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Sustenance (S3-E8)

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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Solomon&#8217;s Song of Songs.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">The main male and female speakers (identified primarily on the basis of the gender of the relevant Hebrew forms) are indicated by the captions </span></span><span class="fqa"><span class="heading">He </span></span><span class="ft"><span class="heading">and </span></span><span class="fqa"><span class="heading">She </span></span><span class="ft"><span class="heading">respectively. The words of others are marked </span></span><span class="fqa"><span class="heading">Friends. </span></span><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In some instances the divisions and their captions are debatable.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="content">for your love is more delightful than wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">your name is like perfume poured out.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">No wonder the young women love you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Take me away with you&#8212;let us hurry!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">Let the king bring me into his chambers.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">We rejoice and delight in you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is masculine singular.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">we will praise your love more than wine.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">How right they are to adore you!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Dark am I, yet lovely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">daughters of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">dark like the tents of Kedar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">like the tent curtains of Solomon.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Salma</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Do not stare at me because I am dark,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">because I am darkened by the sun.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">My mother&#8217;s sons were angry with me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">and made me take care of the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">my own vineyard I had to neglect.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Tell me, you whom I love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">where you graze your flock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">and where you rest your sheep at midday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">Why should I be like a veiled woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">beside the flocks of your friends?</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you do not know, most beautiful of women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">follow the tracks of the sheep</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">and graze your young goats</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">by the tents of the shepherds.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I liken you, my darling, to a mare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="content">among Pharaoh&#8217;s chariot horses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="content">your neck with strings of jewels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We will make you earrings of gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="content">studded with silver.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While the king was at his table,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="content">my perfume spread its fragrance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="content">resting between my breasts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="content">from the vineyards of En Gedi.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">How beautiful you are, my darling!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">Oh, how beautiful!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">Your eyes are doves.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">How handsome you are, my beloved!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">Oh, how charming!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">And our bed is verdant.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The beams of our house are cedars;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.1.17"><span class="content">our rafters are firs.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">Or </span></span><span class="fqa"><span class="heading">He</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I am a rose</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Probably a member of the crocus family</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Sharon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.2.1"><span class="content">a lily of the valleys.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like a lily among thorns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.2.2"><span class="content">is my darling among the young women.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Like an apple</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:3 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">apricot</span><span class="ft">; here and elsewhere in Song of Songs</span></span></span><span class="content"> tree among the trees of the forest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="content">is my beloved among the young men.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="content">I delight to sit in his shade,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="content">and his fruit is sweet to my taste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let him lead me to the banquet hall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.2.4"><span class="content">and let his banner over me be love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Strengthen me with raisins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.2.5"><span class="content">refresh me with apples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.2.5"><span class="content">for I am faint with love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">His left arm is under my head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.2.6"><span class="content">and his right arm embraces me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="content">by the gazelles and by the does of the field:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="content">Do not arouse or awaken love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="content">until it so desires.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Listen! My beloved!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="content">Look! Here he comes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="content">leaping across the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="content">bounding over the hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">Look! There he stands behind our wall,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">gazing through the windows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">peering through the lattice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My beloved spoke and said to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.2.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Arise, my darling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.2.10"><span class="content">my beautiful one, come with me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">See! The winter is past;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.2.11"><span class="content">the rains are over and gone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Flowers appear on the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="content">the season of singing has come,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="content">the cooing of doves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="content">is heard in our land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The fig tree forms its early fruit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="content">the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="content">Arise, come, my darling;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="content">my beautiful one, come with me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My dove in the clefts of the rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">in the hiding places on the mountainside,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">show me your face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">let me hear your voice;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">for your voice is sweet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">and your face is lovely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Catch for us the foxes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="content">the little foxes</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="content">that ruin the vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="content">our vineyards that are in bloom.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">My beloved is mine and I am his;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.2.16"><span class="content">he browses among the lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Until the day breaks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="content">and the shadows flee,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="content">turn, my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="content">and be like a gazelle</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="content">or like a young stag</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="SNG.2.17"><span class="content">on the rugged hills.