayside.


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But he that is sown on the rocky places -- this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,


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but has no root in himself, but is for a time only; and when tribulation or persecution happens on account of the word, he is immediately offended.


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And he that is sown among the thorns -- this is he who hears the word, and the anxious care of this life, and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.


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But he that is sown upon the good ground -- this is he who hears and understands the word, who bears fruit also, and produces, one a hundred, one sixty, and one thirty.


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Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens has become like a man sowing good seed in his field;


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And the bondmen of the householder came up and said to him, Sir, hast thou not sown good seed in thy field? whence then has it darnel?


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And he said to them, A man [that is] an enemy has done this. And the bondmen said to him, Wilt thou then that we should go and gather it [up]?


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Suffer both to grow together unto the harvest, and in time of the harvest I will say to the harvestmen, Gather first the darnel, and bind it into bundles to burn it; but the wheat bring together into my granary.


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Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of the heavens is like a grain of mustard [seed] which a man took and sowed in his field;


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which is less indeed than all seeds, but when it is grown is greater than herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and roost in its branches.


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He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it had been all leavened.


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All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,


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so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from [the] world's foundation.


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Then, having dismissed the crowds, he went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Expound to us the parable of the darnel of the field.


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and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil [one];


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and the enemy who has sowed it is the devil; and the harvest is [the] completion of [the] age, and the harvestmen are angels.


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As then the darnel is gathered and is burned in the fire, thus it shall be in the completion of the age.


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The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all offences, and those that practise lawlessness;


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and they shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.


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Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears, let him hear.


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The kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hid in the field, which a man having found has hid, and for the joy of it goes and sells all whatever he has, and buys that field.


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Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a seine which has been cast into the sea, and which has gathered together of every kind,


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which, when it has been filled, having drawn up on the shore and sat down, they gathered the good into vessels and cast the worthless out.


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Thus shall it be in the completion of the age: the angels shall go forth and sever the wicked from the midst of the just,


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And he said to them, For this reason every scribe discipled to the kingdom of the heavens is like a man [that is] a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.


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And having come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Whence has this [man] this wisdom and these works of power?


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Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?


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And they were offended in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honour, unless in his country and in his house.


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and said to his servants, This is John the baptist: *he* is risen from the dead, and because of this these works of power display their force in him.


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For Herod had seized John, and had bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother.


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But when Herod's birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod;


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And the king was grieved; but on account of the oaths, and those lying at table with [him], he commanded [it] to be given.


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and his head was brought upon a dish, and was given to the damsel, and she carried [it] to her mother.


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And Jesus, having heard it, went away thence by ship to a desert place apart. And the crowds having heard [of it] followed him on foot from the cities.


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And going out he saw a great crowd, and was moved with compassion about them, and healed their infirm.


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But when even was come, his disciples came to him saying, The place is desert, and [much of] the [day] time already gone by; dismiss the crowds, that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.


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And having commanded the crowds to recline upon the grass, having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed: and having broken the loaves, he gave [them] to the disciples, and the disciples [gave them] to the crowds.


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And all ate and were filled, and they took up what was over and above of fragments twelve hand-baskets full.


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And immediately he compelled the disciples to go on board ship, and to go on before him to the other side, until he should have dismissed the crowds.


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And having dismissed the crowds, he went up into the mountain apart to pray. And when even was come, he was alone there,


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And the disciples, seeing him walking on the sea, were troubled, saying, It is an apparition. And they cried out through fear.


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And he said, Come. And Peter, having descended from the ship, walked upon the waters to go to Jesus.


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But seeing the wind strong he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, Lord, save me.


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And immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught hold of him, and says to him, O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?


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And when the men of that place recognised him, they sent to that whole country around, and they brought to him all that were ill,


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and besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment; and as many as touched were made thoroughly well.


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Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.


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But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?


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For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.


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But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever [it be] by which [received] from me thou wouldest be profited:


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and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.


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Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.


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Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?


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Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.


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Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught?


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For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;


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and lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those borders, cried [to him] saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.


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But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to [him] and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us.


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But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.


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Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith [is] great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was healed from *that* hour.


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And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;


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and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:


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so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.


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But Jesus, having called his disciples to [him], said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way.


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And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in [the] wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?


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and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.


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And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;


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And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming to [him], asked him, tempting [him], to shew them a sign out of heaven.


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and in the morning, A storm to-day, for the sky is red [and] lowering; ye know [how] to discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot the signs of the times.


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A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it save the sign of Jonas. And he left them and went away.


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And Jesus knowing [it], said, Why reason ye among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have taken no bread?


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Do ye not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took [up]?


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How do ye not understand that [it was] not concerning bread I said to you, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?


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Then they comprehended that he did not speak of being beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


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But when Jesus was come into the parts of Caesarea-Philippi, he demanded of his disciples, saying, Who do men say that I the Son of man am?


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And they said, Some, John the baptist; and others, Elias; and others again, Jeremias or one of the prophets.


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And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed [it] to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.


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And *I* also, I say unto thee that *thou* art Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and hades' gates shall not prevail against it.


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And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be bound in the heavens; and whatsoever thou mayest loose on the earth shall be loosed in the heavens.


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From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples that he must go away to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised.


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And Peter taking him to [him] began to rebuke him, saying, [God] be favourable to thee, Lord; this shall in no wise be unto thee.


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But turning round, he said to Peter, Get away behind me, Satan; thou art an offence to me, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.


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Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.


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For whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.


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For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?


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For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to each according to his doings.


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Verily I say unto you, There are some of those standing here that shall not taste of death at all until they shall have seen the Son of man coming in his kingdom.


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And after six days Jesus takes with [him] Peter, and James, and John his brother, and brings them up into a high mountain apart.


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And he was transfigured before them. And his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as the light;


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And Peter answering said to Jesus, Lord, it is good we should be here. If thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles: for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for Elias.


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While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, *This* is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight: hear him.


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And as they descended from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no one, until the Son of man be risen up from among [the] dead.


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And [his] disciples demanded of him saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first have come?


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But I say unto you that Elias has already come, and they have not known him, but have done unto him whatever they would. Thus also the Son of man is about to suffer from them.


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Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is lunatic, and suffers sorely; for often he falls into the fire and often into the water.


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And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me.


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And he says to them, Because of your unbelief; for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard [seed], ye shall say to this mountain, Be transported hence there, and it shall transport itself; and nothing shall be impossible to you.


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And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man is about to be delivered up into [the] hands of men,


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And when they came to Capernaum, those who received the didrachmas came to Peter and said, Does your teacher not pay the didrachmas?


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He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What dost thou think, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive custom or tribute? from their own sons or from strangers?


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But that we may not be an offence to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when thou hast opened its mouth thou wilt find a stater; take that and give it to them for me and thee.


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In that hour the disciples came to Jesus saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of the heavens?


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and said, Verily I say to you, Unless ye are converted and become as little children, ye will not at all enter into the kingdom of the heavens.


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Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, *he* is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens;


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But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.


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Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; yet woe to that man by whom the offence comes!


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And if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off and cast [it] from thee; it is good for thee to enter into life lame or maimed, [rather] than having two hands or two feet to be cast into eternal fire.


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And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast [it] from thee; it is good for thee to enter into life one-eyed, [rather] than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.


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See that ye do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in [the] heavens continually behold the face of my Father who is in [the] heavens.


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What think ye? If a certain man should have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not, leaving the ninety and nine on the mountains, go and seek the one that has gone astray?


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And if it should come to pass that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoices more because of it than because of the ninety and nine not gone astray.


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So it is not the will of your Father who is in [the] heavens that one of these little ones should perish.


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But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reprove him between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.


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But if he do not hear [thee], take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three.


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But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.


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Verily I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on the earth shall be loosed in heaven.


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Again I say to you, that if two of you shall agree on the earth concerning any matter, whatsoever it may be that they shall ask, it shall come to them from my Father who is in [the] heavens.


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Then Peter came to him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? until seven times?


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But he not having anything to pay, [his] lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and his children, and everything that he had, and that payment should be made.


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The bondman therefore falling down did him homage, saying, Lord, have patience with me and I will pay thee all.


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But that bondman having gone out, found one of his fellow-bondmen who owed him a hundred denarii. And having seized him, he throttled him, saying, Pay [me] if thou owest anything.


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His fellow-bondman therefore, having fallen down [at his feet], besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee.


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But his fellow-bondmen, having seen what had taken place, were greatly grieved, and went and recounted to their lord all that had taken place.


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Then his lord, having called him to [him], says to him, Wicked bondman! I forgave thee all that debt because thou besoughtest me;


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shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-bondman, as *I* also had compassion on thee?


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Thus also my heavenly Father shall do to you if ye forgive not from your hearts every one his brother.


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And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, he withdrew from Galilee, and came to the coasts of Judaea beyond the Jordan;


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And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?


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But he answering said [to them], Have ye not read that he who made [them], from the beginning made them male and female,


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and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?


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so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.


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He says to them, Moses, in view of your hardheartedness, allowed you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not thus.


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But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, not for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries one put away commits adultery.


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for there are eunuchs which have been born thus from [their] mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs of men; and there are eunuchs who have made eunuchs of themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He that is able to receive [it], let him receive [it].


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Then there were brought to him little children that he might lay his hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked them.


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But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and do not hinder them from coming to me; for the kingdom of the heavens is of such:


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And lo, one coming up said to him, Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have life eternal?


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And he said to him, What askest thou me concerning goodness? one is good. But if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.


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He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,


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Jesus said to him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell what thou hast and give to [the] poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.


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And Jesus said to his disciples, Verily I say unto you, A rich man shall with difficulty enter into the kingdom of the heavens;


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and again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to enter a needle's eye than a rich man into the kingdom of God.


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But Jesus, looking on [them], said to them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.


