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   <div class="book bkLEV">
      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="LEV.8">
         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ordination of Aaron and His Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.8.1"><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.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Bring Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 14</span></span></span><span class="content"> the two rams and the basket containing bread made without yeast, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and gather the entire assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Moses did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the tent of meeting.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Moses said to the assembly, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded to be done.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him. He also fastened the ephod with a decorative waistband, which he tied around him. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He placed the breastpiece on him and put the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then he placed the turban on Aaron&#8217;s head and set the gold plate, the sacred emblem, on the front of it, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron&#8217;s head and anointed him to consecrate him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then he brought Aaron&#8217;s sons forward, put tunics on them, tied sashes around them and fastened caps on them, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He then presented the bull for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Moses slaughtered the bull and took some of the blood, and with his finger he put it on all the horns of the altar to purify the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. So he consecrated it to make atonement for it. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Moses also took all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it on the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But the bull with its hide and its flesh and its intestines he burned up outside the camp, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He then presented the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Moses slaughtered the ram and splashed the blood against the sides of the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He cut the ram into pieces and burned the head, the pieces and the fat. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He washed the internal organs and the legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He then presented the other ram, the ram for the ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron&#8217;s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Moses also brought Aaron&#8217;s sons forward and put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he splashed blood against the sides of the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">After that, he took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys and their fat and the right thigh. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And from the basket of bread made without yeast, which was before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, he took one thick loaf, one thick loaf with olive oil mixed in, and one thin loaf, and he put these on the fat portions and on the right thigh. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">He put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons, and they waved them before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as a wave offering. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on top of the burnt offering as an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LEV.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Moses also took the breast, which was his share of the ordination ram, and waved it before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as a wave offering, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LEV.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments and his sons and their garments.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.8.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LEV.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Moses then said to Aaron and his sons, &#8220;Cook the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings, as I was commanded: &#8216;Aaron and his sons are to eat it.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LEV.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then burn up the rest of the meat and the bread. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LEV.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Do not leave the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LEV.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">What has been done today was commanded by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to make atonement for you. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LEV.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">You must stay at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days and do what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> requires, so you will not die; for that is what I have been commanded.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LEV.8.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LEV.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">So Aaron and his sons did everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded through Moses.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch64" data-usfm="ISA.64">
         <div class="label">64</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="content">that the mountains would tremble before you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As when fire sets twigs ablaze</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">and causes water to boil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">come down to make your name known to your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">and cause the nations to quake before you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="content">you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since ancient times no one has heard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">no ear has perceived,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">no eye has seen any God besides you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You come to the help of those who gladly do right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">who remember your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">But when we continued to sin against them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">you were angry.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">How then can we be saved?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">All of us have become like one who is unclean,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">we all shrivel up like a leaf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">and like the wind our sins sweep us away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one calls on your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">or strives to lay hold of you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">for you have hidden your face from us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">and have given us over to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">64:7 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">have made us melt because of</span></span></span><span class="content"> our sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Yet you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are our Father.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">We are the clay, you are the potter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">we are all the work of your hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not be angry beyond measure, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">do not remember our sins forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">Oh, look on us, we pray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">for we are all your people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Your sacred cities have become a wasteland;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="content">even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">has been burned with fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">and all that we treasured lies in ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.64.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After all this, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, will you hold yourself back?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.64.12"><span class="content">Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch65" data-usfm="ISA.65">
         <div class="label">65</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment and Salvation</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">I was found by those who did not seek me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">To a nation that did not call on my name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;Here am I, here am I.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">All day long I have held out my hands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">to an obstinate people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">who walk in ways not good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">pursuing their own imaginations&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">a people who continually provoke me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">to my very face,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">offering sacrifices in gardens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">and burning incense on altars of brick;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who sit among the graves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">who eat the flesh of pigs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who say, &#8216;Keep away; don&#8217;t come near me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">for I am too sacred for you!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">Such people are smoke in my nostrils,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">a fire that keeps burning all day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, it stands written before me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="content">I will not keep silent but will pay back in full;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="content">I will pay it back into their laps&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">and defied me on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">I will measure into their laps</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">the full payment for their former deeds.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">&#8220;As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">and people say, &#8216;Don&#8217;t destroy it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">there is still a blessing in it,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">so will I do in behalf of my servants;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">I will not destroy them all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">and from Judah those who will possess my mountains;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">my chosen people will inherit them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">and there will my servants live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Sharon will become a pasture for flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="content">and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="content">for my people who seek me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;But as for you who forsake the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">and forget my holy mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">who spread a table for Fortune</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will destine you for the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">and all of you will fall in the slaughter;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">for I called but you did not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">I spoke but you did not listen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">You did evil in my sight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">and chose what displeases me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">&#8220;My servants will eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">but you will go hungry;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">my servants will drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">but you will go thirsty;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">my servants will rejoice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">but you will be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My servants will sing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">out of the joy of their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">but you will cry out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">from anguish of heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">and wail in brokenness of spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will leave your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">for my chosen ones to use in their curses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will put you to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">but to his servants he will give another name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whoever invokes a blessing in the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">will do so by the one true God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">whoever takes an oath in the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">will swear by the one true God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">For the past troubles will be forgotten</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">and hidden from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">New Heavens and a New Earth</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will create</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">new heavens and a new earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">The former things will not be remembered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">nor will they come to mind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But be glad and rejoice forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">in what I will create,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">and its people a joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will rejoice over Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">and take delight in my people;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">the sound of weeping and of crying</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">will be heard in it no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Never again will there be in it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">an infant who lives but a few days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">or an old man who does not live out his years;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">the one who dies at a hundred</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">will be thought a mere child;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">the one who fails to reach</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">65:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the sinner who reaches</span></span></span><span class="content"> a hundred</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">will be considered accursed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.65.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They will build houses and dwell in them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.65.21"><span class="content">they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.65.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">No longer will they build houses and others live in them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">or plant and others eat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">For as the days of a tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">so will be the days of my people;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">my chosen ones will long enjoy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">the work of their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They will not labor in vain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">for they will be a people blessed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">they and their descendants with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.65.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Before they call I will answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.65.24"><span class="content">while they are still speaking I will hear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.65.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The wolf and the lamb will feed together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">and the lion will eat straw like the ox,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">and dust will be the serpent&#8217;s food.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">They will neither harm nor destroy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">on all my holy mountain,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Bethzatha</span><span class="ft">; other manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Bethsaida</span></span></span><span class="content"> and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Here a great number of disabled people used to lie&#8212;the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.5.4"><span class="label">[4]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:3,4 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here, wholly or in part, </span><span class="fqa">paralyzed&#8212;and they waited for the moving of the waters. </span><span class="fv">4 </span><span class="fqa">From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you want to get well?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sir,&#8221; the invalid replied, &#8220;I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.5.9"><span class="content">The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, &#8220;It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But he replied, &#8220;The man who made me well said to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Pick up your mat and walk.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> &#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So they asked him, &#8220;Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Authority of the Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In his defense Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Doing Good to All</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GAL.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GAL.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Carry each other&#8217;s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GAL.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GAL.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GAL.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">for each one should carry their own load. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GAL.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GAL.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GAL.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GAL.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Not Circumcision but the New Creation</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GAL.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GAL.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GAL.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GAL.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">whom</span></span></span><span class="content"> the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GAL.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule&#8212;to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">rule and to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Israel of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GAL.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">From now on, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GAL.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.</span></span></div>
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