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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Vengeance on the Midianites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Moses said to the people, &#8220;Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s vengeance on them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.31.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They fought against Midian, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses, and killed every man. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba&#8212;the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.31.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Moses was angry with the officers of the army&#8212;the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds&#8212;who returned from the battle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.31.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you allowed all the women to live?&#8221; he asked them. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;They were the ones who followed Balaam&#8217;s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s people. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who has killed someone or touched someone who was killed must stay outside the camp seven days. On the third and seventh days you must purify yourselves and your captives. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Purify every garment as well as everything made of leather, goat hair or wood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.31.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, &#8220;This is what is required by the law that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Moses: </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, lead </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">On the seventh day wash your clothes and you will be clean. Then you may come into the camp.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dividing the Spoils</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the community are to count all the people and animals that were captured. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Divide the spoils equally between the soldiers who took part in the battle and the rest of the community. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">From the soldiers who fought in the battle, set apart as tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> one out of every five hundred, whether people, cattle, donkeys or sheep. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Take this tribute from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s part. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">From the Israelites&#8217; half, select one out of every fifty, whether people, cattle, donkeys, sheep or other animals. Give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s tabernacle.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.31.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">72,000 cattle, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">61,000 donkeys </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.31.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The half share of those who fought in the battle was:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.31.36"><span class="content">337,500 sheep, </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">of which the tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was 675;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.31.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">36,000 cattle, of which the tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was 72;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.31.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">30,500 donkeys, of which the tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was 61;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.31.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">16,000 people, of whom the tribute for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was 32.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.31.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.31.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s part, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.31.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NUM.31.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The half belonging to the Israelites, which Moses set apart from that of the fighting men&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NUM.31.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">the community&#8217;s half&#8212;was 337,500 sheep, </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NUM.31.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">36,000 cattle, </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NUM.31.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">30,500 donkeys </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="NUM.31.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">and 16,000 people. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="NUM.31.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">From the Israelites&#8217; half, Moses selected one out of every fifty people and animals, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded him, and gave them to the Levites, who were responsible for the care of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s tabernacle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="NUM.31.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="NUM.31.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Then the officers who were over the units of the army&#8212;the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds&#8212;went to Moses </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="NUM.31.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">and said to him, &#8220;Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="NUM.31.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">So we have brought as an offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> the gold articles each of us acquired&#8212;armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces&#8212;to make atonement for ourselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="NUM.31.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="NUM.31.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted from them the gold&#8212;all the crafted articles. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="NUM.31.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">All the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds that Moses and Eleazar presented as a gift to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> weighed 16,750 shekels.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:52 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 420 pounds or about 190 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="NUM.31.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">Each soldier had taken plunder for himself. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="NUM.31.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">32</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Transjordan Tribes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, and said, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> subdued before the people of Israel&#8212;are suitable for livestock, and your servants have livestock. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If we have found favor in your eyes,&#8221; they said, &#8220;let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, &#8220;Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here? </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Why do you discourage the Israelites from crossing over into the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given them? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After they went up to the Valley of Eshkol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had given them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath: </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8216;Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> wholeheartedly.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> even more angry with Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they came up to him and said, &#8220;We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But we will arm ourselves for battle</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:17 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">will be quick to arm ourselves</span></span></span><span class="content"> and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has received their inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.32.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Moses said to them, &#8220;If you will do this&#8212;if you will arm yourselves before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for battle </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.32.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and if all of you who are armed cross over the Jordan before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> until he has driven his enemies out before him&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">then when the land is subdued before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you may return and be free from your obligation to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.32.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.32.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.32.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Build cities for your women and children, and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.32.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.32.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, &#8220;We your servants will do as our lord commands. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.32.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.32.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But your servants, every man who is armed for battle, will cross over to fight before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as our lord says.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.32.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.32.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and to the family heads of the Israelite tribes. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.32.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, then when the land is subdued before you, you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.32.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must accept their possession with you in Canaan.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.32.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.32.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The Gadites and Reubenites answered, &#8220;Your servants will do what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.32.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">We will cross over before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> into Canaan armed, but the property we inherit will be on this side of the Jordan.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.32.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.32.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Then Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan&#8212;the whole land with its cities and the territory around them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.32.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.32.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.32.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Atroth Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.32.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran as fortified cities, and built pens for their flocks. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.32.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And the Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh and Kiriathaim, </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.32.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">as well as Nebo and Baal Meon (these names were changed) and Sibmah. They gave names to the cities they rebuilt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.32.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.32.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">The descendants of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it and drove out the Amorites who were there. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.32.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">So Moses gave Gilead to the Makirites, the descendants of Manasseh, and they settled there. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.32.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, captured their settlements and called them Havvoth Jair.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:41 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them the settlements of Jair</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NUM.32.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">And Nobah captured Kenath and its surrounding settlements and called it Nobah after himself.