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 <div class="label">22</div><div class="p"> 1The Lord said to Moses, 2&#8220;Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings the Israelites consecrate to me, so they will not profane my holy name. I am the Lord.</div><div class="p"> 3&#8220;Say to them: &#8216;For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the Lord, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the Lord.</div><div class="p"> 4&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a descendant of Aaron has a defiling skin disease#22:4 The Hebrew word for defiling skin disease, traditionally translated &#8220;leprosy,&#8221; was used for various diseases affecting the skin. or a bodily discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is cleansed. He will also be unclean if he touches something defiled by a corpse or by anyone who has an emission of semen, 5or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be. 6The one who touches any such thing will be unclean till evening. He must not eat any of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water. 7When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that he may eat the sacred offerings, for they are his food. 8He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the Lord.</div><div class="p"> 9&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The priests are to perform my service in such a way that they do not become guilty and die for treating it with contempt. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.</div><div class="p"> 10&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;No one outside a priest&#8217;s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it. 11But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food. 12If a priest&#8217;s daughter marries anyone other than a priest, she may not eat any of the sacred contributions. 13But if a priest&#8217;s daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father&#8217;s household as in her youth, she may eat her father&#8217;s food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.</div><div class="p"> 14&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Anyone who eats a sacred offering by mistake must make restitution to the priest for the offering and add a fifth of the value to it. 15The priests must not desecrate the sacred offerings the Israelites present to the Lord 16by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the Lord, who makes them holy.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="s1">Unacceptable Sacrifices</div><div class="p"> 17The Lord said to Moses, 18&#8220;Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;If any of you&#8212;whether an Israelite or a foreigner residing in Israel&#8212;presents a gift for a burnt offering to the Lord, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, 19you must present a male without defect from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf. 20Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf. 21When anyone brings from the herd or flock a fellowship offering to the Lord to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without defect or blemish to be acceptable. 22Do not offer to the Lord the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as a food offering presented to the Lord. 23You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox#22:23 The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female. or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow. 24You must not offer to the Lord an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land, 25and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 26The Lord said to Moses, 27&#8220;When a calf, a lamb or a goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the Lord. 28Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.</div><div class="p"> 29&#8220;When you sacrifice a thank offering to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. 30It must be eaten that same day; leave none of it till morning. I am the Lord.</div><div class="p"> 31&#8220;Keep my commands and follow them. I am the Lord. 32Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the Lord, who made you holy 33and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1">The Appointed Festivals</div><div class="p"> 1The Lord said to Moses, 2&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.</div><div class="s2">The Sabbath</div><div class="p"> 3&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.</div><div class="s2">The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread</div><div class="p"> 4&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;These are the Lord&#8217;s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: 5The Lord&#8217;s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. 6On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord&#8217;s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. 8For seven days present a food offering to the Lord. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="s2">Offering the Firstfruits</div><div class="p"> 9The Lord said to Moses, 10&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. 11He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. 12On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect, 13together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah#23:13 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms; also in verse 17 of the finest flour mixed with olive oil&#8212;a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma&#8212;and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin#23:13 That is, about 1 quart or about 1 liter of wine. 14You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.</div><div class="s2">The Festival of Weeks</div><div class="p"> 15&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 16Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. 17From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the Lord. 18Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings&#8212;a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord. 19Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering#23:19 Or purification offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. 20The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the Lord for the priest. 21On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.</div><div class="p"> 22&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="s2">The Festival of Trumpets</div><div class="p"> 23The Lord said to Moses, 24&#8220;Say to the Israelites: &#8216;On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. 25Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the Lord.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="s2">The Day of Atonement</div><div class="p"> 26The Lord said to Moses, 27&#8220;The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves,#23:27 Or and fast; similarly in verses 29 and 32 and present a food offering to the Lord. 28Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God. 29Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people. 30I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day. 31You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. 32It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.&#8221;</div><div class="s2">The Festival of Tabernacles</div><div class="p"> 33The Lord said to Moses, 34&#8220;Say to the Israelites: &#8216;On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord&#8217;s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. 35The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. 36For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the Lord. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.</div><div class="p"> 37(&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;These are the Lord&#8217;s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the Lord&#8212;the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day. 38These offerings are in addition to those for the Lord&#8217;s Sabbaths and#23:38 Or These festivals are in addition to the Lord&#8217;s Sabbaths, and these offerings are in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the Lord.)</div><div class="p"> 39&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the Lord for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. 40On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees&#8212;from palms, willows and other leafy trees&#8212;and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. 41Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. 42Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters 43so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 44So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the Lord.</div>
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 <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1">Olive Oil and Bread Set Before the Lord</div><div class="p"> 1The Lord said to Moses, 2&#8220;Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. 3Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 4The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord must be tended continually.</div><div class="p"> 5&#8220;Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two-tenths of an ephah#24:5 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms for each loaf. 6Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the Lord. 7By each stack put some pure incense as a memorial#24:7 Or representative portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord. 8This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. 9It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.&#8221;</div><div class="s1">A Blasphemer Put to Death</div><div class="p"> 10Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite. 11The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses. (His mother&#8217;s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri the Danite.) 12They put him in custody until the will of the Lord should be made clear to them.</div><div class="p"> 13Then the Lord said to Moses: 14&#8220;Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him. 15Say to the Israelites: &#8216;Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible; 16anyone who blasphemes the name of the Lord is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.</div><div class="p"> 17&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death. 18Anyone who takes the life of someone&#8217;s animal must make restitution&#8212;life for life. 19Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. 21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death. 22You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses.</div>
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 <div class="label">53</div><div class="cl">Psalm 53#In Hebrew texts 53:1-6 is numbered 53:2-7.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. According to mahalath.#Title: Probably a musical term A maskil#Title: Probably a literary or musical term of David.</div><div class="q1"> 1The fool says in his heart,</div><div class="q2">&#8220;There is no God.&#8221;</div><div class="q1">They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;</div><div class="q2">there is no one who does good.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 2God looks down from heaven</div><div class="q2">on all mankind</div><div class="q1">to see if there are any who understand,</div><div class="q2">any who seek God.</div><div class="q1"> 3Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt;</div><div class="q2">there is no one who does good,</div><div class="q2">not even one.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4Do all these evildoers know nothing?</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">They devour my people as though eating bread;</div><div class="q2">they never call on God.</div><div class="q1"> 5But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,</div><div class="q2">where there was nothing to dread.</div><div class="q1">God scattered the bones of those who attacked you;</div><div class="q2">you put them to shame, for God despised them.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!</div><div class="q2">When God restores his people,</div><div class="q2">let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!</div>