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the hills of Bether</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">All night long on my bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.3.1"><span class="content">I looked for the one my heart loves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.3.1"><span class="content">I looked for him but did not find him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will get up now and go about the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="content">through its streets and squares;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="content">I will search for the one my heart loves.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="content">So I looked for him but did not find him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The watchmen found me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.3.3"><span class="content">as they made their rounds in the city.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.3.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Have you seen the one my heart loves?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Scarcely had I passed them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">when I found the one my heart loves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">I held him and would not let him go</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">till I had brought him to my mother&#8217;s house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">to the room of the one who conceived me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="content">by the gazelles and by the does of the field:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="content">Do not arouse or awaken love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="content">until it so desires.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Who is this coming up from the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="content">like a column of smoke,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="content">perfumed with myrrh and incense</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="content">made from all the spices of the merchant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Look! It is Solomon&#8217;s carriage,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.3.7"><span class="content">escorted by sixty warriors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.3.7"><span class="content">the noblest of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">all of them wearing the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="content">all experienced in battle,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="content">each with his sword at his side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="content">prepared for the terrors of the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">King Solomon made for himself the carriage;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.3.9"><span class="content">he made it of wood from Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Its posts he made of silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="content">its base of gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="content">Its seat was upholstered with purple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="content">its interior inlaid with love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.3.10"><span class="content">Daughters of Jerusalem, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">come out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="content">and look, you daughters of Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="content">Look</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:10,11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">interior lovingly inlaid / by the daughters of Jerusalem. / </span><span class="fv">11 </span><span class="fqa">Come out, you daughters of Zion, / and look</span></span></span><span class="content"> on King Solomon wearing a crown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="content">the crown with which his mother crowned him</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="content">on the day of his wedding,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.3.11"><span class="content">the day his heart rejoiced.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How beautiful you are, my darling!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Oh, how beautiful!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Your eyes behind your veil are doves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Your hair is like a flock of goats</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">descending from the hills of Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">coming up from the washing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">Each has its twin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">not one of them is alone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">your mouth is lovely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">Your temples behind your veil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">are like the halves of a pomegranate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your neck is like the tower of David,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">built with courses of stone</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">on it hang a thousand shields,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">all of them shields of warriors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your breasts are like two fawns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="content">like twin fawns of a gazelle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="content">that browse among the lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Until the day breaks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">and the shadows flee,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">I will go to the mountain of myrrh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">and to the hill of incense.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You are altogether beautiful, my darling;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"><span class="content">there is no flaw in you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">come with me from Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">Descend from the crest of Amana,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">from the lions&#8217; dens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">and the mountain haunts of leopards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">you have stolen my heart</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">with one glance of your eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">with one jewel of your necklace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">How much more pleasing is your love than wine,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">and the fragrance of your perfume</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">more than any spice!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">milk and honey are under your tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">The fragrance of your garments</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">is like the fragrance of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.4.12"><span class="content">you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="content">with choice fruits,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="content">with henna and nard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">nard and saffron,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">calamus and cinnamon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">with every kind of incense tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">with myrrh and aloes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">and all the finest spices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You are</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">I am </span><span class="ft">(spoken by </span><span class="fqa">She</span><span class="ft">)</span></span></span><span class="content"> a garden fountain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="content">a well of flowing water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="content">streaming down from Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Awake, north wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">and come, south wind!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">Blow on my garden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">that its fragrance may spread everywhere.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">Let my beloved come into his garden</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">and taste its choice fruits.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2JN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The elder,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2JN.1.1"><span class="content">To the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth&#8212;and not I only, but also all who know the truth&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2JN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2JN.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father&#8217;s Son, will be with us in truth and love.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2JN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2JN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2JN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2JN.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2JN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2JN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Watch out that you do not lose what we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:8 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">you</span></span></span><span class="content"> have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2JN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2JN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2JN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2JN.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2JN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The children of your sister, who is chosen by God, send their greetings.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch26" data-usfm="DEU.26">