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">33</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Stages in Israel&#8217;s Journey</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">At the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command Moses recorded the stages in their journey. This is their journey by stages:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.33.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Israelites set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who were burying all their firstborn, whom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had struck down among them; for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had brought judgment on their gods.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.33.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Israelites left Rameses and camped at Sukkoth.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.33.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They left Sukkoth and camped at Etham, on the edge of the desert.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.33.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They left Etham, turned back to Pi Hahiroth, to the east of Baal Zephon, and camped near Migdol.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.33.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They left Pi Hahiroth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:8 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">left from before Hahiroth</span></span></span><span class="content"> and passed through the sea into the desert, and when they had traveled for three days in the Desert of Etham, they camped at Marah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.33.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They left Marah and went to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They left Elim and camped by the Red Sea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 11</span></span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.33.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They left the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They left the Desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.33.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.33.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They left Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.33.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They left Rephidim and camped in the Desert of Sinai.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.33.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They left the Desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.33.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They left Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.33.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.33.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They left Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.33.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They left Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.33.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.33.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They left Libnah and camped at Rissah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.33.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.33.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They left Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.33.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.33.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.33.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.33.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">They left Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.33.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.33.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They left Haradah and camped at Makheloth.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.33.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.33.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They left Makheloth and camped at Tahath.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.33.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.33.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">They left Tahath and camped at Terah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.33.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.33.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They left Terah and camped at Mithkah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.33.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.33.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They left Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.33.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.33.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">They left Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.33.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.33.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They left Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.33.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.33.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They left Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.33.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.33.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">They left Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.33.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.33.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">They left Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.33.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.33.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They left Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.33.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.33.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">They left Ezion Geber and camped at Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.33.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="NUM.33.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">They left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the border of Edom. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.33.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">At the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor, where he died on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.33.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.33.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.33.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.33.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.33.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">They left Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.33.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NUM.33.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">They left Zalmonah and camped at Punon.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NUM.33.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NUM.33.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">They left Punon and camped at Oboth.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NUM.33.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NUM.33.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">They left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NUM.33.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NUM.33.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">They left Iye Abarim and camped at Dibon Gad.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NUM.33.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="NUM.33.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">They left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="NUM.33.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="NUM.33.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">They left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, near Nebo.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="NUM.33.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="NUM.33.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="NUM.33.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">There on the plains of Moab they camped along the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="NUM.33.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="NUM.33.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="NUM.33.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="NUM.33.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="NUM.33.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="NUM.33.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="NUM.33.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="NUM.33.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="NUM.33.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">34</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Boundaries of Canaan</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.34.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.34.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Command the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.34.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.34.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your southern side will include some of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. Your southern boundary will start in the east from the southern end of the Dead Sea, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.34.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.34.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.34.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;For your northern boundary, run a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.34.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.34.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary on the north.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.34.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.34.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.34.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Kinnereth</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.34.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.34.12"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.34.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.34.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Moses commanded the Israelites: &#8220;Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has ordered that it be given to the nine-and-a-half tribes, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.34.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">because the families of the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.34.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These two-and-a-half tribes have received their inheritance east of the Jordan across from Jericho, toward the sunrise.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.34.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.34.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.34.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;These are the names of the men who are to assign the land for you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.34.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And appoint one leader from each tribe to help assign the land. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.34.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These are their names:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.34.19"><span class="content">Caleb son of Jephunneh,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.34.19"><span class="content">from the tribe of Judah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.34.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.34.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Shemuel son of Ammihud,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.34.20"><span class="content">from the tribe of Simeon;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.34.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.34.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Elidad son of Kislon,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.34.21"><span class="content">from the tribe of Benjamin;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.34.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.34.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Bukki son of Jogli,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.34.22"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Dan;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.34.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.34.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Hanniel son of Ephod,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.34.23"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.34.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.34.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Kemuel son of Shiphtan,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.34.24"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Ephraim son of Joseph;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.34.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.34.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Elizaphan son of Parnak,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.34.25"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Zebulun;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.34.