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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LUK.23.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man, </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.23.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">45</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph Makes Himself Known</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.45.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, &#8220;Have everyone leave my presence!&#8221; So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.45.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh&#8217;s household heard about it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.45.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.45.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;I am Joseph! Is my father still living?&#8221; But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.45.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.45.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;Come close to me.&#8221; When they had done so, he said, &#8220;I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.45.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.45.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.45.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">45:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">save you as a great band of survivors</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.45.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.45.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.45.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now hurry back to my father and say to him, &#8216;This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don&#8217;t delay. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.45.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me&#8212;you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.45.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.45.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.45.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is really I who am speaking to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.45.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.45.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.45.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then he threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin embraced him, weeping. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.45.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.45.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.45.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When the news reached Pharaoh&#8217;s palace that Joseph&#8217;s brothers had come, Pharaoh and all his officials were pleased. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.45.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said to Joseph, &#8220;Tell your brothers, &#8216;Do this: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.45.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and bring your father and your families back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can enjoy the fat of the land.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.45.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.45.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are also directed to tell them, &#8216;Do this: Take some carts from Egypt for your children and your wives, and get your father and come. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.45.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Never mind about your belongings, because the best of all Egypt will be yours.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.45.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.45.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So the sons of Israel did this. Joseph gave them carts, as Pharaoh had commanded, and he also gave them provisions for their journey. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.45.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">To each of them he gave new clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">45:22 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 1/2 pounds or about 3.5 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and five sets of clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.45.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And this is what he sent to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other provisions for his journey. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.45.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, &#8220;Don&#8217;t quarrel on the way!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.45.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.45.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So they went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.45.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They told him, &#8220;Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt.&#8221; Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.45.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.45.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And Israel said, &#8220;I&#8217;m convinced! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">46</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Goes to Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.46.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.46.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.46.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, &#8220;Jacob! Jacob!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.46.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.46.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.46.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am God, the God of your father,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.46.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph&#8217;s own hand will close your eyes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.46.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.46.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel&#8217;s sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.46.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.46.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters&#8212;all his offspring.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.46.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.46.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">These are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.46.8"><span class="content">Reuben the firstborn of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.46.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.46.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The sons of Reuben:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.46.9"><span class="content">Hanok, Pallu, Hezron and Karmi.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.46.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.46.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The sons of Simeon:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.46.10"><span class="content">Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.46.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.46.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The sons of Levi:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.46.11"><span class="content">Gershon, Kohath and Merari.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.46.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The sons of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"><span class="content">Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan).</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"><span class="content">The sons of Perez:</span></span></div><div class="li3"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"><span class="content">Hezron and Hamul.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.46.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.46.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sons of Issachar:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.46.13"><span class="content">Tola, Puah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:13 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch and Syriac (see also 1 Chron. 7:1); Masoretic Text Puvah</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jashub</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:13 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also Num. 26:24 and 1 Chron. 7:1); Masoretic Text Iob</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Shimron.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.46.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.46.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The sons of Zebulun:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.46.14"><span class="content">Sered, Elon and Jahleel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.46.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.46.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These were the sons Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> besides his daughter Dinah. These sons and daughters of his were thirty-three in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.46.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.46.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The sons of Gad:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.46.16"><span class="content">Zephon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:16 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint (see also Num. 26:15); Masoretic Text Ziphion</span></span></span><span class="content"> Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.46.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The sons of Asher:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="content">Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah.</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="content">Their sister was Serah.</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="content">The sons of Beriah:</span></span></div><div class="li3"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="content">Heber and Malkiel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.46.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.46.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah&#8212;sixteen in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.46.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.46.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The sons of Jacob&#8217;s wife Rachel:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.46.19"><span class="content">Joseph and Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.46.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:20 </span><span class="ft">That is, Heliopolis</span></span></span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.46.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.46.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The sons of Benjamin:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.46.21"><span class="content">Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.46.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.46.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob&#8212;fourteen in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.46.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.46.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The son of Dan:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.46.23"><span class="content">Hushim.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.46.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.46.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The sons of Naphtali:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.46.24"><span class="content">Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.46.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.46.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">These were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel&#8212;seven in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.46.