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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh&#8217;s court, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8216;My father made me swear an oath and said, &#8220;I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.&#8221; Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said, &#8220;Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh&#8217;s officials accompanied him&#8212;the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">besides all the members of Joseph&#8217;s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father&#8217;s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content"> also went up with him. It was a very large company.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, &#8220;The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.&#8221; That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:11 </span><span class="fq">Abel Mizraim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">mourning </span><span class="fqa">of the </span><span class="fq">Egyptians</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Jacob&#8217;s sons did as he had commanded them: </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph Reassures His Brothers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Joseph&#8217;s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, &#8220;What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So they sent word to Joseph, saying, &#8220;Your father left these instructions before he died: </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.&#8217; Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.&#8221; When their message came to him, Joseph wept.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. &#8220;We are your slaves,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But Joseph said to them, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So then, don&#8217;t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.&#8221; And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Joseph</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father&#8217;s family. He lived a hundred and ten years </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and saw the third generation of Ephraim&#8217;s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph&#8217;s knees.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, were counted as his</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.50.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.50.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.50.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, &#8220;God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.50.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.50.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 11</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> I take refuge.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">How then can you say to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Flee like a bird to your mountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For look, the wicked bend their bows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">they set their arrows against the strings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">to shoot from the shadows</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">at the upright in heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the foundations are being destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="content">what can the righteous do?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is in his holy temple;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is on his heavenly throne.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">He observes everyone on earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">his eyes examine them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> examines the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">but the wicked, those who love violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">he hates with a passion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On the wicked he will rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">fiery coals and burning sulfur;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">a scorching wind will be their lot.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="content">he loves justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="content">the upright will see his face.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Submission to Governing Authorities</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the one in authority is God&#8217;s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God&#8217;s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God&#8217;s servants, who give their full time to governing. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Love Fulfills the Law</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The commandments, &#8220;You shall not commit adultery,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not murder,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not steal,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not covet,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21</span></span></span><span class="content"> and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day Is Near</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:14 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.</span></span></span></span></div>
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