         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Firstfruits and Tithes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When you have entered the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and say to the priest in office at the time, &#8220;I declare today to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God that I have come to the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> swore to our ancestors to give us.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then you shall declare before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God: &#8220;My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, subjecting us to harsh labor. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then we cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of our ancestors, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have given me.&#8221; Place the basket before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and bow down before him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then you and the Levites and the foreigners residing among you shall rejoice in all the good things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has given to you and your household.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then say to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God: &#8220;I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God; I have done everything you commanded me. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Look down from heaven, your holy dwelling place, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Follow the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Commands</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God commands you this day to follow these decrees and laws; carefully observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You have declared this day that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is your God and that you will walk in obedience to him, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws&#8212;that you will listen to him. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He has declared that he will set you in praise, fame and honor high above all the nations he has made and that you will be a people holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, as he promised.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Altar on Mount Ebal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: &#8220;Keep all these commands that I give you today. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors, promised you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat them with plaster. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Build there an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Build the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law on these stones you have set up.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Curses From Mount Ebal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, &#8220;Be silent, Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Obey the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and follow his commands and decrees that I give you today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On the same day Moses commanded the people:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who makes an idol&#8212;a thing detestable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the work of skilled hands&#8212;and sets it up in secret.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.27.15"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.27.16"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor&#8217;s boundary stone.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.27.17"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.27.18"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.27.19"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father&#8217;s wife, for he dishonors his father&#8217;s bed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.27.20"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.27.21"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.27.22"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.27.23"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.27.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who kills their neighbor secretly.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.27.24"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.27.25"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.27.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.27.26"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="NEH.10">
         <div class="label">10</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 10:1-39 is numbered 10:2-40. </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Those who sealed it were:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.10.1"><span class="content">Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.10.1"><span class="content">Zedekiah, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Pashhur, Amariah, Malkijah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluk,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Maaziah, Bilgai and Shemaiah.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.10.8"><span class="content">These were the priests.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Levites:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.10.9"><span class="content">Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and their associates: Shebaniah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.10.10"><span class="content">Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Mika, Rehob, Hashabiah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Zakkur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Hodiah, Bani and Beninu.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The leaders of the people:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.10.14"><span class="content">Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NEH.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NEH.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NEH.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NEH.10.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NEH.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NEH.10.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NEH.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NEH.10.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NEH.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NEH.10.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Malluk, Harim and Baanah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.10.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NEH.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;The rest of the people&#8212;priests, Levites, gatekeepers, musicians, temple servants and all who separated themselves from the neighboring peoples for the sake of the Law of God, together with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NEH.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our Lord.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NEH.10.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NEH.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NEH.10.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.10.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NEH.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;We assume the responsibility for carrying out the commands to give a third of a shekel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:32 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1/8 ounce or about 4 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> each year for the service of the house of our God: </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NEH.10.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">for the bread set out on the table; for the regular grain offerings and burnt offerings; for the offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New Moon feasts and at the appointed festivals; for the holy offerings; for sin offerings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offerings</span></span></span><span class="content"> to make atonement for Israel; and for all the duties of the house of our God.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NEH.10.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NEH.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;We&#8212;the priests, the Levites and the people&#8212;have cast lots to determine when each of our families is to bring to the house of our God at set times each year a contribution of wood to burn on the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, as it is written in the Law.