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         <div class="label">53</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 53</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 53:1-6 is numbered 53:2-7.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">mahalath.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The fool says in his heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">&#8220;There is no God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">there is no one who does good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God looks down from heaven</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">on all mankind</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">to see if there are any who understand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">any who seek God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="content">there is no one who does good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="content">not even one.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do all these evildoers know nothing?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="content">They devour my people as though eating bread;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="content">they never call on God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">where there was nothing to dread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">God scattered the bones of those who attacked you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">you put them to shame, for God despised them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.53.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.53.6"><span class="content">When God restores his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.53.6"><span class="content">let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">54</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 54</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 54:1-7 is numbered 54:3-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, &#8220;Is not David hiding among us?&#8221;</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Save me, O God, by your name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="content">vindicate me by your might.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear my prayer, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="content">listen to the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Arrogant foes are attacking me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">ruthless people are trying to kill me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">people without regard for God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">54:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Surely God is my help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="content">the Lord is the one who sustains me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let evil recoil on those who slander me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="content">in your faithfulness destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="content">I will praise your name, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for it is good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.54.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You have delivered me from all my troubles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.54.7"><span class="content">and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.4.21"><span class="label">21</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 v22" data-usfm="NUM.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take a census also of the Gershonites by their families and clans. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the service of the Gershonite clans in their carrying and their other work: </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, that is, the tent of meeting, its covering and its outer covering of durable leather, the curtains for the entrance to the tent of meeting, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">the curtains of the courtyard surrounding the tabernacle and altar, the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard, the ropes and all the equipment used in the service of the tent. The Gershonites are to do all that needs to be done with these things. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">All their service, whether carrying or doing other work, is to be done under the direction of Aaron and his sons. You shall assign to them as their responsibility all they are to carry. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting. Their duties are to be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Merarites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.4.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Count the Merarites by their clans and families. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">As part of all their service at the tent, they are to carry the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts and bases, </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, ropes, all their equipment and everything related to their use. Assign to each man the specific things he is to carry. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">This is the service of the Merarite clans as they work at the tent of meeting under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Numbering of the Levite Clans</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.4.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Moses, Aaron and the leaders of the community counted the Kohathites by their clans and families. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting, </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">counted by clans, were 2,750. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">This was the total of all those in the Kohathite clans who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command through Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.4.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.4.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">The Gershonites were counted by their clans and families. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.4.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting, </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.4.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">counted by their clans and families, were 2,630. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.4.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">This was the total of those in the Gershonite clans who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.4.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NUM.4.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The Merarites were counted by their clans and families. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NUM.4.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting, </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NUM.4.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">counted by their clans, were 3,200. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NUM.4.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">This was the total of those in the Merarite clans. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command through Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NUM.4.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="NUM.4.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">So Moses, Aaron and the leaders of Israel counted all the Levites by their clans and families. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="NUM.4.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to do the work of serving and carrying the tent of meeting </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="NUM.4.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">numbered 8,580. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="NUM.4.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">At the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command through Moses, each was assigned his work and told what to carry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="NUM.4.49"><span class="content">Thus they were counted, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch28" data-usfm="ACT.28.17+ACT.28.18+ACT.28.19+ACT.28.20+ACT.28.21+ACT.28.22+ACT.28.23+ACT.28.24+ACT.28.25+ACT.28.26+ACT.28.27+ACT.28.28+ACT.28.29+ACT.28.30+ACT.28.31">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Three days later he called together the local Jewish leaders. When they had assembled, Paul said to them: &#8220;My brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or against the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They examined me and wanted to release me, because I was not guilty of any crime deserving death. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The Jews objected, so I was compelled to make an appeal to Caesar. I certainly did not intend to bring any charge against my own people. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For this reason I have asked to see you and talk with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.28.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;We have not received any letters from Judea concerning you, and none of our people who have come from there has reported or said anything bad about you. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But we want to hear what your views are, for we know that people everywhere are talking against this sect.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.28.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They arranged to meet Paul on a certain day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying. He witnessed to them from morning till evening, explaining about the kingdom of God, and from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets he tried to persuade them about Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Some were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: &#8220;The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.28.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.28.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Go to this people and say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.28.26"><span class="content">&#8220;You will be ever hearing but never understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.28.26"><span class="content">you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.28.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For this people&#8217;s heart has become calloused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">they hardly hear with their ears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">and they have closed their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">Otherwise they might see with their eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">hear with their ears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">understand with their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">and turn, and I would heal them.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:27 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.28.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I want you to know that God&#8217;s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.28.29"><span class="label">[29]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:29 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here </span><span class="fqa">After he said this, the Jews left, arguing vigorously among themselves.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.28.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.28.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.28.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ&#8212;with all boldness and without hindrance!</span></span></div>
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