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.34.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Paltiel son of Azzan,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.34.26"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Issachar;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.34.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.34.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Ahihud son of Shelomi,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.34.27"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Asher;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.34.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.34.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Pedahel son of Ammihud,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.34.28"><span class="content">the leader from the tribe of Naphtali.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.34.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.34.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">These are the men the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded to assign the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">35</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Towns for the Levites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.35.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.35.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Command the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. And give them pasturelands around the towns. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.35.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then they will have towns to live in and pasturelands for the cattle they own and all their other animals.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.35.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.35.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;The pasturelands around the towns that you give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1,500 feet or about 450 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the town wall. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.35.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Outside the town, measure two thousand cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3,000 feet or about 900 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the east side, two thousand on the south side, two thousand on the west and two thousand on the north, with the town in the center. They will have this area as pastureland for the towns.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cities of Refuge</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.35.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.35.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.35.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In all you must give the Levites forty-eight towns, together with their pasturelands. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.35.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The towns you give the Levites from the land the Israelites possess are to be given in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: Take many towns from a tribe that has many, but few from one that has few.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.35.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.35.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses: </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.35.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and say to them: &#8216;When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.35.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.35.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.35.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">These six towns you give will be your cities of refuge. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.35.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.35.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners residing among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.35.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.35.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.35.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Or if anyone is holding a stone and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.35.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Or if anyone is holding a wooden object and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.35.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.35.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at them intentionally so that they die </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.35.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.35.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.35.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But if without enmity someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.35.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them, and they die, then since that other person was not an enemy and no harm was intended, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.35.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the assembly must judge between the accused and the avenger of blood according to these regulations. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.35.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.35.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.35.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.35.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.35.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.35.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.35.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is to have the force of law for you throughout the generations to come, wherever you live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.35.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.35.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.35.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.35.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.35.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.35.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow them to go back and live on their own land before the death of the high priest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.35.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.35.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.35.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, dwell among the Israelites.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">36</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Inheritance of Zelophehad&#8217;s Daughters</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.36.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, who were from the clans of the descendants of Joseph, came and spoke before Moses and the leaders, the heads of the Israelite families. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They said, &#8220;When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.36.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then at the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command Moses gave this order to the Israelites: &#8220;What the tribe of the descendants of Joseph is saying is right. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commands for Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters: They may marry anyone they please as long as they marry within their father&#8217;s tribal clan. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Every daughter who inherits land in any Israelite tribe must marry someone in her father&#8217;s tribal clan, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.36.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters&#8212;Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milkah and Noah&#8212;married their cousins on their father&#8217;s side. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in their father&#8217;s tribe and clan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.36.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.36.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">These are the commands and regulations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">139</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 139</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You have searched me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="content">and you know me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You know when I sit and when I rise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">you perceive my thoughts from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You discern my going out and my lying down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">you are familiar with all my ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before a word is on my tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, know it completely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You hem me in behind and before,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">and you lay your hand upon me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">too lofty for me to attain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Where can I go from your Spirit?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">Where can I flee from your presence?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If I go up to the heavens, you are there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If I rise on the wings of the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">if I settle on the far side of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">even there your hand will guide me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">your right hand will hold me fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If I say, &#8220;Surely the darkness will hide me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">and the light become night around me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">even the darkness will not be dark to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">the night will shine like the day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">for darkness is as light to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For you created my inmost being;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">you knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">your works are wonderful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">I know that full well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My frame was not hidden from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was made in the secret place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your eyes saw my unformed body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">all the days ordained for me were written in your book</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">before one of them came to be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How precious to me are your thoughts,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">139:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">How amazing are your thoughts concerning me</span></span></span><span class="content"> God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">How vast is the sum of them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Were I to count them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">they would outnumber the grains of sand&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">when I awake, I am still with you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only you, God, would slay the wicked!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They speak of you with evil intent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">your adversaries misuse your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do I not hate those who hate you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I have nothing but hatred for them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">I count them my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Search me, God, and know my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">test me and know my anxious thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">See if there is any offensive way in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="content">and lead me in the way everlasting.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">140</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 140</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 140:1-13 is numbered 140:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.140.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Rescue me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, from evildoers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.140.1"><span class="content">protect me from the violent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.140.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.140.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">who devise evil plans in their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.140.2"><span class="content">and stir up war every day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.140.