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            <div class="label">48</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Manasseh and Ephraim</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.48.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later Joseph was told, &#8220;Your father is ill.&#8221; So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.48.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Jacob was told, &#8220;Your son Joseph has come to you,&#8221; Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.48.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.48.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jacob said to Joseph, &#8220;God Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.48.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and said to me, &#8216;I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.48.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.48.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.48.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.48.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As I was returning from Paddan,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath&#8221; (that is, Bethlehem).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.48.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.48.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, &#8220;Who are these?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.48.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.48.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;They are the sons God has given me here,&#8221; Joseph said to his father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.48.9"><span class="content">Then Israel said, &#8220;Bring them to me so I may bless them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.48.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.48.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now Israel&#8217;s eyes were failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.48.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.48.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.48.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.48.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Joseph removed them from Israel&#8217;s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.48.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right toward Israel&#8217;s left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel&#8217;s right hand, and brought them close to him. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.48.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim&#8217;s head, though he was the younger, and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh&#8217;s head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.48.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.48.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then he blessed Joseph and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.48.15"><span class="content">&#8220;May the God before whom my fathers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.48.15"><span class="content">Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.48.15"><span class="content">the God who has been my shepherd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.48.15"><span class="content">all my life to this day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.48.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.48.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the Angel who has delivered me from all harm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.48.16"><span class="content">&#8212;may he bless these boys.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.48.16"><span class="content">May they be called by my name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.48.16"><span class="content">and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.48.16"><span class="content">and may they increase greatly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.48.16"><span class="content">on the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.48.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.48.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When Joseph saw his father placing his right hand on Ephraim&#8217;s head he was displeased; so he took hold of his father&#8217;s hand to move it from Ephraim&#8217;s head to Manasseh&#8217;s head. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.48.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Joseph said to him, &#8220;No, my father, this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.48.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.48.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But his father refused and said, &#8220;I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.48.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He blessed them that day and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.48.20"><span class="content">&#8220;In your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:20 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> name will Israel pronounce this blessing:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.48.20"><span class="content">&#8216;May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.48.20"><span class="content">So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.48.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.48.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;I am about to die, but God will be with you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:21 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and take you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:21 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> back to the land of your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:21 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> fathers. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.48.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And to you I give one more ridge of land</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:22 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">ridge of land </span><span class="ft">is identical with the place name Shechem.</span></span></span><span class="content"> than to your brothers, the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 38</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 38:1-22 is numbered 38:2-23.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David. A petition.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not rebuke me in your anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">or discipline me in your wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your arrows have pierced me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">and your hand has come down on me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My guilt has overwhelmed me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">like a burden too heavy to bear.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My wounds fester and are loathsome</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">because of my sinful folly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am bowed down and brought very low;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">all day long I go about mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My back is filled with searing pain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">there is no health in my body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am feeble and utterly crushed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">I groan in anguish of heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All my longings lie open before you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">my sighing is not hidden from you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My heart pounds, my strength fails me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">even the light has gone from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">my neighbors stay far away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who want to kill me set their traps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">those who would harm me talk of my ruin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">all day long they scheme and lie.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">like the mute, who cannot speak;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I have become like one who does not hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">whose mouth can offer no reply.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I wait for you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">you will answer, Lord my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For I said, &#8220;Do not let them gloat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For I am about to fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">and my pain is ever with me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I confess my iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">I am troubled by my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Many have become my enemies without cause</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:19 </span><span class="ft">One Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">my vigorous enemies</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">those who hate me without reason are numerous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Those who repay my good with evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">lodge accusations against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">though I seek only to do what is good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not forsake me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">do not be far from me, my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Come quickly to help me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="content">my Lord and my Savior.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="m"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ROM.8.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">nor heavenly rulers</span></span></span><span class="content"> neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ROM.8.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God&#8217;s house. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Moses was faithful as a servant in all God&#8217;s house,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:5 </span><span class="ft">Num. 12:7</span></span></span><span class="content"> bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But Christ is faithful as the Son over God&#8217;s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Unbelief</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So, as the Holy Spirit says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">do not harden your hearts</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">as you did in the rebellion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">during the time of testing in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">where your ancestors tested and tried me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="content">though for forty years they saw what I did.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why I was angry with that generation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;Their hearts are always going astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">and they have not known my ways.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So I declared on oath in my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="content">&#8216;They shall never enter my rest.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7-11</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called &#8220;Today,&#8221; so that none of you may be hardened by sin&#8217;s deceitfulness. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As has just been said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">do not harden your hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">as you did in the rebellion.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7,8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HEB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">because those who heard did not combine it with faith</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">&#8220;So I declared on oath in my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">&#8216;They shall never enter my rest.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:11; also in verse 5</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.4.3"><span class="content">And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: &#8220;On the seventh day God rested from all his works.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:2</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And again in the passage above he says, &#8220;They shall never enter my rest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God again set a certain day, calling it &#8220;Today.&#8221; This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Today, if you hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">do not harden your hearts.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 95:7,8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for anyone who enters God&#8217;s rest also rests from their works,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">labor</span></span></span><span class="content"> just as God did from his. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Nothing in all creation is hidden from God&#8217;s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.</span></span></div>
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