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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Simon&#8217;s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.1.31"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">eyes, Lord</span></span></span><span class="content"> do not pass your servant by. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way&#8212;now that you have come to your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;do as you say.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. &#8220;Quick,&#8221; he said, &#8220;get three seahs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;My lords,&#8221; he said, &#8220;please turn aside to your servant&#8217;s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="content">&#8220;No,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;we will spend the night in the square.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to him: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, &#8220;Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As she was going to get it, he called, &#8220;And bring me, please, a piece of bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God lives,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any bread&#8212;only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it&#8212;and die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Elijah said to her, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sends rain on the land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoken by Elijah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">She said to her husband, &#8220;I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Let&#8217;s make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He said to his servant Gehazi, &#8220;Call the Shunammite.&#8221; So he called her, and she stood before him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Elisha said to him, &#8220;Tell her, &#8216;You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.4.13"><span class="content">She replied, &#8220;I have a home among my own people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;What can be done for her?&#8221; Elisha asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.4.14"><span class="content">Gehazi said, &#8220;She has no son, and her husband is old.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Elisha said, &#8220;Call her.&#8221; So he called her, and she stood in the doorway. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;About this time next year,&#8221; Elisha said, &#8220;you will hold a son in your arms.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.4.16"><span class="content">&#8220;No, my lord!&#8221; she objected. &#8220;Please, man of God, don&#8217;t mislead your servant!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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