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Then Peter answering said to him, Behold, *we* have left all things and have followed thee; what then shall happen to us?


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And Jesus said to them, Verily I say unto you, That *ye* who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit down upon his throne of glory, *ye* also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


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And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.


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For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard.


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and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their way.


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But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?


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They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard [and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive].


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But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay [them] their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.


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And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius.


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saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.


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But he answering said to one of them, [My] friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?


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And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples with [him] apart in the way, and said to them,


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Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death;


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and they will deliver him up to the nations to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall rise again.


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Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, doing homage, and asking something of him.


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And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Speak [the word] that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand and one on thy left in thy kingdom.


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And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink the cup which *I* am about to drink? They say to him, We are able.


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[And] he says to them, Ye shall drink indeed my cup, but to sit on my right hand and on [my] left, is not mine to give, but to those for whom it is prepared of my Father.


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But Jesus having called them to [him], said, Ye know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the great exercise authority over them.


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as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.


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And lo, two blind men, sitting by the wayside, having heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out saying, Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David.


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But the crowd rebuked them, that they might be silent. But they cried out the more, saying, Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David.


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And Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes had sight restored to them, and they followed him.


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And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,


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saying to them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately ye will find an ass tied, and a colt with it; loose [them] and lead [them] to me.


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And if any one say anything to you, ye shall say, The Lord has need of them, and straightway he will send them.


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But all this came to pass, that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,


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Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy King cometh to thee, meek, and mounted upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.


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But a very great crowd strewed their own garments on the way, and others kept cutting down branches from the trees and strewing them on the way.


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And the crowds who went before him and who followed cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed [be] he who comes in the name of [the] Lord; hosanna in the highest.


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And Jesus entered into the temple [of God], and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those that sold the doves.


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And he says to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but *ye* have made it a den of robbers.


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And when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders which he wrought, and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were indignant,


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and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?


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And seeing one fig-tree in the way, he came to it and found on it nothing but leaves only. And he says to it, Let there be never more fruit of thee for ever. And the fig-tree was immediately dried up.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and do not doubt, not only shall ye do what [is done] to the fig-tree, but even if ye should say to this mountain, Be thou taken away and be thou cast into the sea, it shall come to pass.


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And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him [as he was] teaching, saying, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?


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And Jesus answering said to them, *I* also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, *I* also will tell you by what authority I do these things:


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The baptism of John, whence was it? of heaven or of men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say to us, Why then have ye not believed him?


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And answering Jesus they said, We do not know. *He* also said to them, Neither do *I* tell you by what authority I do these things.


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But what think ye? A man had two children, and coming to the first he said, Child, go to-day, work in [my] vineyard.


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Which of the two did the will of the father? They say [to him], The first. Jesus says to them, Verily I say unto you that the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.


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For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots believed him; but *ye* when ye saw [it] repented not yourselves afterwards to believe him.


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Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.


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But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and possess his inheritance.


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They say to him, He will miserably destroy those evil [men], and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.


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Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone: this is of [the] Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?


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Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.


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And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.


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And seeking to lay hold of him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they held him for a prophet.


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Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast.


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And [when] the king [heard of it he] was wroth, and having sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their city.


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go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.


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And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests.


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And the king, having gone in to see the guests, beheld there a man not clothed with a wedding garment.


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And he says to him, [My] friend, how camest thou in here not having on a wedding garment? But he was speechless.


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Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.


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And they send out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one, for thou regardest not men's person;


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They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Pay then what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God.


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saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife and shall raise up seed to his brother.


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Now there were with us seven brethren; and the first having married died, and not having seed, left his wife to his brother.


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For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels of God in heaven.


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But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,


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*I* am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not God of [the] dead, but of [the] living.


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And he said to him, Thou shalt love [the] Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.


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And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did any one dare from that day to question him any more.


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all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not,


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but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.


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And all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders [of their garments],


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And call not [any one] your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.


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And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.


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But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for *ye* do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry [land] to make one proselyte, and when he is become [such], ye make him twofold more [the] son of hell than yourselves.


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Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.


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And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.


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Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.


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Thus also *ye*, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.


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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,


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and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.


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Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;


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so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.


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Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!


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for I say unto you, Ye shall in no wise see me henceforth until ye say, Blessed [be] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord.


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And Jesus went forth and went away from the temple, and his disciples came to [him] to point out to him the buildings of the temple.


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And he answering said to them, Do ye not see all these things? Verily I say to you, Not a stone shall be left here upon a stone which shall not be thrown down.


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And as he was sitting upon the mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be, and what is the sign of thy coming and [the] completion of the age?


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But ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not disturbed; for all [these things] must take place, but it is not yet the end.


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For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.


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Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.


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And these glad tidings of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole habitable earth, for a witness to all the nations, and then shall come the end.


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When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which is spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in [what is a] holy place, (he that reads let him understand,)


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for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from [the] beginning of [the] world until now, nor ever shall be;


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and if those days had not been cut short, no flesh had been saved; but on account of the elect those days shall be cut short.


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For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.


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If therefore they say to you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth; behold, [he is] in the inner chambers, do not believe [it].


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For as the lightning goes forth from the east and shines to the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.


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But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.


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And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land lament, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.


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And he shall send his angels with a great sound of trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from [the one] extremity of [the] heavens to [the other] extremity of them.


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But learn the parable from the fig-tree: When already its branch becomes tender and produces leaves, ye know that the summer is near.


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Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have taken place.


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For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,


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and they knew not till the flood came and took all away; thus also shall be the coming of the Son of man.


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But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be dug through [into].


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Who then is the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord has set over his household, to give them food in season?


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the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of,


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and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.


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Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be made like to ten virgins that having taken their torches, went forth to meet the bridegroom.


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But the prudent answered saying, [We cannot,] lest it might not suffice for us and for you. Go rather to those that sell, and buy for yourselves.


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But as they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and the [ones that were] ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.


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For [it is] as [if] a man going away out of a country called his own bondmen and delivered to them his substance.


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And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his particular ability, and immediately went away out of the country.


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And he that had received the five talents went and trafficked with them, and made five other talents.


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And he that had received the five talents came to [him] and brought five other talents, saying, [My] lord, thou deliveredst me five talents; behold, I have gained five other talents besides them.


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His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter into the joy of thy lord.


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And he also that had received the two talents came to [him] and said, [My] lord, thou deliveredst me two talents; behold, I have gained two other talents besides them.


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His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.


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And he also that had received the one talent coming to [him] said, [My] lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hadst not sowed, and gathering from where thou hadst not scattered,


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and being afraid I went away and hid thy talent in the earth; behold, thou hast that which is thine.


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And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered;


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thou oughtest then to have put my money to the money-changers, and when I came I should have got what is mine with interest.


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for to every one that has shall be given, and he shall be in abundance; but from him that has not, that even which he has shall be taken from him.


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And cast out the useless bondman into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.


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But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit down upon his throne of glory,


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and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;


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Then shall the King say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from [the] world's foundation:


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for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;


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Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished thee; or thirsting, and gave thee to drink?


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And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.


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Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:


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I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye did not clothe me; ill, and in prison, and ye did not visit me.


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Then shall *they* also answer saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or ill, or in prison, and have not ministered to thee?


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Then shall he answer them saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have not done it to one of these least, neither have ye done it to me.


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Ye know that after two days the passover takes place, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.


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Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,


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a woman, having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, came to him and poured it out upon his head as he lay at table.


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But Jesus knowing [it] said to them, Why do ye trouble the woman? for she has wrought a good work toward me.


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Verily I say to you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, that also which this [woman] has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.


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and said, What are ye willing to give me, and *I* will deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.


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Now on the first [day] of [the feast of] unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?


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And he said, Go into the city unto such a one, and say to him, The Teacher says, My time is near, I will keep the passover in thy house with my disciples.


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But he answering said, He that dips his hand with me in the dish, *he* it is who shall deliver me up.


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The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been born.


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And Judas, who delivered him up, answering said, Is it *I*, Rabbi? He says to him, *Thou* hast said.


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And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken [the] bread and blessed, broke [it] and gave [it] to the disciples, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.


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But I say to you, that I will not at all drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.


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Then saith Jesus to them, All *ye* shall be offended in me during this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.


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Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, that during this night, before [the] cock shall crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.


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Peter says to him, If I should needs die with thee, I will in no wise deny thee. Likewise said all the disciples also.


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Then Jesus comes with them to a place called Gethsemane, and says to the disciples, Sit here until I go away and pray yonder.


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And taking with [him] Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and deeply depressed.


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And going forward a little he fell upon his face, praying and saying, My Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me; but not as *I* will, but as *thou* [wilt].


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And he comes to the disciples and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Thus ye have not been able to watch one hour with me?


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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed [is] ready, but the flesh weak.


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Again going away a second time he prayed saying, My Father, if this cannot pass [from me] unless I drink it, thy will be done.


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Then he comes to the disciples and says to them, Sleep on now and take your rest; behold, the hour has drawn nigh, and the Son of man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.


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And while he was yet speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great crowd with swords and sticks from the chief priests and elders of the people.


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Now he that delivered him up had given them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, he it is: seize him.


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But Jesus said to him, [My] friend, for what purpose art thou come? Then coming up they laid hands upon Jesus and seized him.


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And behold, one of those with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and smiting the bondman of the high priest took off his ear.


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Then saith Jesus to him, Return thy sword to its place; for all who take the sword shall perish by the sword.


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Or thinkest thou that I cannot now call upon my Father, and he will furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?


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In that hour Jesus said to the crowds, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and sticks to take me? I sat daily [with you] teaching in the temple, and ye did not seize me.


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But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.


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Now they that had seized Jesus led [him] away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.


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And Peter followed him at a distance, even to the palace of the high priest, and entering in sat with the officers to see the end.