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NEH.10.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NEH.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;We also assume responsibility for bringing to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> each year the firstfruits of our crops and of every fruit tree.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NEH.10.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NEH.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;As it is also written in the Law, we will bring the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, of our herds and of our flocks to the house of our God, to the priests ministering there.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NEH.10.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NEH.10.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">&#8220;Moreover, we will bring to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the priests, the first of our ground meal, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees and of our new wine and olive oil. And we will bring a tithe of our crops to the Levites, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we work. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NEH.10.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">A priest descended from Aaron is to accompany the Levites when they receive the tithes, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of the tithes up to the house of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NEH.10.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">The people of Israel, including the Levites, are to bring their contributions of grain, new wine and olive oil to the storerooms, where the articles for the sanctuary and for the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the musicians are also kept.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NEH.10.39"><span class="content">&#8220;We will not neglect the house of our God.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The New Residents of Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten of them to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine were to stay in their own towns. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The people commended all who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">These are the provincial leaders who settled in Jerusalem (now some Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants and descendants of Solomon&#8217;s servants lived in the towns of Judah, each on their own property in the various towns, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">while other people from both Judah and Benjamin lived in Jerusalem):</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.11.4"><span class="content">From the descendants of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.11.4"><span class="content">Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, a descendant of Perez; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and Maaseiah son of Baruch, the son of Kol-Hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, a descendant of Shelah. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The descendants of Perez who lived in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of standing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">From the descendants of Benjamin:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.11.7"><span class="content">Sallu son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and his followers, Gabbai and Sallai&#8212;928 men. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Joel son of Zikri was their chief officer, and Judah son of Hassenuah was over the New Quarter of the city.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">From the priests:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.11.10"><span class="content">Jedaiah; the son of Joiarib; Jakin; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Seraiah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the official in charge of the house of God, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">and their associates, who carried on work for the temple&#8212;822 men; Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malkijah, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and his associates, who were heads of families&#8212;242 men; Amashsai son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and his</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:14 </span><span class="ft">Most Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">their</span></span></span><span class="content"> associates, who were men of standing&#8212;128. Their chief officer was Zabdiel son of Haggedolim.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">From the Levites:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.11.15"><span class="content">Shemaiah son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Shabbethai and Jozabad, two of the heads of the Levites, who had charge of the outside work of the house of God; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Mattaniah son of Mika, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, the director who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The Levites in the holy city totaled 284.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The gatekeepers:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.11.19"><span class="content">Akkub, Talmon and their associates, who kept watch at the gates&#8212;172 men.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The rest of the Israelites, with the priests and Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, each on their ancestral property.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NEH.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The temple servants lived on the hill of Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were in charge of them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NEH.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The chief officer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mika. Uzzi was one of Asaph&#8217;s descendants, who were the musicians responsible for the service of the house of God. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NEH.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The musicians were under the king&#8217;s orders, which regulated their daily activity.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NEH.11.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NEH.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, one of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was the king&#8217;s agent in all affairs relating to the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NEH.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NEH.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its surrounding settlements, in Dibon and its settlements, in Jekabzeel and its villages, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NEH.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">in Jeshua, in Moladah, in Beth Pelet, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its settlements, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NEH.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">in Ziklag, in Mekonah and its settlements, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NEH.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NEH.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Zanoah, Adullam and their villages, in Lachish and its fields, and in Azekah and its settlements. So they were living all the way from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NEH.11.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The descendants of the Benjamites from Geba lived in Mikmash, Aija, Bethel and its settlements, </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NEH.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">in Anathoth, Nob and Ananiah, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NEH.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">in Hazor, Ramah and Gittaim, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NEH.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">in Hadid, Zeboim and Neballat, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NEH.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">in Lod and Ono, and in Ge Harashim.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NEH.11.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NEH.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Some of the divisions of the Levites of Judah settled in Benjamin.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Priests and Levites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These were the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Joshua:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.12.1"><span class="content">Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Amariah, Malluk, Hattush,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Shekaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Iddo, Ginnethon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:4 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts and Vulgate (see also verse 16); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Ginnethoi</span></span></span><span class="content"> Abijah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Mijamin,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">A variant of </span><span class="fqa">Miniamin</span></span></span><span class="content"> Moadiah, Bilgah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah and Jedaiah.