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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Various Laws</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: &#8216;Be holy because I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, am holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When you sacrifice a fellowship offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day; anything left over until the third day must be burned up. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is impure and will not be accepted. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever eats it will be held responsible because they have desecrated what is holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; they must be cut off from their people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not steal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.19.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not lie.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.19.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not deceive one another.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not defraud or rob your neighbor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.19.13"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not go about spreading slander among your people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.19.16"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor&#8217;s life. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Keep my decrees.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.19.19"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not mate different kinds of animals.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.19.19"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.19.19"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be an inquiry</span></span></span><span class="content"> Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the tent of meeting for a guilt offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">With the ram of the guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">uncircumcised</span></span></span><span class="content"> For three years you are to consider it forbidden</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">uncircumcised</span></span></span><span class="content">; it must not be eaten. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.19.26"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not practice divination or seek omens.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LEV.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LEV.19.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.19.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LEV.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LEV.19.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LEV.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LEV.19.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LEV.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LEV.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LEV.19.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LEV.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LEV.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:36 </span><span class="ft">An ephah was a dry measure having the capacity of about 3/5 of a bushel or about 22 liters.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and an honest hin.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:36 </span><span class="ft">A hin was a liquid measure having the capacity of about 1 gallon or about 3.8 liters.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LEV.19.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LEV.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow them. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="LEV.20">
         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Punishments for Sin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to the Israelites: &#8216;Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who makes you holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man commits adultery with another man&#8217;s wife&#8212;with the wife of his neighbor&#8212;both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with his father&#8217;s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will be held responsible; they will die childless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man marries his brother&#8217;s wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But I said to you, &#8220;You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.&#8221; I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who has set you apart from the nations.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.20.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground&#8212;those that I have set apart as unclean for you. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You are to be holy to me because I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wisdom Bestows Well-Being</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, do not forget my teaching,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.3.1"><span class="content">but keep my commands in your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for they will prolong your life many years</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.3.2"><span class="content">and bring you peace and prosperity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let love and faithfulness never leave you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.3.3"><span class="content">bind them around your neck,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.3.3"><span class="content">write them on the tablet of your heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then you will win favor and a good name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.3.4"><span class="content">in the sight of God and man.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with all your heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.3.5"><span class="content">and lean not on your own understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">in all your ways submit to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.3.6"><span class="content">and he will make your paths straight.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will direct your paths</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not be wise in your own eyes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.3.7"><span class="content">fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and shun evil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This will bring health to your body</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.3.8"><span class="content">and nourishment to your bones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Honor the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with your wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.3.9"><span class="content">with the firstfruits of all your crops;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">then your barns will be filled to overflowing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.3.10"><span class="content">and your vats will brim over with new wine.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My son, do not despise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s discipline,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.3.11"><span class="content">and do not resent his rebuke,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> disciplines those he loves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.3.12"><span class="content">as a father the son he delights in.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">loves, / and he chastens everyone he accepts as his child</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Blessed are those who find wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.3.13"><span class="content">those who gain understanding,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">for she is more profitable than silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.3.14"><span class="content">and yields better returns than gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">She is more precious than rubies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.3.15"><span class="content">nothing you desire can compare with her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Long life is in her right hand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.3.16"><span class="content">in her left hand are riches and honor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Her ways are pleasant ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.3.17"><span class="content">and all her paths are peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.3.18"><span class="content">those who hold her fast will be blessed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">By wisdom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> laid the earth&#8217;s foundations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.3.19"><span class="content">by understanding he set the heavens in place;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">by his knowledge the watery depths were divided,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.3.20"><span class="content">and the clouds let drop the dew.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">My son, do not let wisdom and understanding out of your sight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.3.21"><span class="content">preserve sound judgment and discretion;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">they will be life for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.3.22"><span class="content">an ornament to grace your neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then you will go on your way in safety,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.3.23"><span class="content">and your foot will not stumble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When you lie down, you will not be afraid;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.3.24"><span class="content">when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Have no fear of sudden disaster</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.3.25"><span class="content">or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be at your side</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.3.26"><span class="content">and will keep your foot from being snared.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.3.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.3.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.3.27"><span class="content">when it is in your power to act.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.3.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.3.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Do not say to your neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.3.28"><span class="content">&#8220;Come back tomorrow and I&#8217;ll give it to you&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.3.28"><span class="content">when you already have it with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.3.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.3.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Do not plot harm against your neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.3.29"><span class="content">who lives trustfully near you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.3.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.3.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Do not accuse anyone for no reason&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.3.30"><span class="content">when they have done you no harm.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.3.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.3.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Do not envy the violent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.3.31"><span class="content">or choose any of their ways.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.3.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.3.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests the perverse</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.3.32"><span class="content">but takes the upright into his confidence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.3.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.3.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s curse is on the house of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.3.33"><span class="content">but he blesses the home of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.3.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.3.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">He mocks proud mockers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.3.34"><span class="content">but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.3.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.3.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The wise inherit honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.3.35"><span class="content">but fools get only shame.</span></span></div>
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