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And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.


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And they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. But at the last two false witnesses came forward


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And the high priest standing up said to him, Answerest thou nothing? What do these witness against thee?


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But Jesus was silent. And the high priest answering said to him, I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us if *thou* art the Christ the Son of God.


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Jesus says to him, *Thou* hast said. Moreover, I say to you, From henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.


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Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has blasphemed: what need have we any more of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard the blasphemy.


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But Peter sat without in the palace-court; and a maid came to him, saying, And *thou* wast with Jesus the Galilaean.


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And when he had gone out into the entrance, another [maid] saw him, and says to those there, This [man] also was with Jesus the Nazaraean.


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And after a little, those who stood [there], coming to [him], said to Peter, Truly *thou* too art of them, for also thy speech makes thee manifest.


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And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who had said [to him], Before [the] cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went forth without, and wept bitterly.


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And when it was morning all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so that they might put him to death.


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Then Judas, who delivered him up, seeing that he had been condemned, filled with remorse, returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,


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saying, I have sinned [in] having delivered up guiltless blood. But they said, What is that to us? see *thou* [to that].


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And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself.


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And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, It is not lawful to cast them into the Corban, since it is [the] price of blood.


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And having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter for a burying-ground for strangers.


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Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremias the prophet, saying, And I took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was set a price on, whom [they who were] of the sons of Israel had set a price on,


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But Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor questioned him, saying, Art *thou* the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, Thou sayest.


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Now at [the] feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd, whom they would.


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They therefore being gathered together, Pilate said to them, Whom will ye that I release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?


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But, as he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that righteous [man]; for I have suffered to-day many things in a dream because of him.


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But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should beg for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.


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And the governor answering said to them, Which of the two will ye that I release unto you? And they said, Barabbas.


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Pilate says to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ? They all say, Let him be crucified.


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And the governor said, What evil then has he done? But they cried more than ever, saying, Let him be crucified.


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And Pilate, seeing that it availed nothing, but that rather a tumult was arising, having taken water, washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this righteous one: see *ye* [to it].


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Then he released to them Barabbas; but Jesus, having scourged [him], he delivered up that he might be crucified.


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Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus with [them] to the praetorium, gathered against him the whole band,


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and having woven a crown out of thorns, they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and, bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!


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And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify.


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And as they went forth they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name; him they compelled to go [with them] that he might bear his cross.


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and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou art Son of God, descend from the cross.


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He saved others, himself he cannot save. He is King of Israel: let him descend now from the cross, and we will believe on him.


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but about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And immediately one of them running and getting a sponge, having filled [it] with vinegar and fixed [it] on a reed, gave him to drink.


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And lo, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were rent,


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But the centurion, and they who were with him on guard over Jesus, seeing the earthquake and the things that took place, feared greatly, saying, Truly this [man] was Son of God.


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And there were there many women beholding from afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee ministering to him,


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among whom was Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.


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Now when even was come there came a rich man of Arimathaea, his name Joseph, who also himself was a disciple to Jesus.


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and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn in the rock; and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, went away.


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Now on the morrow, which is after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,


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saying, Sir, we have called to mind that that deceiver said when he was still alive, After three days I arise.


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Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.


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Now late on sabbath, as it was the dusk of the next day after sabbath, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary to look at the sepulchre.


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And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of [the] Lord, descending out of heaven, came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.


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And the angel answering said to the women, Fear not *ye*, for I know that ye seek Jesus the crucified one.


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And go quickly and say to his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goes before you into Galilee, there shall ye see him. Behold, I have told you.


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And as they went to bring his disciples word, behold also, Jesus met them, saying, Hail! And they coming up took him by the feet, and did him homage.


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Then Jesus says to them, Fear not; go, bring word to my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there they shall see me.


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And as they went, behold, some of the watch went into the city, and brought word to the chief priests of all that had taken place.


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And having assembled with the elders, and having taken counsel, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,


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And if this should come to the hearing of the governor, *we* will persuade him, and save *you* from all anxiety.


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And they took the money and did as they had been taught. And this report is current among the Jews until this day.


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Go [therefore] and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;


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teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined you. And behold, *I* am with you all the days, until the completion of the age.


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as it is written in [Isaiah] the prophet, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.


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There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching [the] baptism of repentance for remission of sins.


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And there went out to him all the district of Judaea, and all they of Jerusalem, and were baptised by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.


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And John was clothed in camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and ate locusts and wild honey.


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And he preached, saying, There comes he that is mightier than I after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to stoop down and unloose.


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And it came to pass in those days [that] Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptised by John at the Jordan.


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And straightway going up from the water, he saw the heavens parting asunder, and the Spirit, as a dove, descending upon him.


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And there came a voice out of the heavens: *Thou* art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.


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And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.


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But after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom of God,


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and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings.


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And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, [Simon's] brother, casting out a net in the sea, for they were fishers.


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And going on thence a little, he saw James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, and these [were] in the ship repairing the trawl-nets;


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and straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away after him.


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And they go into Capernaum. And straightway on the sabbath he entered into the synagogue and taught.


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And they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.


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saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God.


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And all were amazed, so that they questioned together among themselves, saying, What is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.


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And straightway going out of the synagogue, they came with James and John into the house of Simon and Andrew.


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And he went up to [her] and raised her up, having taken her by the hand, and straightway the fever left her, and she served them.


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But evening being come, when the sun had gone down, they brought to him all that were suffering, and those possessed by demons;


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And he healed many suffering from various diseases; and he cast out many demons, and did not suffer the demons to speak because they knew him.


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And rising in the morning long before day, he went out and went away into a desert place, and there prayed.


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And he says to them, Let us go elsewhere into the neighbouring country towns, that I may preach there also, for for this purpose am I come forth.


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And there comes to him a leper, beseeching him, and falling on his knees to him, and saying to him, If thou wilt thou canst cleanse me.


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But Jesus, moved with compassion, having stretched out his hand, touched him, and says to him, I will, be thou cleansed.


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and says to him, See thou say nothing to any one, but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing what Moses ordained, for a testimony to them.


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But he, having gone forth, began to proclaim [it] much, and to spread the matter abroad, so that he could no longer enter openly into the city, but was without in desert places, and they came to him from every side.


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And he entered again into Capernaum after [several] days, and it was reported that he was at [the] house;


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and straightway many were gathered together, so that there was no longer any room, not even at the door; and he spoke the word to them.


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and, not being able to get near to him on account of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and having dug [it] up they let down the couch on which the paralytic lay.


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And straightway Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they are reasoning thus within themselves, said to them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?


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Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, [Thy] sins are forgiven [thee]; or to say, Arise, and take up thy couch and walk?


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But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he says to the paralytic,


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And he rose up straightway, and, having taken up his couch, went out before [them] all, so that all were amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it thus.


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And passing by, he saw Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office, and says to him, Follow me. And he rose up and followed him.


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And it came to pass as he lay at table in his house, that many tax-gatherers and sinners lay at table with Jesus and his disciples; for they were many, and they followed him.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing him eating with sinners and tax-gatherers, said to his disciples, Why [is it] that he eats and drinks with tax-gatherers and sinners?


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And Jesus having heard [it] says to them, They that are strong have not need of a physician, but those who are ill. I have not come to call righteous [men], but sinners.


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And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting; and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and [the disciples] of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?


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And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.


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But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day.


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No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old [stuff], and there is a worse rent.


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And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.


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And it came to pass that he went on the sabbath through the cornfields; and his disciples began to walk on, plucking the ears.


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And *he* said to them, Have ye never read what David did when he had need and hungered, *he* and those with him,


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how he entered into the house of God, in [the section of] Abiathar [the] high priest, and ate the shew-bread, which it is not lawful unless for the priests to eat, and gave even to those that were with him?


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And he says to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.


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And looking round upon them with anger, distressed at the hardening of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he stretched [it] out, and his hand was restored.


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And the Pharisees going out straightway with the Herodians took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.


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And Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,


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and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea and beyond the Jordan; and they of around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, having heard what things he did, came to him.


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And he spoke to his disciples, in order that a little ship should wait upon him on account of the crowd, that they might not press upon him.


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And the unclean spirits, when they beheld him, fell down before him, and cried saying, *Thou* art the Son of God.


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and James the [son] of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and he gave them the surname of Boanerges, that is, Sons of thunder;


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and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,


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And his relatives having heard [of it] went out to lay hold on him, for they said, He is out of his mind.


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And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and, By the prince of the demons he casts out demons.


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But no one can, having entered into his house, plunder the goods of the strong [man] unless he first bind the strong [man], and then he will plunder his house.


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Verily I say unto you, that all sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and all the injurious speeches [with] which they may speak injuriously;


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but whosoever shall speak injuriously against the Holy Spirit, to eternity has no forgiveness; but lies under the guilt of an everlasting sin;


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And a crowd sat around him. And they said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren seek thee without.


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And looking around in a circuit at those that were sitting around him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren:


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And again he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that going on board ship he sat in the sea, and all the crowd were close to the sea on the land.


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And another fell on the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprung up out [of the ground] because it had no depth of earth;


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And another fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and bore, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.


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And he said to them, To you is given [to know] the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,


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that beholding they may behold and not see, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest it may be, they should be converted and they should be forgiven.


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And he says to them, Do ye not know this parable? and how will ye be acquainted with all the parables?


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and these are they by the wayside where the word is sown, and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.


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And these are they in like manner who are sown upon the rocky places, who when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy,


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and they have no root in themselves, but are for a time: then, tribulation arising, or persecution on account of the word, immediately they are offended.


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and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.


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And these are they who have been sown on the good ground, such as hear the word and receive it, and bear fruit; one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred [fold].


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And he said to them, Does the lamp come that it should be put under the bushel or under the couch? [Is it] not that it should be set upon the lamp-stand?