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.12.7"><span class="content">These were the leaders of the priests and their associates in the days of Joshua.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and also Mattaniah, who, together with his associates, was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Bakbukiah and Unni, their associates, stood opposite them in the services.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Joshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Joiada the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan the father of Jaddua.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In the days of Joiakim, these were the heads of the priestly families:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.12.12"><span class="content">of Seraiah&#8217;s family, Meraiah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.12.12"><span class="content">of Jeremiah&#8217;s, Hananiah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">of Ezra&#8217;s, Meshullam;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.12.13"><span class="content">of Amariah&#8217;s, Jehohanan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">of Malluk&#8217;s, Jonathan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.12.14"><span class="content">of Shekaniah&#8217;s,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:14 </span><span class="ft">Very many Hebrew manuscripts, some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also verse 3); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Shebaniah&#8217;s</span></span></span><span class="content"> Joseph;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.12.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">of Harim&#8217;s, Adna;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.12.15"><span class="content">of Meremoth&#8217;s,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:15 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also verse 3); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Meraioth&#8217;s</span></span></span><span class="content"> Helkai;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.12.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">of Iddo&#8217;s, Zechariah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.12.16"><span class="content">of Ginnethon&#8217;s, Meshullam;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.12.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">of Abijah&#8217;s, Zikri;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.12.17"><span class="content">of Miniamin&#8217;s and of Moadiah&#8217;s, Piltai;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">of Bilgah&#8217;s, Shammua;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.12.18"><span class="content">of Shemaiah&#8217;s, Jehonathan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.12.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">of Joiarib&#8217;s, Mattenai;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.12.19"><span class="content">of Jedaiah&#8217;s, Uzzi;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.12.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">of Sallu&#8217;s, Kallai;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.12.20"><span class="content">of Amok&#8217;s, Eber;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NEH.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">of Hilkiah&#8217;s, Hashabiah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NEH.12.21"><span class="content">of Jedaiah&#8217;s, Nethanel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NEH.12.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The family heads of the Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua, as well as those of the priests, were recorded in the reign of Darius the Persian. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NEH.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The family heads among the descendants of Levi up to the time of Johanan son of Eliashib were recorded in the book of the annals. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NEH.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And the leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their associates, who stood opposite them to give praise and thanksgiving, one section responding to the other, as prescribed by David the man of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NEH.12.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NEH.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NEH.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They served in the days of Joiakim son of Joshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra the priest, the teacher of the Law.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dedication of the Wall of Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NEH.12.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NEH.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The musicians also were brought together from the region around Jerusalem&#8212;from the villages of the Netophathites, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NEH.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">from Beth Gilgal, and from the area of Geba and Azmaveth, for the musicians had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NEH.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When the priests and Levites had purified themselves ceremonially, they purified the people, the gates and the wall.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NEH.12.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I had the leaders of Judah go up on top of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:31 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">go alongside</span></span></span><span class="content"> the wall. I also assigned two large choirs to give thanks. One was to proceed on top of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:31 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">proceed alongside</span></span></span><span class="content"> the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NEH.12.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed them, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NEH.12.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">along with Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NEH.12.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NEH.12.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">as well as some priests with trumpets, and also Zechariah son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zakkur, the son of Asaph, </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NEH.12.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">and his associates&#8212;Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah and Hanani&#8212;with musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the teacher of the Law led the procession. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NEH.12.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">At the Fountain Gate they continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the site of David&#8217;s palace to the Water Gate on the east.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NEH.12.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NEH.12.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">The second choir proceeded in the opposite direction. I followed them on top of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them alongside</span></span></span><span class="content"> the wall, together with half the people&#8212;past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NEH.12.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:39 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Old</span></span></span><span class="content"> Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. At the Gate of the Guard they stopped.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NEH.12.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NEH.12.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">The two choirs that gave thanks then took their places in the house of God; so did I, together with half the officials, </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NEH.12.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">as well as the priests&#8212;Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah and Hananiah with their trumpets&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NEH.12.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malkijah, Elam and Ezer. The choirs sang under the direction of Jezrahiah. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NEH.12.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">And on that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard far away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NEH.12.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NEH.12.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">At that time men were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms for the contributions, firstfruits and tithes. From the fields around the towns they were to bring into the storerooms the portions required by the Law for the priests and the Levites, for Judah was pleased with the ministering priests and Levites. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NEH.12.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did also the musicians and gatekeepers, according to the commands of David and his son Solomon. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="NEH.12.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors for the musicians and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="NEH.12.