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent&#8217;s;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"><span class="content">the poison of vipers is on their lips.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">140:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 8.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Keep me safe, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, from the hands of the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="content">protect me from the violent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="content">who devise ways to trip my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The arrogant have hidden a snare for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="content">they have spread out the cords of their net</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="content">and have set traps for me along my path.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.140.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I say to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;You are my God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.140.6"><span class="content">Hear, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.140.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.140.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my strong deliverer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.140.7"><span class="content">you shield my head in the day of battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.140.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not grant the wicked their desires, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"><span class="content">do not let their plans succeed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.140.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those who surround me proudly rear their heads;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.140.9"><span class="content">may the mischief of their lips engulf them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.140.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May burning coals fall on them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="content">may they be thrown into the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="content">into miry pits, never to rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May slanderers not be established in the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"><span class="content">may disaster hunt down the violent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.140.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> secures justice for the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.140.12"><span class="content">and upholds the cause of the needy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.140.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.140.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Surely the righteous will praise your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.140.13"><span class="content">and the upright will live in your presence.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">141</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 141</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.141.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I call to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, come quickly to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.141.1"><span class="content">hear me when I call to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.141.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May my prayer be set before you like incense;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"><span class="content">may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.141.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Set a guard over my mouth, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.141.3"><span class="content">keep watch over the door of my lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.141.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">so that I take part in wicked deeds</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">along with those who are evildoers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">do not let me eat their delicacies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let a righteous man strike me&#8212;that is a kindness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">let him rebuke me&#8212;that is oil on my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">My head will not refuse it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.141.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.141.6"><span class="content">and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.141.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They will say, &#8220;As one plows and breaks up the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"><span class="content">so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.141.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.141.8"><span class="content">in you I take refuge&#8212;do not give me over to death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.141.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.141.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.141.9"><span class="content">from the snares they have laid for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.141.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.141.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Let the wicked fall into their own nets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.141.10"><span class="content">while I pass by in safety.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">142</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 142</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 142:1-7 is numbered 142:2-8.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.142.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I cry aloud to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.142.1"><span class="content">I lift up my voice to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.142.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.142.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I pour out before him my complaint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.142.2"><span class="content">before him I tell my trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.142.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When my spirit grows faint within me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"><span class="content">it is you who watch over my way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"><span class="content">In the path where I walk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"><span class="content">people have hidden a snare for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"><span class="content">no one is concerned for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"><span class="content">I have no refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"><span class="content">no one cares for my life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.142.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I cry to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.142.5"><span class="content">I say, &#8220;You are my refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.142.5"><span class="content">my portion in the land of the living.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.142.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Listen to my cry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"><span class="content">for I am in desperate need;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"><span class="content">rescue me from those who pursue me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"><span class="content">for they are too strong for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.142.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Set me free from my prison,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.142.7"><span class="content">that I may praise your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.142.7"><span class="content">Then the righteous will gather about me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.142.7"><span class="content">because of your goodness to me.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">143</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 143</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.143.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, hear my prayer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.143.1"><span class="content">listen to my cry for mercy;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.143.1"><span class="content">in your faithfulness and righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.143.1"><span class="content">come to my relief.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.143.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.143.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Do not bring your servant into judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.143.2"><span class="content">for no one living is righteous before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.143.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.143.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The enemy pursues me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.143.3"><span class="content">he crushes me to the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.143.3"><span class="content">he makes me dwell in the darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.143.3"><span class="content">like those long dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.143.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.143.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So my spirit grows faint within me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.143.4"><span class="content">my heart within me is dismayed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.143.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.143.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I remember the days of long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.143.5"><span class="content">I meditate on all your works</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.143.5"><span class="content">and consider what your hands have done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.143.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.143.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I spread out my hands to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.143.6"><span class="content">I thirst for you like a parched land.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">143:6 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.143.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.143.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Answer me quickly, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.143.7"><span class="content">my spirit fails.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.143.7"><span class="content">Do not hide your face from me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.143.7"><span class="content">or I will be like those who go down to the pit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.143.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.143.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.143.8"><span class="content">for I have put my trust in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.143.8"><span class="content">Show me the way I should go,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.143.8"><span class="content">for to you I entrust my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.143.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.143.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Rescue me from my enemies, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.143.9"><span class="content">for I hide myself in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.143.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.143.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Teach me to do your will,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.143.10"><span class="content">for you are my God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.143.10"><span class="content">may your good Spirit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.143.10"><span class="content">lead me on level ground.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.143.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.143.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For your name&#8217;s sake, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, preserve my life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.143.11"><span class="content">in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.143.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.143.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.143.12"><span class="content">destroy all my foes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.143.12"><span class="content">for I am your servant.