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For there is nothing hidden which shall not be made manifest; nor does any secret thing take place, but that it should come to light.


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And he said to them, Take heed what ye hear; with what measure ye mete, it shall be meted to you; and there shall be [more] added to you.


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For whosoever has, to him shall be given; and he who has not, even what he has shall be taken from him.


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and should sleep and rise up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he does not know how.


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As to a grain of mustard [seed], which, when it is sown upon the earth, is less than all seeds which are upon the earth,


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and when it has been sown, mounts up and becomes greater than all herbs, and produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven can roost under its shadow.


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but without a parable spoke he not to them; and in private he explained all things to his disciples.


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and having sent away the crowd, they take him with [them], as he was, in the ship. But other ships also were with him.


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And there comes a violent gust of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it already filled.


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And *he* was in the stern sleeping on the cushion. And they awake him up and say to him, Teacher, dost thou not care that we are perishing?


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And awaking up he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Silence; be mute. And the wind fell, and there was a great calm.


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And they feared [with] great fear, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?


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And immediately on his going out of the ship there met him out of the tombs a man possessed by an unclean spirit,


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because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn asunder by him, and the fetters were shattered; and no one was able to subdue him.


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And continually night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying and cutting himself with stones.


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and crying with a loud voice he says, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not.


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And Jesus [immediately] allowed them. And the unclean spirits going out entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep slope, into the sea (about two thousand), and were choked in the sea.


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And those that were feeding them fled and reported it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that had taken place.


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And they come to Jesus, and they see the possessed of demons sitting [and] clothed and sensible, [him] that had had the legion: and they were afraid.


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And they that had seen [it] related to them how it had happened to the [man] possessed by demons, and concerning the swine.


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And as he went on board ship, the man that had been possessed by demons besought him that he might be with him.


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And he suffered him not, but says to him, Go to thine home to thine own people, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for thee, and has had mercy on thee.


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And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him; and all wondered.


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And Jesus having passed over in the ship again to the other side, a great crowd gathered to him; and he was by the sea.


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And [behold] there comes one of the rulers of the synagogue, by name Jairus, and seeing him, falls down at his feet;


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and he besought him much, saying, My little daughter is at extremity; [I pray] that thou shouldest come and lay thy hands upon her so that she may be healed, and may live.


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and had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent everything she had and had found no advantage from it, but had rather got worse,


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And immediately her fountain of blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was cured from the scourge.


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And immediately Jesus, knowing in himself the power that had gone out of him, turning round in the crowd said, Who has touched my clothes?


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And his disciples said to him, Thou seest the crowd pressing on thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?


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But the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had taken place in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.


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While he was yet speaking, they come from the ruler of the synagogue's [house], saying, Thy daughter has died, why troublest thou the teacher any further?


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But Jesus [immediately], having heard the word spoken, says to the ruler of the synagogue, Fear not; only believe.


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And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and people weeping and wailing greatly.


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And entering in he says to them, Why do ye make a tumult and weep? the child has not died, but sleeps.


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And they derided him. But he, having put [them] all out, takes with [him] the father of the child, and the mother, and those that were with him, and enters in where the child was lying.


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And having laid hold of the hand of the child, he says to her, Talitha koumi, which is, interpreted, Damsel, I say to thee, Arise.


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And immediately the damsel arose and walked, for she was twelve years old. And they were astonished with great astonishment.


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And he charged them much that no one should know this; and he desired that [something] should be given her to eat.


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And when sabbath was come he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing were amazed, saying, Whence [has] this [man] these things? and what [is] the wisdom that is given to him, and such works of power are done by his hands?


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But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not despised save in his own country, and among [his] kinsmen, and in his own house.


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And he could not do any work of power there, save that laying his hands on a few infirm persons he healed [them].


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And he calls the twelve to [him]; and he began to send them out two [and] two, and gave to them power over the unclean spirits;


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and he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their belt;


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And whatsoever place shall not receive you nor hear you, departing thence, shake off the dust which is under your feet for a testimony to them.


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And Herod the king heard [of him] (for his name had become public), and said, John the baptist is risen from among [the] dead, and on this account works of power are wrought by him.


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But Herod when he heard [it] said, John whom *I* beheaded, he it is; *he* is risen [from among the dead].


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For the same Herod had sent and seized John, and had bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.


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for Herod feared John knowing that he was a just and holy man, and kept him safe; and having heard him, did many things, and heard him gladly.


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And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief [men] of Galilee;


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and the daughter of the same Herodias having come in, and danced, pleased Herod and those that were with [him] at table; and the king said to the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt and I will give it thee.


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And she went out, and said to her mother, What should I ask? And she said, The head of John the baptist.


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And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked saying, I desire that thou give me directly upon a dish the head of John the baptist.


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And the king, [while] made very sorry, on account of the oaths and those lying at table with [him] would not break his word with her.


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And immediately the king, having sent one of the guard, ordered his head to be brought. And he went out and beheaded him in the prison,


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And the apostles are gathered together to Jesus. And they related to him all things, [both] what they had done and what they had taught.


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And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a little. For those coming and those going were many, and they had not leisure even to eat.


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And many saw them going, and recognised them, and ran together there on foot, out of all the cities, and got [there] before them.


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And on leaving [the ship] [Jesus] saw a great crowd, and he was moved with compassion for them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.


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And when it was already late in the day, his disciples coming to him say, The place is desert, and it is already late in the day;


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send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.


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And he answering said to them, Give *ye* them to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them to eat?


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And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? Go [and] see. And when they knew they say, Five, and two fishes.


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And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave [them] to his disciples that they might set [them] before them. And the two fishes he divided among all.


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And immediately he compelled his disciples to go on board ship, and to go on before to the other side to Bethsaida, while *he* sends the crowd away.


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And seeing them labouring in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he comes to them walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.


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For all saw him and were troubled. And immediately he spoke with them, and says to them, Be of good courage: it is *I*; be not afraid.


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And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind fell. And they were exceedingly beyond measure astonished in themselves and wondered;


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they ran through that whole country around, and began to carry about those that were ill on couches, where they heard that he was.


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And wherever he entered into villages, or cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might touch if it were only the hem of his garment; and as many as touched him were healed.


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(for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding what has been delivered by the ancients;


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and [on coming] from the market-place, unless they are washed, they do not eat; and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the washing of cups and vessels, and brazen utensils, and couches),


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then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands?


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But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me.


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[For], leaving the commandment of God, ye hold what is delivered by men [to keep] -- washings of vessels and cups, and many other such like things ye do.


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And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves [to keep].


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For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.


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But *ye* say, If a man say to his father or his mother, [It is] corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by ...


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making void the word of God by your traditional teaching which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do.


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There is nothing from outside a man entering into him which can defile him; but the things which go out from him, those it is which defile the man.


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And he says to them, Are *ye* also thus unintelligent? Do ye not perceive that all that is outside entering into the man cannot defile him,


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because it does not enter into his heart but into his belly, and goes out into the draught, purging all meats?


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For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,


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thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;


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And he rose up and went away thence into the borders of Tyre and Sidon; and having entered into a house he would not have any one know [it], and he could not be hid.


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But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell at his feet


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(and the woman was a Greek, Syrophenician by race), and asked him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.


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But [Jesus] said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.


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But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.


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And again having left the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.


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And they bring to him a deaf [man] who could not speak right, and they beseech him that he might lay his hand on him.


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And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers to his ears; and having spit, he touched his tongue;


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And he charged them that they should speak to no one [of it]. But so much the more *he* charged them, so much the more abundantly *they* proclaimed it;


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and they were astonished above measure, saying, He does all things well; he makes both the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak.


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In those days, there being again a great crowd, and they having nothing that they could eat, having called his disciples to [him], he says to them,


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I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat,


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and if I should dismiss them to their home fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far.


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And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to satisfy these with bread here in a desert place?


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And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. And having taken the seven loaves, he gave thanks, and broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples, that they might set [them] before [them]; and they set [them] before the crowd.


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And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed them, he desired these also to be set before [them].


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And the Pharisees went out and began to dispute against him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, tempting him.


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And groaning in his spirit, he says, Why does this generation seek a sign? Verily I say unto you, A sign shall in no wise be given to this generation.


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And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and [of] the leaven of Herod.


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And Jesus knowing [it], says to them, Why reason ye because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive nor understand? Have ye your heart [yet] hardened?


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When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve.


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And when the seven for the four thousand, the filling of how many baskets of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.


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And taking hold of the hand of the blind man he led him forth out of the village, and having spit upon his eyes, he laid his hands upon him, and asked him if he beheld anything.


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Then he laid his hands again upon his eyes, and he saw distinctly, and was restored and saw all things clearly.


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And he sent him to his house, saying, Neither enter into the village, nor tell [it] to any one in the village.


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And Jesus went forth and his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea-Philippi. And by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Who do men say that I am?


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And they answered him, saying, John the baptist; and others, Elias; but others, One of the prophets.


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And he asked them, But *ye*, who do ye say that I am? And Peter answering says to him, *Thou* art the Christ.


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And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and of the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise [again].


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But he, turning round and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, Get away behind me, Satan, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.


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And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.


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For whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.


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For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.


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And he said to them, Verily I say unto you, There are some of those standing here that shall not taste death until they shall have seen the kingdom of God come in power.


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And after six days Jesus takes with [him] Peter and James and John, and takes them up on a high mountain by themselves apart. And he was transfigured before them:


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and his garments became shining, exceeding white [as snow], such as fuller on earth could not whiten [them].


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And Peter answering says to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good that we should be here; and let us make three tabernacles, for thee one, and for Moses one, and for Elias one.


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And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, *This* is my beloved Son: hear him.