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">So in the days of Zerubbabel and of Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the musicians and the gatekeepers. They also set aside the portion for the other Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nehemiah&#8217;s Final Reforms</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NEH.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NEH.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.) </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NEH.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NEH.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil prescribed for the Levites, musicians and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NEH.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NEH.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NEH.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NEH.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah&#8217;s household goods out of the room. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NEH.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NEH.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So I rebuked the officials and asked them, &#8220;Why is the house of God neglected?&#8221; Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">All Judah brought the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zakkur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because they were considered trustworthy. They were made responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">People from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath to the people of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, &#8220;What is this wicked thing you are doing&#8212;desecrating the Sabbath day? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Didn&#8217;t your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NEH.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But I warned them and said, &#8220;Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you.&#8221; From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.13.22"><span class="content">Remember me for this also, my God, and show mercy to me according to your great love.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NEH.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NEH.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NEH.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NEH.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God&#8217;s name and said: &#8220;You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NEH.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NEH.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NEH.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I drove him away from me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NEH.13.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NEH.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Remember them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NEH.13.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NEH.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NEH.13.31"><span class="content">Remember me with favor, my God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wisdom</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A good name is better than fine perfume,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.7.1"><span class="content">and the day of death better than the day of birth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It is better to go to a house of mourning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="content">than to go to a house of feasting,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="content">for death is the destiny of everyone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="content">the living should take this to heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Frustration is better than laughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.7.3"><span class="content">because a sad face is good for the heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.7.4"><span class="content">but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.7.5"><span class="content">than to listen to the song of fools.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Like the crackling of thorns under the pot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.7.6"><span class="content">so is the laughter of fools.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.7.6"><span class="content">This too is meaningless.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.7.7"><span class="content">and a bribe corrupts the heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The end of a matter is better than its beginning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.7.8"><span class="content">and patience is better than pride.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.7.9"><span class="content">for anger resides in the lap of fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not say, &#8220;Why were the old days better than these?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.7.10"><span class="content">For it is not wise to ask such questions.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.7.11"><span class="content">and benefits those who see the sun.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Wisdom is a shelter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="content">as money is a shelter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="content">but the advantage of knowledge is this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="content">Wisdom preserves those who have it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Consider what God has done:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.7.13"><span class="content">Who can straighten</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.7.13"><span class="content">what he has made crooked?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When times are good, be happy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">but when times are bad, consider this:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">God has made the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">as well as the other.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">Therefore, no one can discover</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">anything about their future.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.7.15"><span class="content">the righteous perishing in their righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.7.15"><span class="content">and the wicked living long in their wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not be overrighteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.7.16"><span class="content">neither be overwise&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.7.16"><span class="content">why destroy yourself?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not be overwicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.7.17"><span class="content">and do not be a fool&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.7.17"><span class="content">why die before your time?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">It is good to grasp the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.7.18"><span class="content">and not let go of the other.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.7.18"><span class="content">Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will follow them both</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ECC.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ECC.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ECC.7.19"><span class="content">than ten rulers in a city.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ECC.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ECC.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ECC.7.20"><span class="content">no one who does what is right and never sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ECC.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ECC.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not pay attention to every word people say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ECC.7.21"><span class="content">or you may hear your servant cursing you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ECC.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ECC.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for you know in your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ECC.7.22"><span class="content">that many times you yourself have cursed others.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ECC.7.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ECC.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">All this I tested by wisdom and I said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ECC.7.23"><span class="content">&#8220;I am determined to be wise&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ECC.7.23"><span class="content">but this was beyond me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ECC.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ECC.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Whatever exists is far off and most profound&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ECC.7.24"><span class="content">who can discover it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ECC.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So I turned my mind to understand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="content">to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="content">and to understand the stupidity of wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="content">and the madness of folly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ECC.7.