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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God also said to Moses, &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> but by my name the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">See note at 3:15.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I did not make myself fully known to them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, say to the Israelites: &#8216;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">I am uncircumcised of lips</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 30</span></span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Family Record of Moses and Aaron</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">These were the heads of their families</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">families </span><span class="ft">here and in verse 25 refers to units larger than clans.</span></span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.6.14"><span class="content">The sons of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel were Hanok and Pallu, Hezron and Karmi. These were the clans of Reuben.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The sons of Gershon, by clans, were Libni and Shimei.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.6.19"><span class="content">These were the clans of Levi according to their records.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Amram married his father&#8217;s sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg and Zikri.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The sons of Korah were: Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.6.25"><span class="content">These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Bring the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt&#8212;this same Moses and Aaron.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Aaron to Speak for Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Moses in Egypt, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">he said to him, &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkEXO">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="EXO.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I will harden Pharaoh&#8217;s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And the Egyptians will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses and Aaron did just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Aaron&#8217;s Staff Becomes a Snake</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses and Aaron, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;When Pharaoh says to you, &#8216;Perform a miracle,&#8217; then say to Aaron, &#8216;Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,&#8217; and it will become a snake.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron&#8217;s staff swallowed up their staffs. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet Pharaoh&#8217;s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plague of Blood</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Pharaoh&#8217;s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then say to him, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: By this you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Tell Aaron, &#8216;Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt&#8212;over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs&#8212;and they will turn to blood.&#8217; Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">even on their idols</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wood and stone.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moses and Aaron did just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh&#8217;s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plague of Frogs</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Seven days passed after the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck the Nile.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch2" data-usfm="MRK.2">
         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Son, your sins are forgiven.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why does this fellow talk like that? He&#8217;s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you thinking these things?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, &#8216;Your sins are forgiven,&#8217; or to say, &#8216;Get up, take your mat and walk&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So he said to the man, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, &#8220;We have never seen anything like this!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector&#8217;s booth. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Follow me,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">While Jesus was having dinner at Levi&#8217;s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: &#8220;Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">On hearing this, Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Questioned About Fasting</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now John&#8217;s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, &#8220;How is it that John&#8217;s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The Pharisees said to him, &#8220;Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Sayings of Agur</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The sayings of Agur son of Jakeh&#8212;an inspired utterance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.30.1"><span class="content">This man&#8217;s utterance to Ithiel:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.30.1"><span class="content">&#8220;I am weary, God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.30.1"><span class="content">but I can prevail.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:1 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">utterance to Ithiel, / to Ithiel and Ukal:</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Surely I am only a brute, not a man;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.30.2"><span class="content">I do not have human understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I have not learned wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.30.3"><span class="content">nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who has gone up to heaven and come down?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">Whose hands have gathered up the wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">Who has established all the ends of the earth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">What is his name, and what is the name of his son?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">Surely you know!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.30.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Every word of God is flawless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.30.5"><span class="content">he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Do not add to his words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.30.6"><span class="content">or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Two things I ask of you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.30.7"><span class="content">do not refuse me before I die:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep falsehood and lies far from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.30.8"><span class="content">give me neither poverty nor riches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.30.8"><span class="content">but give me only my daily bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.30.9"><span class="content">and say, &#8216;Who is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.30.9"><span class="content">Or I may become poor and steal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.30.9"><span class="content">and so dishonor the name of my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not slander a servant to their master,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.30.10"><span class="content">or they will curse you, and you will pay for it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;There are those who curse their fathers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.30.11"><span class="content">and do not bless their mothers;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">those who are pure in their own eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.30.12"><span class="content">and yet are not cleansed of their filth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">those whose eyes are ever so haughty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.30.13"><span class="content">whose glances are so disdainful;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">those whose teeth are swords</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.30.14"><span class="content">and whose jaws are set with knives</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.30.14"><span class="content">to devour the poor from the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.30.14"><span class="content">and the needy from among mankind.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;The leech has two daughters.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.30.15"><span class="content">&#8216;Give! Give!&#8217; they cry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.30.15"><span class="content">&#8220;There are three things that are never satisfied,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.30.15"><span class="content">four that never say, &#8216;Enough!&#8217;:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the grave, the barren womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.30.16"><span class="content">land, which is never satisfied with water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.30.16"><span class="content">and fire, which never says, &#8216;Enough!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;The eye that mocks a father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.30.17"><span class="content">that scorns an aged mother,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.30.17"><span class="content">will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.30.17"><span class="content">will be eaten by the vultures.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.30.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;There are three things that are too amazing for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.30.18"><span class="content">four that I do not understand:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the way of an eagle in the sky,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.30.19"><span class="content">the way of a snake on a rock,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.30.19"><span class="content">the way of a ship on the high seas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.30.19"><span class="content">and the way of a man with a young woman.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.30.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the way of an adulterous woman:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.30.20"><span class="content">She eats and wipes her mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.30.20"><span class="content">and says, &#8216;I&#8217;ve done nothing wrong.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Under three things the earth trembles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.30.21"><span class="content">under four it cannot bear up:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">a servant who becomes king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.30.22"><span class="content">a godless fool who gets plenty to eat,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">a contemptible woman who gets married,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.30.23"><span class="content">and a servant who displaces her mistress.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.30.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Four things on earth are small,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.30.24"><span class="content">yet they are extremely wise:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Ants are creatures of little strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.30.25"><span class="content">yet they store up their food in the summer;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">hyraxes are creatures of little power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.30.26"><span class="content">yet they make their home in the crags;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">locusts have no king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.30.27"><span class="content">yet they advance together in ranks;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.30.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">a lizard can be caught with the hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.30.28"><span class="content">yet it is found in kings&#8217; palaces.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;There are three things that are stately in their stride,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.30.29"><span class="content">four that move with stately bearing:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.30.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">a lion, mighty among beasts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.30.30"><span class="content">who retreats before nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">a strutting rooster, a he-goat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.30.31"><span class="content">and a king secure against revolt.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:31 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.30.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you play the fool and exalt yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="content">or if you plan evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="content">clap your hand over your mouth!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.30.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">For as churning cream produces butter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.30.33"><span class="content">and as twisting the nose produces blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.30.33"><span class="content">so stirring up anger produces strife.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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