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And as they descended from the mountain, he charged them that they should relate to no one what they had seen, unless when the Son of man should be risen from among [the] dead.


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And he answering said to them, Elias indeed, having first come, restores all things; and how is it written of the Son of man that he must suffer much, and be set at nought:


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but I say unto you that Elias also is come, and they have done to him whatever they would, as it is written of him.


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And when he came to the disciples he saw a great crowd around them, and scribes disputing against them.


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and wheresoever it seizes him it tears him, and he foams and gnashes his teeth, and he is withering away. And I spoke to thy disciples, that they might cast him out, and they could not.


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But he answering them says, O unbelieving generation! how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me.


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And they brought him to him. And seeing him the spirit immediately tore him; and falling upon the earth he rolled foaming.


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And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has been like this with him? And he said, From childhood;


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and often it has cast him both into fire and into waters that it might destroy him: but if thou couldst [do] anything, be moved with pity on us, and help us.


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And Jesus said to him, The 'if thou couldst' is [if thou couldst] believe: all things are possible to him that believes.


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And immediately the father of the young child crying out said [with tears], I believe, help mine unbelief.


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But Jesus, seeing that [the] crowd was running up together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, *I* command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.


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And having cried out and torn [him] much, he came out; and he became as if dead, so that the most said, He is dead.


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And when he was entered into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Wherefore could not *we* cast him out?


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for he taught his disciples and said to them, The Son of man is delivered into men's hands, and they shall kill him; and having been killed, after three days he shall rise again.


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And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he asked them, Of what were ye reasoning by the way?


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And they remained silent, for by the way they had been reasoning with one another who [was] greatest.


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And sitting down he called the twelve; and he says to them, If any one would be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.


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And taking a little child he set it in their midst, and having taken it in his arms he said to them,


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Whosoever shall receive one of such little children in my name, receives me; and whosoever shall receive me, does not receive me, but him who sent me.


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And John answered him saying, Teacher, we saw some one casting out demons in thy name, who does not follow us, and we forbad him, because he does not follow us.


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But Jesus said, Forbid him not; for there is no one who shall do a miracle in my name, and be able soon [after] to speak ill of me;


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For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in [my] name, because ye are Christ's, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.


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And whosoever shall be a snare to one of the little ones who believe [in me], it were better for him if a millstone were hung about his neck, and he cast into the sea.


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And if thy hand serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go away into hell, into the fire unquenchable;


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And if thy foot serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having thy two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire unquenchable;


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And if thine eye serve as a snare to thee, cast it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire,


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Salt [is] good, but if the salt is become saltless, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.


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And rising up thence he comes into the coasts of Judaea, and the other side of the Jordan. And again crowds come together to him, and, as he was accustomed, again he taught them.


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And Pharisees coming to [him] asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? (tempting him).


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And Jesus answering said to them, In view of your hard-heartedness he wrote this commandment for you;


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And he says to them, Whosoever shall put away his wife and shall marry another, commits adultery against her.


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And they brought little children to him that he might touch them. But the disciples rebuked those that brought [them].


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But Jesus seeing [it], was indignant, and said to them, Suffer the little children to come to me; forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.


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Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter into it.


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And as he went forth into the way, a person ran up to [him], and kneeling to him asked him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?


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Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.


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And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, One thing lackest thou: go, sell whatever thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, [taking up the cross].


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And Jesus looking around says to his disciples, How difficultly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!


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And the disciples were amazed at his words. And Jesus again answering says to them, Children, how difficult it is that those who trust in riches should enter into the kingdom of God!


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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


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But Jesus looking on them says, With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.


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Jesus answering said, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, [or wife], or children, or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,


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that shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the coming age life eternal.


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And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going on before them; and they were amazed, and were afraid as they followed. And taking the twelve again to [him], he began to tell them what was going to happen to him:


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Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be delivered up to the chief priests and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him up to the nations:


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and they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again.


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And there come to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying [to him], Teacher, we would that whatsoever we may ask thee, thou wouldst do it for us.


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And they said to him, Give to us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy glory.


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And Jesus said to them, Ye do not know what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup which *I* drink, or be baptised with the baptism that *I* am baptised with?


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And they said to him, We are able. And Jesus said to them, The cup that *I* drink ye will drink and with the baptism that *I* am baptised with ye will be baptised,


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but to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give, but for those for whom it is prepared.


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But Jesus having called them to [him], says to them, Ye know that those who are esteemed to rule over the nations exercise lordship over them; and their great men exercise authority over them;


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For also the Son of man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and give his life a ransom for many.


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And they come to Jericho, and as he was going out from Jericho, and his disciples and a large crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind [man], sat by the wayside begging.


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And having heard that it was Jesus the Nazaraean, he began to cry out and to say, O Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me.


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And many rebuked him, that he might be silent; but he cried so much the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.


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And Jesus, standing still, desired him to be called. And they call the blind [man], saying to him, Be of good courage, rise up, he calls thee.


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And Jesus answering says to him, What wilt thou that I shall do to thee? And the blind [man] said to him, Rabboni, that I may see.


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And Jesus said to him, Go, thy faith has healed thee. And he saw immediately, and followed him in the way.


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And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples,


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and says to them, Go into the village which is over against you, and immediately on entering into it ye will find a colt tied, upon which no [child] of man has ever sat: loose it and lead it [here].


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And if any one say to you, Why do ye this? say, The Lord has need of it; and straightway he sends it hither.


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and many strewed their clothes on the way, and others cut down branches from the trees [and went on strewing them on the way].


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And those going on before and those following cried out, Hosanna! blessed [be] he that comes in [the] Lord's name.


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And he entered into Jerusalem and into the temple; and having looked round on all things, the hour being already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.


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And seeing from afar off a fig-tree which had leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find something on it. And having come up to it he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the time of figs.


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And answering he said to it, Let no one eat fruit of thee any more for ever. And his disciples heard [it].


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And they come to Jerusalem, and entering into the temple, he began to cast out those who sold and who bought in the temple, and he overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of the dove-sellers,


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And he taught saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? but *ye* have made it a den of robbers.


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And the chief priests and the scribes heard [it], and they sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the crowd were astonished at his doctrine.


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And Peter, remembering [what Jesus had said], says to him, Rabbi, see, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is dried up.


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Verily I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, Be thou taken away and cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe that what he says takes place, whatever he shall say shall come to pass for him.


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For this reason I say to you, All things whatsoever ye pray for and ask, believe that ye receive it, and it shall come to pass for you.


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And when ye stand praying, forgive if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your offences.


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And they come again to Jerusalem. And as he walked about in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders come to him,


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and they say to him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority, that thou shouldest do these things?


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And Jesus answering said to them, *I* also will ask you one thing, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:


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And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say, Why [then] have ye not believed him?


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but should we say, Of men -- they feared the people; for all held of John that he was truly a prophet.


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And they answering say to Jesus, We do not know. And Jesus [answering] says to them, Neither do *I* tell you by what authority I do these things.


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And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard, and made a fence round [it] and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.


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And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.


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And again he sent to them another bondman; and [at] him they [threw stones, and] struck [him] on the head, and sent [him] away with insult.


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Having yet therefore one beloved son, he sent also him to them the last, saying, They will have respect for my son.


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But those husbandmen said to one another, This is the heir: come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours.


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What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.


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Have ye not even read this scripture, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone:


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And they sought to lay hold of him, and they feared the crowd; for they knew that he had spoken the parable of them. And they left him and went away.


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And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in speaking.


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And they come and say to him, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and carest not for any one; for thou regardest not men's person, but teachest the way of God with truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?


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Should we give, or should we not give? But he knowing their hypocrisy said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denarius that I may see [it].


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And they brought [it]. And he says to them, Whose [is] this image and superscription? And they said to him, Caesar's.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Pay what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God. And they wondered at him.


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Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if any one's brother die, and leave a wife behind, and leave no children, that his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.


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In the resurrection, when they shall rise again, of which of them shall she be wife, for the seven had her as wife?


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And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God?


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For when they rise from among [the] dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels [who are] in the heavens.


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But concerning the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, in [the section of] the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, *I* [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?


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And one of the scribes who had come up, and had heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, demanded of him, Which is [the] first commandment of all?


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And Jesus answered him, [The] first commandment of all [is], Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord;


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and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is [the] first commandment.


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And a second like it [is] this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these.


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And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast spoken according to [the] truth. For he is one, and there is none other besides him;


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and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.


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And Jesus, seeing that he had answered intelligently, said to him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no one dared question him any more.


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And Jesus answering said [as he was] teaching in the temple, How do the scribes say that the Christ is son of David?


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[for] David himself said [speaking] in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet.


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David himself [therefore] calls him Lord, and whence is he his son? And the mass of the people heard him gladly.


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And he said to them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and salutations in the marketplaces,


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who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.


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And Jesus, having sat down opposite the treasury, saw how the crowd was casting money into the treasury; and many rich cast in much.


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And having called his disciples to [him] he said to them, Verily I say unto you, This poor widow has cast in more than all who have cast into the treasury:


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for all have cast in of that which they had in abundance, but she of her destitution has cast in all that she had, the whole of her living.


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And as he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples says to him, Teacher, see what stones and what buildings!


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And Jesus answering said to him, Seest thou these great buildings? not a stone shall be left upon a stone, which shall not be thrown down.


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And as he sat on the mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,


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Tell us, when shall these things be, and what is the sign when all these things are going to be fulfilled?


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But when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be not disturbed, for [this] must happen, but the end is not yet.


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For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be earthquakes in [different] places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these things [are the] beginnings of throes.


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But *ye*, take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims and to synagogues: ye shall be beaten and brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them;


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But when they shall lead you away to deliver you up, be not careful beforehand as to what ye shall say, [nor prepare your discourse]: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak; for *ye* are not the speakers, but the Holy Spirit.