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I find more bitter than death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">the woman who is a snare,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">whose heart is a trap</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">and whose hands are chains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">The man who pleases God will escape her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">but the sinner she will ensnare.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ECC.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ECC.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; says the Teacher,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the leader of the assembly</span></span></span><span class="content"> &#8220;this is what I have discovered:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ECC.7.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ECC.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">while I was still searching</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="content">but not finding&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="content">I found one upright man among a thousand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="content">but not one upright woman among them all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ECC.7.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ECC.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">This only have I found:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ECC.7.29"><span class="content">God created mankind upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ECC.7.29"><span class="content">but they have gone in search of many schemes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Who is like the wise?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="content">Who knows the explanation of things?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="content">A person&#8217;s wisdom brightens their face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="content">and changes its hard appearance.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Obey the King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Obey the king&#8217;s command, I say, because you took an oath before God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do not be in a hurry to leave the king&#8217;s presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since a king&#8217;s word is supreme, who can say to him, &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.8.5"><span class="content">and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.8.6"><span class="content">though a person may be weighed down by misery.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Since no one knows the future,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.8.7"><span class="content">who can tell someone else what is to come?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As no one has power over the wind to contain it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="content">so</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">over the human spirit to retain it, / and so</span></span></span><span class="content"> no one has power over the time of their death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="content">As no one is discharged in time of war,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="content">so wickedness will not release those who practice it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to their</span></span></span><span class="content"> hurt. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then too, I saw the wicked buried&#8212;those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:10 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (Aquila); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">and are forgotten</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people&#8217;s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ECC.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ECC.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth&#8212;people getting no sleep day or night&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ECC.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">144,000 Sealed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">from the tribe of Gad 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Asher 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">from the tribe of Levi 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Great Multitude in White Robes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And they cried out in a loud voice:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Salvation belongs to our God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">who sits on the throne,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">and to the Lamb.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Amen!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">Praise and glory</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">and wisdom and thanks and honor</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">and power and strength</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">be to our God for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then one of the elders asked me, &#8220;These in white robes&#8212;who are they, and where did they come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I answered, &#8220;Sir, you know.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.7.14"><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">&#8220;they are before the throne of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">and serve him day and night in his temple;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">and he who sits on the throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">will shelter them with his presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8216;Never again will they hunger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">never again will they thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">The sun will not beat down on them,&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:16 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">nor any scorching heat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the Lamb at the center of the throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">will be their shepherd;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">&#8216;he will lead them to springs of living water.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">&#8216;And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 25:8</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God&#8217;s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God&#8217;s people, went up before God from the angel&#8217;s hand. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Trumpets</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the name of the star is Wormwood.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:11 </span><span class="ft">Wormwood is a bitter substance.</span></span></span><span class="content"> A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: &#8220;Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their hair was like women&#8217;s hair, and their teeth were like lions&#8217; teeth. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, &#8220;Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood&#8212;idols that cannot see or hear or walk. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="REV.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Angel and the Little Scroll</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, &#8220;Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, &#8220;There will be no more delay! </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: &#8220;Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, &#8220;Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but &#8216;in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:9 </span><span class="ft">Ezek. 3:3</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I took the little scroll from the angel&#8217;s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then I was told, &#8220;You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Two Witnesses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, &#8220;Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They are &#8220;the two olive trees&#8221; and the two lampstands, and &#8220;they stand before the Lord of the earth.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:4 </span><span class="ft">See Zech. 4:3,11,14.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city&#8212;which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt&#8212;where also their Lord was crucified. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But after the three and a half days the breath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit </span><span class="ft">(see Ezek. 37:5,14)</span></span></span><span class="content"> of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, &#8220;Come up here.&#8221; And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Seventh Trumpet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">&#8220;The kingdom of the world has become</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">and he will reign for ever and ever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">&#8220;We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">the One who is and who was,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">because you have taken your great power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">and have begun to reign.