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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Covenant With Noah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever sheds human blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="content">by humans shall their blood be shed;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="content">for in the image of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="content">has God made mankind.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and with every living creature that was with you&#8212;the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you&#8212;every living creature on earth. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So God said to Noah, &#8220;This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sons of Noah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">soil, was the first</span></span></span><span class="content"> to plant a vineyard. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father&#8217;s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">he said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed be Canaan!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">The lowest of slaves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">will he be to his brothers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He also said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Shem!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="content">May Canaan be the slave of Shem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">May God extend Japheth&#8217;s</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:27 </span><span class="fq">Japheth </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">extend</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> territory;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="content">may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="content">and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After the flood Noah lived 350 years. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Table of Nations</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah&#8217;s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Japhethites</span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The sons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:2 </span><span class="fq">Sons </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fqa">descendants </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">successors </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">nations</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Japheth:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.10.2"><span class="content">Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The sons of Gomer:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.10.3"><span class="content">Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The sons of Javan:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.10.4"><span class="content">Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:4 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:7); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Dodanites</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Hamites</span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The sons of Ham:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.10.6"><span class="content">Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The sons of Cush:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="content">Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="content">The sons of Raamah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="content">Sheba and Dedan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Cush was the father</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:8 </span><span class="fq">Father </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fqa">ancestor </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">predecessor </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">founder; </span><span class="ft">also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He was a mighty hunter before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; that is why it is said, &#8220;Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Uruk and Akkad&#8212;all of them in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Shinar.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, Babylonia</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Nineveh with its city squares</span></span></span><span class="content"> Calah </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah&#8212;which is the great city.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Egypt was the father of</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.10.13"><span class="content">the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Canaan was the father of</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.10.15"><span class="content">Sidon his firstborn,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of the Sidonians, the foremost</span></span></span><span class="content"> and of the Hittites, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.10.18"><span class="content">Later the Canaanite clans scattered </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Semites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Shem, the older brother of</span></span></span><span class="content"> Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The sons of Shem:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.10.22"><span class="content">Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The sons of Aram:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.10.23"><span class="content">Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:23 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:17; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Mash.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.10.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Arphaxad was the father of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:24 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of</span></span></span><span class="content"> Shelah,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.10.24"><span class="content">and Shelah the father of Eber.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.10.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Two sons were born to Eber:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.10.25"><span class="content">One was named Peleg,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:25 </span><span class="fq">Peleg </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">division.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.10.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Joktan was the father of</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.10.26"><span class="content">Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Obal, Abimael, Sheba, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.10.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.10.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.10.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">These are the clans of Noah&#8217;s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Giving to the Needy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This, then, is how you should pray:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.6.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Our Father in heaven,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.6.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">hallowed be your name,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">your kingdom come,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.6.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">your will be done,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.6.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">on earth as it is in heaven.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Give us today our daily bread.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And forgive us our debts,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.6.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">as we also have forgiven our debtors.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And lead us not into temptation,</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">temptation </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">can also mean </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">testing.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.6.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but deliver us from the evil one.</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">from evil</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">; some late manuscripts </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">one, / for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Fasting</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Treasures in Heaven</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">6:22 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">healthy </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">here implies generous.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">your whole body will be full of light.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But if your eyes are unhealthy,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:23 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">unhealthy </span><span class="ft">here implies stingy.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Do Not Worry</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">single cubit to your height</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you&#8212;you of little faith?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So do not worry, saying, &#8216;What shall we eat?&#8217; or &#8216;What shall we drink?&#8217; or &#8216;What shall we wear?&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warnings Against Folly</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="content">if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">you have been trapped by what you said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="content">ensnared by the words of your mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So do this, my son, to free yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">since you have fallen into your neighbor&#8217;s hands:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">Go&#8212;to the point of exhaustion&#8212;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Go and humble yourself,</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">and give your neighbor no rest!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Allow no sleep to your eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="content">no slumber to your eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="content">like a bird from the snare of the fowler.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Go to the ant, you sluggard;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="content">consider its ways and be wise!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It has no commander,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="content">no overseer or ruler,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">yet it stores its provisions in summer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="content">and gathers its food at harvest.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How long will you lie there, you sluggard?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="content">When will you get up from your sleep?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">A little sleep, a little slumber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="content">a little folding of the hands to rest&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and poverty will come on you like a thief</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="content">and scarcity like an armed man.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A troublemaker and a villain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="content">who goes about with a corrupt mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">who winks maliciously with his eye,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="content">signals with his feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="content">and motions with his fingers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">who plots evil with deceit in his heart&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="content">he always stirs up conflict.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="content">he will suddenly be destroyed&#8212;without remedy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">There are six things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> hates,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="content">seven that are detestable to him:</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">haughty eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">a lying tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">hands that shed innocent blood,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">a heart that devises wicked schemes,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="content">feet that are quick to rush into evil,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">a false witness who pours out lies</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="content">and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Adultery</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My son, keep your father&#8217;s command</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="content">and do not forsake your mother&#8217;s teaching.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Bind them always on your heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="content">fasten them around your neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When you walk, they will guide you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">when you sleep, they will watch over you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">when you awake, they will speak to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For this command is a lamp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">this teaching is a light,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">and correction and instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">are the way to life,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">keeping you from your neighbor&#8217;s wife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="content">from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Do not lust in your heart after her beauty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="content">or let her captivate you with her eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="content">but another man&#8217;s wife preys on your very life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Can a man scoop fire into his lap</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="content">without his clothes being burned?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Can a man walk on hot coals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="content">without his feet being scorched?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So is he who sleeps with another man&#8217;s wife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="content">no one who touches her will go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">People do not despise a thief if he steals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="content">to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="content">though it costs him all the wealth of his house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But a man who commits adultery has no sense;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="content">whoever does so destroys himself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Blows and disgrace are his lot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="content">and his shame will never be wiped away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For jealousy arouses a husband&#8217;s fury,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="content">and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.6.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">He will not accept any compensation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.6.35"><span class="content">he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.</span></span></div>
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