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But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.


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And ye will be hated of all on account of my name; but he that has endured to the end, *he* shall be saved.


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But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not, (he that reads let him consider [it],) then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains;


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and him that is upon the housetop not come down into the house, nor enter [into it] to take away anything out of his house;


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for those days shall be distress such as there has not been the like since [the] beginning of creation which God created, until now, and never shall be;


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and if [the] Lord had not cut short those days, no flesh should have been saved; but on account of the elect whom he has chosen, he has cut short those days.


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For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.


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But in those days, after that distress, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give its light;


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and the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the powers which are in the heavens shall be shaken;


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and then shall he send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from end of earth to end of heaven.


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But learn the parable from the fig-tree: when its branch already becomes tender and puts forth the leaves, ye know that the summer is near.


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Verily I say unto you, This generation shall in no wise pass away, till all these things take place.


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But of that day or of that hour no one knows, neither the angels who are in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.


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[it is] as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.


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Watch therefore, for ye do not know when the master of the house comes: evening, or midnight, or cock-crow, or morning;


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Now the passover and the [feast of] unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.


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And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.


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And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?


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for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.


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for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.


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And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, what this [woman] has done shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.


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And Judas Iscariote, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them;


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and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up.


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And the first day of unleavened bread, when they slew the passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?


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And he sends two of his disciples, and says to them, Go into the city, and a man shall meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him.


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And wheresoever he enters, say to the master of the house, The Teacher says, Where is my guest-chamber where I may eat the passover with my disciples?


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And his disciples went away and came into the city, and found as he had said to them; and they made ready the passover.


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And as they lay at table and were eating, Jesus said, Verily I say to you, One of you shall deliver me up; he who is eating with me.


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The Son of man goes indeed as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; [it were] good for that man if he had not been born.


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And as they were eating, Jesus, having taken bread, when he had blessed, broke [it], and gave [it] to them, and said, Take [this]: this is my body.


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And having taken [the] cup, when he had given thanks, he gave [it] to them, and they all drank out of it.


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Verily I say to you, I will no more drink at all of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.


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And Jesus says to them, All ye shall be offended, for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad.


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And Jesus says to him, Verily I say to thee, that thou to-day, in this night, before [the] cock shall crow twice, thou shalt thrice deny me.


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But he said [so much] exceedingly the more, If I should have to die with thee, I will in no wise deny thee. And likewise said they all too.


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And they come to a place of which the name [is] Gethsemane, and he says to his disciples, Sit here while I shall pray.


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And, going forward a little, he fell upon the earth; and he prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.


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And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: take away this cup from me; but not what *I* will, but what *thou* [wilt].


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And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, dost thou sleep? Hast thou not been able to watch one hour?


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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed [is] willing, but the flesh weak.


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And returning, he found them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy; and they knew not what they should answer him.


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And he comes the third time and says to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough; the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.


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And immediately, while he was yet speaking, Judas comes up, [being] one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd, with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.


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Now he that delivered him up had given them a sign between them, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he; seize him, and lead [him] away safely.


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And being come, straightway coming up to him, he says, Rabbi, Rabbi; and he covered him with kisses.


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But a certain one of those who stood by, having drawn his sword, struck the bondman of the high priest, and took off his ear.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Are ye come out as against a robber, with swords and sticks to take me?


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I was daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye did not seize me; but [it is] that the scriptures may be fulfilled.


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And a certain young man followed him with a linen cloth cast about his naked [body]; and [the young men] seize him;


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And they led away Jesus to the high priest. And there come together to him all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.


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And Peter followed him at a distance, till [he was] within the court of the high priest's palace; and he was sitting with the officers and warming himself in the light [of the fire].


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And the chief priests and the whole sanhedrim sought testimony against Jesus to cause him to be put to death, and did not find [any].


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*We* heard him saying, *I* will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will build another not made with hands.


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And the high priest, rising up before them all, asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? What do these testify against thee?


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But he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and says to him, *Thou* art the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?


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And Jesus said, *I* am, and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.


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And some began to spit upon him, and cover up his face, and buffet him, and say to him, Prophesy; and the officers struck him with the palms of their hands.


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and seeing Peter warming himself, having looked at him, says, And *thou* wast with the Nazarene, Jesus.


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But he denied, saying, I know not nor understand what thou sayest. And he went out into the vestibule; and a cock crew.


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And he again denied. And again, after a little, those that stood by said to Peter, Truly thou art [one] of them, for also thou art a Galilean.


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And the second time a cock crew. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus said to him, Before [the] cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice; and when he thought thereon he wept.


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And immediately in the morning the chief priests, having taken counsel with the elders and scribes and the whole sanhedrim, bound Jesus and carried [him] away, and delivered [him] up to Pilate.


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And Pilate asked him, Art *thou* the King of the Jews? And he answered and said to him, *Thou* sayest.


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And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? See of how many things they bear witness against thee.


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Now there was the [person] named Barabbas bound with those who had made insurrection with [him], [and] that had committed murder in the insurrection.


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And Pilate answering said to them again, What will ye then that I do [to him] whom ye call King of the Jews?


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And Pilate said to them, What evil then has he done? But they cried out the more urgently, Crucify him.


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And Pilate, desirous of contenting the crowd, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified.


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And the soldiers led him away into the court which is [called the] praetorium, and they call together the whole band.


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And when they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own clothes on him; and they lead him out that they may crucify him.


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And they compel to go [with them] a certain passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he might carry his cross.


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And having crucified him, they part his clothes amongst [themselves], casting lots on them, what each one should take.


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And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, and saying, Aha, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days,


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In like manner the chief priests also, with the scribes, mocking with one another, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save.


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Let the Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and may believe. And they that were crucified with him reproached him.


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and at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, [saying], Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?


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And one, running and filling a sponge with vinegar, fixed it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone, let us see if Elias comes to take him down.


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And the centurion who stood by over against him, when he saw that he had expired having thus cried out, said, Truly this man was Son of God.


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And there were women also looking on from afar off, among whom were both Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;


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who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him and ministered to him; and many others who came up with him to Jerusalem.


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And when it was already evening, since it was [the] preparation, that is, [the day] before a sabbath,


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Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable councillor, who also himself was awaiting the kingdom of God, coming, emboldened himself and went in to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.


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And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and having called to [him] the centurion, he inquired of him if he had long died.


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And having bought fine linen, [and] having taken him down, he swathed him in the fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was cut out of rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.


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And the sabbath being [now] past, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices that they might come and embalm him.


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And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right, clothed in a white robe, and they were amazed and alarmed;


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but he says to them, Be not alarmed. Ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, the crucified one. He is risen, he is not here; behold the place where they had put him.


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But go, tell his disciples and Peter, he goes before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him, as he said to you.


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And they went out, and fled from the sepulchre. And trembling and excessive amazement possessed them, and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid.


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Now when he had risen very early, the first [day] of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom he had cast seven demons.


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And after these things he was manifested in another form to two of them as they walked, going into the country;


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Afterwards as they lay at table he was manifested to the eleven, and reproached [them with] their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him risen.


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And these signs shall follow those that have believed: in my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;


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they shall take up serpents; and if they should drink any deadly thing it shall not injure them; they shall lay hands upon the infirm, and they shall be well.


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The Lord therefore, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.


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And they, going forth, preached everywhere, the Lord working with [them], and confirming the word by the signs following upon [it].


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Forasmuch as many have undertaken to draw up a relation concerning the matters fully believed among us,


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as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,


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it has seemed good to *me* also, accurately acquainted from the origin with all things, to write to thee with method, most excellent Theophilus,


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There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abia, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.


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And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.


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it fell to him by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn incense.


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But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy supplication has been heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.


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For he shall be great before [the] Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with [the] Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.


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And *he* shall go before him in [the] spirit and power of Elias, to turn hearts of fathers to children, and disobedient ones to [the] thoughts of just [men], to make ready for [the] Lord a prepared people.


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And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for *I* am an old man, and my wife advanced in years?


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And the angel answering, said to him, *I* am Gabriel, who stand before God, and I have been sent to speak to thee, and to bring these glad tidings to thee;


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and behold, thou shalt be silent and not able to speak, till the day in which these things shall take place, because thou hast not believed my words, the which shall be fulfilled in their time.


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But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they recognised that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he was making signs to them, and continued dumb.


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Thus has [the] Lord done to me in [these] days in which he looked upon [me] to take away my reproach among men.


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But in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent of God to a city of Galilee, of which [the] name [was] Nazareth,


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to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name [was] Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name [was] Mary.


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And the angel came in to her, and said, Hail, [thou] favoured one! the Lord [is] with thee: [blessed art *thou* amongst women].


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But she, [seeing] [the angel], was troubled at his word, and reasoned in her mind what this salutation might be.


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*He* shall be great, and shall be called Son of [the] Highest; and [the] Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father;


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and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for the ages, and of his kingdom there shall not be an end.


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And the angel answering said to her, [The] Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and power of [the] Highest overshadow thee, wherefore the holy thing also which shall be born shall be called Son of God.


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And behold, Elizabeth, thy kinswoman, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her that was called barren:


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And Mary said, Behold the bondmaid of [the] Lord; be it to me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.


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And it came to pass, as Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with [the] Holy Spirit,


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and cried out with a loud voice and said, Blessed [art] *thou* amongst women, and blessed the fruit of thy womb.


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And blessed [is] she that has believed, for there shall be a fulfilment of the things spoken to her from [the] Lord.


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For he has looked upon the low estate of his bondmaid; for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.


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He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty [ones] in the thought of their heart.


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And her neighbours and kinsfolk heard that [the] Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.


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And it came to pass on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called it after the name of his father, Zacharias.


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And fear came upon all who dwelt round about them; and in the whole hill-country of Judaea all these things were the subject of conversation.