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The nations were angry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and your wrath has come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">The time has come for judging the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and for rewarding your servants the prophets</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and your people who revere your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">both great and small&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and for destroying those who destroy the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God&#8217;s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, &#8220;My brothers, I have fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience to this day.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">At this the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Paul said to him, &#8220;God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who were standing near Paul said, &#8220;How dare you insult God&#8217;s high priest!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Paul replied, &#8220;Brothers, I did not realize that he was the high priest; for it is written: &#8216;Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:5 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 22:28</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, &#8220;My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">(The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees stood up and argued vigorously. &#8220;We find nothing wrong with this man,&#8221; they said. &#8220;What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them. He ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force and bring him into the barracks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plot to Kill Paul</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The next morning some Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">More than forty men were involved in this plot. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They went to the chief priests and the elders and said, &#8220;We have taken a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him before you on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about his case. We are ready to kill him before he gets here.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But when the son of Paul&#8217;s sister heard of this plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, &#8220;Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So he took him to the commander.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.23.18"><span class="content">The centurion said, &#8220;Paul, the prisoner, sent for me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside and asked, &#8220;What is it you want to tell me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He said: &#8220;Some Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul before the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about him. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t give in to them, because more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are ready now, waiting for your consent to their request.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The commander dismissed the young man with this warning: &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell anyone that you have reported this to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Transferred to Caesarea</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then he called two of his centurions and ordered them, &#8220;Get ready a detachment of two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:23 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Greek for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go to Caesarea at nine tonight. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Provide horses for Paul so that he may be taken safely to Governor Felix.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.23.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He wrote a letter as follows:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Claudius Lysias,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="content">To His Excellency, Governor Felix:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="content">Greetings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, but I came with my troops and rescued him, for I had learned that he is a Roman citizen. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I wanted to know why they were accusing him, so I brought him to their Sanhedrin. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I found that the accusation had to do with questions about their law, but there was no charge against him that deserved death or imprisonment. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When I was informed of a plot to be carried out against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also ordered his accusers to present to you their case against him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul with them during the night and brought him as far as Antipatris. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The next day they let the cavalry go on with him, while they returned to the barracks. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When the cavalry arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the letter to the governor and handed Paul over to him. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The governor read the letter and asked what province he was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">he said, &#8220;I will hear your case when your accusers get here.&#8221; Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod&#8217;s palace.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="ACT.24">
         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Trial Before Felix</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Five days later the high priest Ananias went down to Caesarea with some of the elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, and they brought their charges against Paul before the governor. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Paul was called in, Tertullus presented his case before Felix: &#8220;We have enjoyed a long period of peace under you, and your foresight has brought about reforms in this nation. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Everywhere and in every way, most excellent Felix, we acknowledge this with profound gratitude. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But in order not to weary you further, I would request that you be kind enough to hear us briefly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;We have found this man to be a troublemaker, stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.24.7"><span class="label">[7]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:6-7 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here </span><span class="fqa">him, and we would have judged him in accordance with our law. </span><span class="fv">7 </span><span class="fqa">But the commander Lysias came and took him from us with much violence, </span><span class="fv">8 </span><span class="fqa">ordering his accusers to come before you.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By examining him yourself you will be able to learn the truth about all these charges we are bringing against him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The other Jews joined in the accusation, asserting that these things were true.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the governor motioned for him to speak, Paul replied: &#8220;I know that for a number of years you have been a judge over this nation; so I gladly make my defense. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You can easily verify that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">My accusers did not find me arguing with anyone at the temple, or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And they cannot prove to you the charges they are now making against me. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I was ceremonially clean when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But there are some Jews from the province of Asia, who ought to be here before you and bring charges if they have anything against me. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Or these who are here should state what crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">unless it was this one thing I shouted as I stood in their presence: &#8216;It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Felix, who was well acquainted with the Way, adjourned the proceedings. &#8220;When Lysias the commander comes,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will decide your case.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard but to give him some freedom and permit his friends to take care of his needs.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Several days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him as he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As Paul talked about righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and said, &#8220;That&#8217;s enough for now! You may leave. When I find it convenient, I will send for you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.24.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">At the same time he was hoping that Paul would offer him a bribe, so he sent for him frequently and talked with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.24.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.24.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, but because Felix wanted to grant a favor to the Jews, he left Paul in prison.</span></span></div>
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