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 <div class="label">30</div><div class="ms1">Sayings of Agur</div><div class="p"> 1The sayings of Agur son of Jakeh&#8212;an inspired utterance.</div><div class="q1">This man&#8217;s utterance to Ithiel:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">&#8220;I am weary, God,</div><div class="q2">but I can prevail.#30:1 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text utterance to Ithiel, / to Ithiel and Ukal:</div><div class="q1"> 2Surely I am only a brute, not a man;</div><div class="q2">I do not have human understanding.</div><div class="q1"> 3I have not learned wisdom,</div><div class="q2">nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.</div><div class="q1"> 4Who has gone up to heaven and come down?</div><div class="q2">Whose hands have gathered up the wind?</div><div class="q1">Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak?</div><div class="q2">Who has established all the ends of the earth?</div><div class="q1">What is his name, and what is the name of his son?</div><div class="q2">Surely you know!</div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 5&#8220;Every word of God is flawless;</div><div class="q2">he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.</div><div class="q1"> 6Do not add to his words,</div><div class="q2">or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7&#8220;Two things I ask of you, Lord;</div><div class="q2">do not refuse me before I die:</div><div class="q1"> 8Keep falsehood and lies far from me;</div><div class="q2">give me neither poverty nor riches,</div><div class="q2">but give me only my daily bread.</div><div class="q1"> 9Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you</div><div class="q2">and say, &#8216;Who is the Lord?&#8217;</div><div class="q1">Or I may become poor and steal,</div><div class="q2">and so dishonor the name of my God.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10&#8220;Do not slander a servant to their master,</div><div class="q2">or they will curse you, and you will pay for it.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 11&#8220;There are those who curse their fathers</div><div class="q2">and do not bless their mothers;</div><div class="q1"> 12those who are pure in their own eyes</div><div class="q2">and yet are not cleansed of their filth;</div><div class="q1"> 13those whose eyes are ever so haughty,</div><div class="q2">whose glances are so disdainful;</div><div class="q1"> 14those whose teeth are swords</div><div class="q2">and whose jaws are set with knives</div><div class="q1">to devour the poor from the earth</div><div class="q2">and the needy from among mankind.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 15&#8220;The leech has two daughters.</div><div class="q2">&#8216;Give! Give!&#8217; they cry.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">&#8220;There are three things that are never satisfied,</div><div class="q2">four that never say, &#8216;Enough!&#8217;:</div><div class="q1"> 16the grave, the barren womb,</div><div class="q2">land, which is never satisfied with water,</div><div class="q2">and fire, which never says, &#8216;Enough!&#8217;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 17&#8220;The eye that mocks a father,</div><div class="q2">that scorns an aged mother,</div><div class="q1">will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley,</div><div class="q2">will be eaten by the vultures.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 18&#8220;There are three things that are too amazing for me,</div><div class="q2">four that I do not understand:</div><div class="q1"> 19the way of an eagle in the sky,</div><div class="q2">the way of a snake on a rock,</div><div class="q1">the way of a ship on the high seas,</div><div class="q2">and the way of a man with a young woman.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 20&#8220;This is the way of an adulterous woman:</div><div class="q2">She eats and wipes her mouth</div><div class="q2">and says, &#8216;I&#8217;ve done nothing wrong.&#8217;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 21&#8220;Under three things the earth trembles,</div><div class="q2">under four it cannot bear up:</div><div class="q1"> 22a servant who becomes king,</div><div class="q2">a godless fool who gets plenty to eat,</div><div class="q1"> 23a contemptible woman who gets married,</div><div class="q2">and a servant who displaces her mistress.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 24&#8220;Four things on earth are small,</div><div class="q2">yet they are extremely wise:</div><div class="q1"> 25Ants are creatures of little strength,</div><div class="q2">yet they store up their food in the summer;</div><div class="q1"> 26hyraxes are creatures of little power,</div><div class="q2">yet they make their home in the crags;</div><div class="q1"> 27locusts have no king,</div><div class="q2">yet they advance together in ranks;</div><div class="q1"> 28a lizard can be caught with the hand,</div><div class="q2">yet it is found in kings&#8217; palaces.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 29&#8220;There are three things that are stately in their stride,</div><div class="q2">four that move with stately bearing:</div><div class="q1"> 30a lion, mighty among beasts,</div><div class="q2">who retreats before nothing;</div><div class="q1"> 31a strutting rooster, a he-goat,</div><div class="q2">and a king secure against revolt.#30:31 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 32&#8220;If you play the fool and exalt yourself,</div><div class="q2">or if you plan evil,</div><div class="q2">clap your hand over your mouth!</div><div class="q1"> 33For as churning cream produces butter,</div><div class="q2">and as twisting the nose produces blood,</div><div class="q2">so stirring up anger produces strife.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">31</div><div class="ms1">Sayings of King Lemuel</div><div class="p"> 1The sayings of King Lemuel&#8212;an inspired utterance his mother taught him.</div><div class="q1"> 2Listen, my son! Listen, son of my womb!</div><div class="q2">Listen, my son, the answer to my prayers!</div><div class="q1"> 3Do not spend your strength#31:3 Or wealth on women,</div><div class="q2">your vigor on those who ruin kings.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4It is not for kings, Lemuel&#8212;</div><div class="q2">it is not for kings to drink wine,</div><div class="q2">not for rulers to crave beer,</div><div class="q1"> 5lest they drink and forget what has been decreed,</div><div class="q2">and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.</div><div class="q1"> 6Let beer be for those who are perishing,</div><div class="q2">wine for those who are in anguish!</div><div class="q1"> 7Let them drink and forget their poverty</div><div class="q2">and remember their misery no more.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 8Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,</div><div class="q2">for the rights of all who are destitute.</div><div class="q1"> 9Speak up and judge fairly;</div><div class="q2">defend the rights of the poor and needy.</div><div class="ms1">Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character</div><div class="q1"> 10 # 31:10 Verses 10-31 are an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. A wife of noble character who can find?</div><div class="q2">She is worth far more than rubies.