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And all who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then will this child be? And [the] Lord's hand was with him.


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Blessed be [the] Lord the God of Israel, because he has visited and wrought redemption for his people,


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And *thou*, child, shalt be called [the] prophet of [the] Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of [the] Lord to make ready his ways;


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on account of [the] bowels of mercy of our God; wherein [the] dayspring from on high has visited us,


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to shine upon them who were sitting in darkness and in [the] shadow of death, to guide our feet into [the] way of peace.


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-- And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit; and he was in the deserts until the day of his shewing to Israel.


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But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world.


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and Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city Nazareth to Judaea, to David's city, the which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,


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to be inscribed in the census roll with Mary who was betrothed to him [as his] wife, she being great with child.


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And it came to pass, while they were there, the days of her giving birth [to her child] were fulfilled,


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and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.


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And there were shepherds in that country abiding without, and keeping watch by night over their flock.


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And lo, an angel of [the] Lord was there by them, and [the] glory of [the] Lord shone around them, and they feared [with] great fear.


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And the angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I announce to you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people;


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And this is the sign to you: ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger.


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And it came to pass, as the angels departed from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, Let us make our way then now as far as Bethlehem, and let us see this thing that is come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.


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and having seen [it] they made known about the country the thing which had been said to them concerning this child.


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And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all things which they had heard and seen, as it had been said to them.


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And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus, which was the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.


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And when the days were fulfilled for their purifying according to the law of Moses, they brought him to Jerusalem to present [him] to the Lord


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(as it is written in the law of [the] Lord: Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord),


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and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of [the] Lord: A pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons.


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And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and [the] Holy Spirit was upon him.


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And it was divinely communicated to him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death before he should see [the] Lord's Christ.


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And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and as the parents brought in the child Jesus that they might do for him according to the custom of the law,


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And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo, this [child] is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;


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(and even a sword shall go through thine own soul;) so that [the] thoughts may be revealed from many hearts.


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And there was a prophetess, Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of [the] tribe of Asher, who was far advanced in years, having lived with [her] husband seven years from her virginity,


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and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;


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and she coming up the same hour gave praise to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who waited for redemption in Jerusalem.


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And when they had completed all things according to the law of [the] Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own city Nazareth.


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And when he was twelve years old, and they went up [to Jerusalem] according to the custom of the feast


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and had completed the days, as they returned, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, and his parents knew not [of it];


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but, supposing him to be in the company that journeyed together, they went a day's journey, and sought him among their relations and acquaintances:


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And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers and hearing them and asking them questions.


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And when they saw him they were amazed: and his mother said to him, Child, why hast thou dealt thus with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee distressed.


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And he said to them, Why [is it] that ye have sought me? did ye not know that I ought to be [occupied] in my Father's business?


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And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and he was in subjection to them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart.


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Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,


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in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, [the] word of God came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.


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And he came into all the district round the Jordan, preaching [the] baptism of repentance for [the] remission of sins,


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as it is written in [the] book of [the] words of Esaias the prophet: Voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of [the] Lord, make straight his paths.


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Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked [places] shall become a straight [path], and the rough places smooth ways,


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He said therefore to the crowds which went out to be baptised by him, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?


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Produce therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say in yourselves, We have Abraham for [our] father, for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.


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And already also the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into [the] fire.


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And he answering says to them, He that has two body-coats, let him give to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.


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And persons engaged in military service also asked him saying, And we, what should we do? And he said to them, Oppress no one, nor accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.


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But as the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John whether *he* might be the Christ,


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John answered all, saying, *I* indeed baptise you with water, but the mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to unloose; *he* shall baptise you with [the] Holy Spirit and fire;


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whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.


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But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,


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And it came to pass, all the people having been baptised, and Jesus having been baptised and praying, that the heaven was opened,


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and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him; and a voice came out of heaven, *Thou* art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.


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And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years old; being as was supposed son of Joseph; of Eli,


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But Jesus, full of [the] Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness


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forty days, tempted of the devil; and in those days he did not eat anything, and when they were finished he hungered.


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And Jesus answered unto him saying, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.


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And [the devil], leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.


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And the devil said to him, I will give thee all this power, and their glory; for it is given up to me, and to whomsoever I will I give it.


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And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do homage to [the] Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.


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And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the edge of the temple, and said to him, If thou be Son of God, cast thyself down hence;


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And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee; and a rumour went out into the whole surrounding country about him;


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And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he entered, according to his custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.


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And [the] book of the prophet Esaias was given to him; and having unrolled the book he found the place where it was written,


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[The] Spirit of [the] Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to [the] poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to [the] blind sight, to send forth [the] crushed delivered,


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And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.


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And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?


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And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.


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But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,


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And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.


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and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice;


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And there was in the synagogue a man having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried with a loud voice,


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saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy [One] of God.


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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out from him. And the demon, having thrown him down into the midst, came out from him without doing him any injury.


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And astonishment came upon all, and they spoke to one another, saying, What word [is] this? for with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.


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And rising up out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon. But Simon's mother-in-law was suffering under a bad fever; and they asked him for her.


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And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and forthwith standing up she served them.


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And when the sun went down, all, as many as had persons sick with divers diseases, brought them to him, and having laid his hands on every one of them, he healed them;


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and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying, *Thou* art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.


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And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and [would have] kept him back that he should not go from them.


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But he said to them, I must needs announce the glad tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for for this I have been sent forth.


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And it came to pass, as the crowd pressed on him to hear the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret:


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and he saw two ships standing by the lake, but the fishermen, having come down from them, were washing their nets.


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And getting into one of the ships, which was Simon's, he asked him to draw out a little from the land; and he sat down and taught the crowds out of the ship.


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But when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon, Draw out into the deep [water] and let down your nets for a haul.


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And Simon answering said to him, Master, having laboured through the whole night we have taken nothing, but at thy word I will let down the net.


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And they beckoned to their partners who were in the other ship to come and help them, and they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were sinking.


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But Simon Peter, seeing it, fell at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.


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For astonishment had laid hold on him, and on all those who were with him, at the haul of fishes which they had taken;


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and in like manner also on James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt be catching men.


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And it came to pass as he was in one of the cities, that behold, there was a man full of leprosy, and seeing Jesus, falling upon his face, he besought him saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou art able to cleanse me.


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And stretching forth his hand he touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed: and immediately the leprosy departed from him.


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And he enjoined him to tell no one; but go, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing as Moses ordained, for a testimony to them.


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But the report concerning him was spread abroad still more, and great crowds came together to hear, and to be healed from their infirmities.


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And it came to pass on one of the days, that *he* was teaching, and there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, who were come out of every village of Galilee and Judaea and [out of] Jerusalem; and [the] Lord's power was [there] to heal them.


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And lo, men bringing upon a couch a man who was paralysed; and they sought to bring him in, and put [him] before him.


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And not finding what way to bring him in, on account of the crowd, going up on the housetop they let him down through the tiles, with his little couch, into the midst before Jesus.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason [in their minds], saying, Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins but God alone?


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But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he said to the paralysed man, I say to thee, Arise, and take up thy little couch and go to thine house.


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And immediately standing up before them, having taken up that whereon he was laid, he departed to his house, glorifying God.


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And astonishment seized all, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to-day.


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And after these things he went forth and saw a tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the receipt of taxes, and said to him, Follow me.


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And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who were at table with them.


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And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?


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And Jesus answering said to them, They that are in sound health have not need of a physician, but those that are ill.


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And they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make supplications, in like manner those also of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?


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And he said to them, Can ye make the sons of the bridechamber fast when the bridegroom is with them?


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But days will come when also the bridegroom will have been taken away from them; then shall they fast in those days.


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And he spoke also a parable to them: No one puts a piece of a new garment upon an old garment, otherwise he will both rend the new, and the piece which is from the new will not suit with the old.


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And no one puts new wine into old skins, otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;


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And it came to pass on [the] second-first sabbath, that he went through cornfields, and his disciples were plucking the ears and eating [them], rubbing [them] in their hands.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did when he hungered, he and those who were with him,


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how he entered into the house of God and took the shewbread and ate, and gave to those also who were with him, which it is not lawful that [any] eat, unless the priests alone?


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And it came to pass on another sabbath also that he entered into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered.


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And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching if he would heal on the sabbath, that they might find something of which to accuse him.


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But *he* knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Get up, and stand in the midst. And having risen up he stood [there].


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Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy [it]?


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And having looked around on them all, he said to him, Stretch out thy hand. And he did [so] and his hand was restored as the other.


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But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.


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And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.


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And when it was day he called his disciples, and having chosen out twelve from them, whom also he named apostles:


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Simon, to whom also he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew his brother, [and] James and John, [and] Philip and Bartholomew,


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and having descended with them, he stood on a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;


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And *he*, lifting up his eyes upon his disciples, said, Blessed [are] ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.


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Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from them], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake:


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rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.


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Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.


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To him that smites thee on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him that would take away thy garment, forbid not thy body-coat also.


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And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them.


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And if ye do good to those that do good to you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners do the same.


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And if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what thank is it to you? [for] even sinners lend to sinners that they may receive the like.


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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of [the] Highest; for *he* is good to the unthankful and wicked.


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And judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. Remit, and it shall be remitted to you.


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Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall be given into your bosom: for with the same measure with which ye mete it shall be measured to you again.


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And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind [man] lead a blind [man]? shall not both fall into [the] ditch?


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But why lookest thou on the mote which is in the eye of thy brother, but perceivest not the beam which is in thine own eye?


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or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, allow [me], I will cast out the mote that is in thine eye, thyself not seeing the beam that is in thine eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou shalt see clear to cast out the mote which is in the eye of thy brother.


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For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;


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for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble.


