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         <div class="label">32</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Golden Calf</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, &#8220;Come, make us gods</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a god</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 23 and 31</span></span></span><span class="content"> who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don&#8217;t know what has happened to him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.32.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Aaron answered them, &#8220;Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, &#8220;These are your gods,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">This is your god</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 8</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, &#8220;Tomorrow there will be a festival to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, &#8216;These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have seen these people,&#8221; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;and they are a stiff-necked people. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But Moses sought the favor of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God. &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; he said, &#8220;why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why should the Egyptians say, &#8216;It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth&#8217;? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: &#8216;I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, &#8220;There is the sound of war in the camp.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.32.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Moses replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not the sound of victory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="content">it is not the sound of defeat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="content">it is the sound of singing that I hear.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.32.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.32.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.32.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He said to Aaron, &#8220;What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.32.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be angry, my lord,&#8221; Aaron answered. &#8220;You know how prone these people are to evil. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.32.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They said to me, &#8216;Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don&#8217;t know what has happened to him.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.32.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So I told them, &#8216;Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.&#8217; Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.32.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.32.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.32.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, &#8220;Whoever is for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, come to me.&#8221; And all the Levites rallied to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.32.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.32.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then he said to them, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.32.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.32.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then Moses said, &#8220;You have been set apart to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.32.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.32.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The next day Moses said to the people, &#8220;You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.32.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.32.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So Moses went back to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.32.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But now, please forgive their sin&#8212;but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.32.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.32.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied to Moses, &#8220;Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.32.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.32.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EXO.32.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">33</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, &#8216;I will give it to your descendants.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.33.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said to Moses, &#8220;Tell the Israelites, &#8216;You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Tent of Meeting</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.33.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the &#8220;tent of meeting.&#8221; Anyone inquiring of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke with Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moses and the Glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;You have been telling me, &#8216;Lead these people,&#8217; but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, &#8216;I know you by name and you have found favor with me.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.33.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.33.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Moses said to him, &#8220;If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.33.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.33.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Moses said, &#8220;Now show me your glory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.33.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But,&#8221; he said, &#8220;you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.33.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.33.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.33.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.33.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">39</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 39</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 39:1-13 is numbered 39:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will watch my ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">and keep my tongue from sin;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">I will put a muzzle on my mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">while in the presence of the wicked.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I remained utterly silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="content">not even saying anything good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="content">But my anguish increased;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">my heart grew hot within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="content">While I meditated, the fire burned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="content">then I spoke with my tongue:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Show me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my life&#8217;s end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="content">and the number of my days;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="content">let me know how fleeting my life is.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have made my days a mere handbreadth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">the span of my years is as nothing before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">Everyone is but a breath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">even those who seem secure.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">39:5 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">without knowing whose it will finally be.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.39.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now, Lord, what do I look for?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.39.7"><span class="content">My hope is in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.39.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.39.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Save me from all my transgressions;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.39.8"><span class="content">do not make me the scorn of fools.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.39.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.39.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I was silent; I would not open my mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.39.9"><span class="content">for you are the one who has done this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.39.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.39.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Remove your scourge from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.39.10"><span class="content">I am overcome by the blow of your hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.39.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="content">you consume their wealth like a moth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="content">surely everyone is but a breath.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear my prayer, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">listen to my cry for help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">do not be deaf to my weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">I dwell with you as a foreigner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">a stranger, as all my ancestors were.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.39.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.39.13"><span class="content">before I depart and am no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A wise son heeds his father&#8217;s instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.13.1"><span class="content">but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From the fruit of their lips people enjoy good things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.13.2"><span class="content">but the unfaithful have an appetite for violence.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Those who guard their lips preserve their lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.13.3"><span class="content">but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">A sluggard&#8217;s appetite is never filled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.13.4"><span class="content">but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The righteous hate what is false,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.13.5"><span class="content">but the wicked make themselves a stench</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.13.5"><span class="content">and bring shame on themselves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Righteousness guards the person of integrity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.13.6"><span class="content">but wickedness overthrows the sinner.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.13.7"><span class="content">another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s riches may ransom their life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.13.8"><span class="content">but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The light of the righteous shines brightly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.13.9"><span class="content">but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Where there is strife, there is pride,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.13.10"><span class="content">but wisdom is found in those who take advice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Dishonest money dwindles away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.13.11"><span class="content">but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Hope deferred makes the heart sick,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.13.12"><span class="content">but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Whoever scorns instruction will pay for it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.13.13"><span class="content">but whoever respects a command is rewarded.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.13.14"><span class="content">turning a person from the snares of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Good judgment wins favor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.13.15"><span class="content">but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:15 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">All who are prudent act with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">prudent protect themselves through</span></span></span><span class="content"> knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.13.16"><span class="content">but fools expose their folly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A wicked messenger falls into trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.13.17"><span class="content">but a trustworthy envoy brings healing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whoever disregards discipline comes to poverty and shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.13.18"><span class="content">but whoever heeds correction is honored.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.13.19"><span class="content">but fools detest turning from evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Walk with the wise and become wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.13.20"><span class="content">for a companion of fools suffers harm.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Trouble pursues the sinner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.13.21"><span class="content">but the righteous are rewarded with good things.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">A good person leaves an inheritance for their children&#8217;s children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.13.22"><span class="content">but a sinner&#8217;s wealth is stored up for the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">An unplowed field produces food for the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.13.23"><span class="content">but injustice sweeps it away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Whoever spares the rod hates their children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.13.24"><span class="content">but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The righteous eat to their hearts&#8217; content,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.13.25"><span class="content">but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Calls His First Disciples</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Sea of Galilee</span></span></span><span class="content"> the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He saw at the water&#8217;s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Simon answered, &#8220;Master, we&#8217;ve worked hard all night and haven&#8217;t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus&#8217; knees and said, &#8220;Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon&#8217;s partners.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.5.10"><span class="content">Then Jesus said to Simon, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:12 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, &#8220;Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am willing,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be clean!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And immediately the leprosy left him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Jesus ordered him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw their faith, he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Friend, your sins are forgiven.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, &#8220;Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Which is easier: to say, &#8216;Your sins are forgiven,&#8217; or to say, &#8216;Get up and walk&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So he said to the paralyzed man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, &#8220;We have seen remarkable things today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Calls Levi and Eats With Sinners</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Follow me,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said to him, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.5.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, &#8220;Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.5.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jesus answered them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Questioned About Fasting</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.5.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.5.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">They said to him, &#8220;John&#8217;s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.5.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.5.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.5.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.5.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.5.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">He told them this parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.5.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.5.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.5.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, &#8216;The old is better.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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