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.46.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">All those who went to Egypt with Jacob&#8212;those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons&#8217; wives&#8212;numbered sixty-six persons. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.46.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">With the two sons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:27 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">the nine children</span></span></span><span class="content"> who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob&#8217;s family, which went to Egypt, were seventy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:27 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew (see also Exodus 1:5 and note); Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14) </span><span class="fqa">seventy-five</span></span></span><span class="content"> in all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.46.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.46.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When they arrived in the region of Goshen, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.46.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:29 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">around him</span></span></span><span class="content"> and wept for a long time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.46.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.46.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;Now I am ready to die, since I have seen for myself that you are still alive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.46.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.46.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father&#8217;s household, &#8220;I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, &#8216;My brothers and my father&#8217;s household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.46.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.46.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When Pharaoh calls you in and asks, &#8216;What is your occupation?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.46.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">you should answer, &#8216;Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.&#8217; Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moral Benefits of Wisdom</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if you accept my words</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">and store up my commands within you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">turning your ear to wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">and applying your heart to understanding&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">indeed, if you call out for insight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">and cry aloud for understanding,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and if you look for it as for silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">and search for it as for hidden treasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">then you will understand the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">and find the knowledge of God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He holds success in store for the upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">for he guards the course of the just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">and protects the way of his faithful ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then you will understand what is right and just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">and fair&#8212;every good path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For wisdom will enter your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Discretion will protect you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">and understanding will guard you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">from men whose words are perverse,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">who have left the straight paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">to walk in dark ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">who delight in doing wrong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">whose paths are crooked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">and who are devious in their ways.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">from the wayward woman with her seductive words,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">who has left the partner of her youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">and ignored the covenant she made before God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">covenant of her God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Surely her house leads down to death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">and her paths to the spirits of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">None who go to her return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">or attain the paths of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Thus you will walk in the ways of the good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">and keep to the paths of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the upright will live in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">and the blameless will remain in it;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">but the wicked will be cut off from the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="content">and the unfaithful will be torn from it.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And they began to accuse him, saying, &#8220;We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Pilate asked Jesus, &#8220;Are you the king of the Jews?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.23.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have said so,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, &#8220;I find no basis for a charge against this man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But they insisted, &#8220;He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he learned that Jesus was under Herod&#8217;s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see him. From what he had heard about him, he hoped to see him perform a sign of some sort. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He plied him with many questions, but Jesus gave him no answer. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The chief priests and the teachers of the law were standing there, vehemently accusing him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">That day Herod and Pilate became friends&#8212;before this they had been enemies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and said to them, &#8220;You brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence and have found no basis for your charges against him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us; as you can see, he has done nothing to deserve death. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore, I will punish him and then release him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.23.17"><span class="label">[17]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:17 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 27:15 and Mark 15:6.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But the whole crowd shouted, &#8220;Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">(Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But they kept shouting, &#8220;Crucify him! Crucify him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For the third time he spoke to them: &#8220;Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So Pilate decided to grant their demand. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Crucifixion of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Jesus turned and said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the time will come when you will say, &#8216;Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;they will say to the mountains, &#8220;Fall on us!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and to the hills, &#8220;Cover us!&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">23:30 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Hosea 10:8
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.23.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals&#8212;one on his right, the other on his left. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:34 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts do not have this sentence.</span></span></span><span class="content"> And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.23.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, &#8220;He saved others; let him save himself if he is God&#8217;s Messiah, the Chosen One.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.23.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.23.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.23.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.23.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.23.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">There was a written notice above him, which read: </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">this is the king of the jews</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.23.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.23.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.23.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.23.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">But the other criminal rebuked him. &#8220;Don&#8217;t you fear God,&#8221; he said, &#8220;since you are under the same sentence? </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.23.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.23.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.23.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:42 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">come with your kingly power</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.23.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.23.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Jesus answered him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.23.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.23.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.23.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.23.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Jesus called out with a loud voice, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:46 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 31:5</span></span></span><span class="content"> When he had said this, he breathed his last.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.23.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.23.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, &#8220;Surely this was a righteous man.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.23.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">When all the people who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.23.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">But all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Burial of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.23.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LUK.23.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man, </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.23.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LUK.23.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus&#8217; body. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LUK.23.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LUK.23.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LUK.23.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LUK.23.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LUK.23.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.</span></span></div>
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