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The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good; and the wicked [man] out of the wicked, brings forth what is wicked: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.


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He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock; but a great rain coming, the stream broke upon that house, and could not shake it, for it had been founded on the rock.


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And he that has heard and not done, is like a man who has built a house on the ground without [a] foundation, on which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the breach of that house was great.


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and having heard of Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, begging him that he might come and save his bondman.


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But they, being come to Jesus, besought him diligently, saying, He is worthy to whom thou shouldest grant this,


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And Jesus went with them. But already, when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent to him friends, saying to him, Lord, do not trouble thyself, for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof.


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Wherefore neither did I count myself worthy to come to thee. But say by a word and my servant shall be healed.


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For *I* also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this [one], Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bondman, Do this, and he does [it].


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And Jesus hearing this wondered at him, and turning to the crowd following him said, I say to you, Not even in Israel have I found so great faith.


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And it came to pass afterwards he went into a city called Nain, and many of his disciples and a great crowd went with him.


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And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a very considerable crowd of the city [was] with her.


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and coming up he touched the bier, and the bearers stopped. And he said, Youth, I say to thee, Wake up.


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And fear seized on all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has been raised up amongst us; and God has visited his people.


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and John, having called two of his disciples, sent to Jesus, saying, Art *thou* he that is coming, or are we to wait for another?


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But the men having come to him said, John the baptist has sent us to thee, saying, Art *thou* he that is coming, or are we to wait for another?


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In that hour he healed many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.


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And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;


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And the messengers of John having departed, he began to speak to the crowds concerning John: What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken by the wind?


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But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in delicate garments? Behold, those who are in splendid clothing and live luxuriously are in the courts of kings.


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But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and [what is] more excellent than a prophet.


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This is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;


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for I say unto you, Among them that are born of women a greater [prophet] is no one than John [the baptist]; but he who is a little one in the kingdom of God is greater than he.


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(And all the people who heard [it], and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;


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but the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to themselves the counsel of God, not having been baptised by him.)


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They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another and saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.


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The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold an eater and wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;


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But one of the Pharisees begged him that he would eat with him. And entering into the house of the Pharisee he took his place at table;


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and behold, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, and knew that he was sitting at meat in the house of the Pharisee, having taken an alabaster box of myrrh,


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and standing at his feet behind [him] weeping, began to wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed [them] with the myrrh.


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And the Pharisee who had invited him, seeing it, spoke with himself saying, This [person] if he were a prophet would have known who and what the woman is who touches him, for she is a sinner.


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And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. And he says, Teacher, say [it].


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but as they had nothing to pay, he forgave both of them [their debt]: [say,] which of them therefore will love him most?


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And Simon answering said, I suppose he to whom he forgave the most. And he said to him, Thou hast rightly judged.


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And turning to the woman he said to Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house; thou gavest me not water on my feet, but *she* has washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with her hair.


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For which cause I say to thee, Her many sins are forgiven; for she loved much; but he to whom little is forgiven loves little.


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And they that were with [them] at table began to say within themselves, Who is this who forgives also sins?


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And it came to pass afterwards that *he* went through [the country] city by city, and village by village, preaching and announcing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God; and the twelve [were] with him,


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and certain women who had been healed of wicked spirits and infirmities, Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,


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and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him of their substance.


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And a great crowd coming together, and those who were coming to him out of each city, he spoke by parable:


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The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the way, and it was trodden under foot, and the birds of the heaven devoured it up;


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and other fell into the good ground, and having sprung up bore fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.


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And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, in order that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.


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But those by the wayside are those who hear; then comes the devil and takes away the word from their heart that they may not believe and be saved.


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But those upon the rock, those who when they hear receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of trial fall away.


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But that that fell where the thorns were, these are they who having heard go away and are choked under cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.


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But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.


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And no one having lighted a lamp covers it with a vessel or puts it under a couch, but sets it on a lamp-stand, that they who enter in may see the light.


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For there is nothing hid which shall not become manifest, nor secret which shall not be known and come to light.


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Take heed therefore how ye hear; for whosoever has, to him shall be given, and whosoever has not, even what he seems to have shall be taken from him.


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But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do [it].


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And it came to pass on one of the days, that *he* entered into a ship, himself and his disciples; and he said to them, Let us pass over to the other side of the lake; and they set off from shore.


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And as they sailed, he fell asleep; and a sudden squall of wind came down on the lake, and they were filled [with water], and were in danger;


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and coming to [him] they woke him up, saying, Master, master, we perish. But he, rising up, rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.


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And he said to them, Where is your faith? And, being afraid, they were astonished, saying to one another, Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?


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And as he got out [of the ship] on the land, a certain man out of the city met him, who had demons a long time, and put on no clothes, and did not abide in a house, but in the tombs.


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But seeing Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus Son of the Most High God? I beseech thee torment me not.


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For he had commanded the unclean spirit to go out from the man. For very often it had seized him; and he had been bound, kept with chains and fetters; and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserts.


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And Jesus asked him saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: for many demons had entered into him.


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And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into those; and he suffered them.


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And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.


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But they that fed [them], seeing what had happened, fled, and told [it] to the city and to the country.


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And they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed and sensible, at the feet of Jesus. And they were afraid.


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And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were possessed with great fear; and *he*, entering into the ship, returned.


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But the man out of whom the demons had gone besought him that he might be with him. But he sent him away, saying,


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Return to thine house and relate how great things God has done for thee. And he went away through the whole city, publishing how great things Jesus had done for him.


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And it came to pass when Jesus returned, the crowd received him gladly, for they were all expecting him.


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And behold, a man came, whose name was Jairus, and he was [a] ruler of the synagogue, and falling at the feet of Jesus besought him to come to his house,


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because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And as he went the crowds thronged him.


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And a woman who had a flux of blood since twelve years, who, having spent all her living on physicians, could not be cured by any one,


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And Jesus said, Who has touched me? But all denying, Peter and those with him said, Master, the crowds close thee in and press upon thee, and sayest thou, Who has touched me?


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And the woman, seeing that she was not hid, came trembling, and falling down before him declared before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was immediately healed.


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While he was yet speaking, comes some one from the ruler of the synagogue, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher.


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And when he came to the house he suffered no one to go in but Peter and John and James and the father of the child and the mother.


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And her spirit returned, and immediately she rose up; and he commanded [something] to eat to be given to her.


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And having called together the twelve, he gave them power and authority over all demons, and to heal diseases,


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And he said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; nor to have two body-coats apiece.


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And as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a witness against them.


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And going forth they passed through the villages, announcing the glad tidings and healing everywhere.


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And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were done [by him], and was in perplexity, because it was said by some that John was risen from among [the] dead,


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And Herod said, John *I* have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? and he sought to see him.


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And the apostles having returned related to him whatever they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart into [a desert place of] a city called Bethsaida.


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But the crowds knowing [it] followed him; and he received them and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and cured those that had need of healing.


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But the day began to decline, and the twelve came and said to him, Send away the crowd that they may go into the villages around, and [into] the fields, and lodge and find victuals, for here we are in a desert place.


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And he said to them, Give *ye them to eat. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless *we* should go and buy food for all this people;


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for they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down in companies by fifties.


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And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven he blessed them, and broke and gave to the disciples to set before the crowd.


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And they all ate and were filled; and there was taken up of what had remained over and above to them in fragments twelve hand-baskets.


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And it came to pass as he was praying alone, his disciples were with him, and he asked them saying, Who do the crowds say that I am?


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But they answering said, John the baptist; but others, Elias; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen again.


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And he said to them, But *ye*, who do ye say that I am? And Peter answering said, The Christ of God.


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And he said to [them] all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;


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for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, *he* shall save it.


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For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?


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For whosoever shall have been ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his glory, and [in that] of the Father, and of the holy angels.


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But I say unto you of a truth, There are some of those standing here who shall not taste death until they shall have seen the kingdom of God.


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And it came to pass after these words, about eight days, that taking Peter and John and James he went up into a mountain to pray.


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And as he prayed the fashion of his countenance became different and his raiment white [and] effulgent.


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But Peter and those with him were oppressed with sleep: but having fully awoke up they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.


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And it came to pass as they departed from him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.


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But as he was saying these things, there came a cloud and overshadowed them, and they feared as they entered into the cloud:


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And as the voice was [heard] Jesus was found alone: and *they* kept silence, and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen.


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And it came to pass on the following day, when they came down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.


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And lo, a man from the crowd cried out saying, Teacher, I beseech thee look upon my son, for he is mine only child:


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and behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out, and it tears him with foaming, and with difficulty departs from him after crushing him.


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And Jesus answering said, O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring hither thy son.


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But as he was yet coming, the demon tore him and dragged him all together. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child and gave him back to his father.


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And all were astonished at the glorious greatness of God. And as all wondered at all the things which [Jesus] did, he said to his disciples,


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Do *ye* let these words sink into your ears. For the Son of man is about to be delivered into men's hands.


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But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them that they should not perceive it. And they feared to ask him concerning this saying.


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and said to them, Whosoever shall receive this little child in my name receives me, and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me. For he who is the least among you all, *he* is great.


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And John answering said, Master, we saw some one casting out demons in thy name, and we forbad him, because he follows not with us.


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And it came to pass when the days of his receiving up were fulfilled, that *he* stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.


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And he sent messengers before his face. And having gone they entered into a village of the Samaritans that they might make ready for him.


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And his disciples James and John seeing [it] said, Lord, wilt thou that we speak [that] fire come down from heaven and consume them, as also Elias did?


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And it came to pass as they went in the way, one said to him, I will follow thee wheresoever thou goest, Lord.


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And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes and the birds of the heaven roosting-places, but the Son of man has not where he may lay his head.


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But Jesus said to him, Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, but do *thou* go and announce the kingdom of God.


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And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first allow me to bid adieu to those at my house.