</div><div class="q1"> 11Her husband has full confidence in her</div><div class="q2">and lacks nothing of value.</div><div class="q1"> 12She brings him good, not harm,</div><div class="q2">all the days of her life.</div><div class="q1"> 13She selects wool and flax</div><div class="q2">and works with eager hands.</div><div class="q1"> 14She is like the merchant ships,</div><div class="q2">bringing her food from afar.</div><div class="q1"> 15She gets up while it is still night;</div><div class="q2">she provides food for her family</div><div class="q2">and portions for her female servants.</div><div class="q1"> 16She considers a field and buys it;</div><div class="q2">out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.</div><div class="q1"> 17She sets about her work vigorously;</div><div class="q2">her arms are strong for her tasks.</div><div class="q1"> 18She sees that her trading is profitable,</div><div class="q2">and her lamp does not go out at night.</div><div class="q1"> 19In her hand she holds the distaff</div><div class="q2">and grasps the spindle with her fingers.</div><div class="q1"> 20She opens her arms to the poor</div><div class="q2">and extends her hands to the needy.</div><div class="q1"> 21When it snows, she has no fear for her household;</div><div class="q2">for all of them are clothed in scarlet.</div><div class="q1"> 22She makes coverings for her bed;</div><div class="q2">she is clothed in fine linen and purple.</div><div class="q1"> 23Her husband is respected at the city gate,</div><div class="q2">where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.</div><div class="q1"> 24She makes linen garments and sells them,</div><div class="q2">and supplies the merchants with sashes.</div><div class="q1"> 25She is clothed with strength and dignity;</div><div class="q2">she can laugh at the days to come.</div><div class="q1"> 26She speaks with wisdom,</div><div class="q2">and faithful instruction is on her tongue.</div><div class="q1"> 27She watches over the affairs of her household</div><div class="q2">and does not eat the bread of idleness.</div><div class="q1"> 28Her children arise and call her blessed;</div><div class="q2">her husband also, and he praises her:</div><div class="q1"> 29&#8220;Many women do noble things,</div><div class="q2">but you surpass them all.&#8221;</div><div class="q1"> 30Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;</div><div class="q2">but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.</div><div class="q1"> 31Honor her for all that her hands have done,</div><div class="q2">and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.</div>
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So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.</div><div class="p"> 5Then he asked them, &#8220;If one of you has a child#14:5 Some manuscripts donkey or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?&#8221; 6And they had nothing to say.</div><div class="p"> 7When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: 8&#8220;When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. 9If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, &#8216;Give this person your seat.&#8217; Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. 10But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, &#8216;Friend, move up to a better place.&#8217; Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests. 11For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 12Then Jesus said to his host, &#8220;When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. 13But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.&#8221;</div><div class="s1">The Parable of the Great Banquet</div><div class="p"> 15When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, &#8220;Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 16Jesus replied: &#8220;A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. 17At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, &#8216;Come, for everything is now ready.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 18 &#8220;But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, &#8216;I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 19 &#8220;Another said, &#8216;I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I&#8217;m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 20 &#8220;Still another said, &#8216;I just got married, so I can&#8217;t come.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 21 &#8220;The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, &#8216;Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 22 &#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Sir,&#8217; the servant said, &#8216;what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 23 &#8220;Then the master told his servant, &#8216;Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. 24I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="s1">The Cost of Being a Disciple</div><div class="p"> 25Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26&#8220;If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters&#8212;yes, even their own life&#8212;such a person cannot be my disciple. 27And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.</div><div class="p"> 28 &#8220;Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won&#8217;t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? 29For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, 30saying, &#8216;This person began to build and wasn&#8217;t able to finish.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 31 &#8220;Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won&#8217;t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. 33In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.</div><div class="p"> 34 &#8220;Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? 35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out.</div><div class="p"> &#8220;Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="p">24Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. 25He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor#18:25 Or with fervor in the Spirit and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. 26He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.</div><div class="p"> 27When Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, the brothers and sisters encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. When he arrived, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed. 28For he vigorously refuted his Jewish opponents in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah.</div>
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