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">144</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 144</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.144.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my Rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.144.1"><span class="content">who trains my hands for war,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.144.1"><span class="content">my fingers for battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.144.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He is my loving God and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="content">my stronghold and my deliverer,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="content">my shield, in whom I take refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="content">who subdues peoples</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">144:2 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Jerome and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">subdues my people</span></span></span><span class="content"> under me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.144.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what are human beings that you care for them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.144.3"><span class="content">mere mortals that you think of them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.144.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.144.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They are like a breath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.144.4"><span class="content">their days are like a fleeting shadow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.144.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.144.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Part your heavens, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and come down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.144.5"><span class="content">touch the mountains, so that they smoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.144.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.144.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.144.6"><span class="content">shoot your arrows and rout them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.144.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Reach down your hand from on high;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="content">deliver me and rescue me</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="content">from the mighty waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="content">from the hands of foreigners</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.144.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">whose mouths are full of lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.144.8"><span class="content">whose right hands are deceitful.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.144.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.144.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will sing a new song to you, my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.144.9"><span class="content">on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.144.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.144.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">to the One who gives victory to kings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.144.10"><span class="content">who delivers his servant David.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.144.10"><span class="content">From the deadly sword </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">deliver me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="content">rescue me from the hands of foreigners</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="content">whose mouths are full of lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="content">whose right hands are deceitful.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then our sons in their youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="content">will be like well-nurtured plants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="content">and our daughters will be like pillars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="content">carved to adorn a palace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Our barns will be filled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="content">with every kind of provision.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="content">Our sheep will increase by thousands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="content">by tens of thousands in our fields;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">our oxen will draw heavy loads.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">144:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">our chieftains will be firmly established</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="content">There will be no breaching of walls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="content">no going into captivity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="content">no cry of distress in our streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.144.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Blessed is the people of whom this is true;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.144.15"><span class="content">blessed is the people whose God is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For John baptized with</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">water, but in a few days you will be baptized with</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the Holy Spirit.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then they gathered around him and asked him, &#8220;Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He said to them: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Men of Galilee,&#8221; they said, &#8220;why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day&#8217;s walk</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 5/8 mile or about 1 kilometer</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the city. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;Brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:16 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 6:3; 11:29; 12:17; 16:40; 18:18, 27; 21:7, 17; 28:14, 15.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He was one of our number and shared in our ministry.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">(With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;For,&#8221; said Peter, &#8220;it is written in the Book of Psalms:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;May his place be deserted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">let there be no one to dwell in it,&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 69:25</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;May another take his place of leadership.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 109:8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">beginning from John&#8217;s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So they nominated two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then they prayed, &#8220;Lord, you know everyone&#8217;s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">languages</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 11</span></span></span><span class="content"> as the Spirit enabled them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Utterly amazed, they asked: &#8220;Aren&#8217;t all these who are speaking Galileans? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Roman province by that name</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">(both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs&#8212;we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, &#8220;What does this mean?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Some, however, made fun of them and said, &#8220;They have had too much wine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Addresses the Crowd</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: &#8220;Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It&#8217;s only nine in the morning! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;In the last days, God says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">I will pour out my Spirit on all people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">Your sons and daughters will prophesy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">your young men will see visions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">your old men will dream dreams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even on my servants, both men and women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="content">I will pour out my Spirit in those days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="content">and they will prophesy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will show wonders in the heavens above</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="content">and signs on the earth below,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="content">blood and fire and billows of smoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The sun will be turned to darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="content">and the moon to blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="content">before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And everyone who calls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.2.21"><span class="content">on the name of the Lord will be saved.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:21 </span><span class="ft">Joel 2:28-32</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">This man was handed over to you by God&#8217;s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of those not having the law </span><span class="ft">(that is, Gentiles)</span></span></span><span class="content"> put him to death by nailing him to the cross. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">David said about him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I saw the Lord always before me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">Because he is at my right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">I will not be shaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.2.26"><span class="content">my body also will rest in hope,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.2.27"><span class="content">you will not let your holy one see decay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.2.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You have made known to me the paths of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.2.28"><span class="content">you will fill me with joy in your presence.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:28 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 16:8-11 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.2.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.2.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.2.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.2.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.2.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.2.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.2.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">until I make your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.2.35"><span class="content">a footstool for your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:35 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 110:1</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.2.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.2.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.2.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.2.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, &#8220;Brothers, what shall we do?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.2.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.2.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Peter replied, &#8220;Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.2.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off&#8212;for all whom the Lord our God will call.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.2.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.2.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, &#8220;Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.2.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fellowship of the Believers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.2.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.2.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">They devoted themselves to the apostles&#8217; teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.2.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="ACT.2.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">All the believers were together and had everything in common. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.2.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.2.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.2.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Heals a Lame Beggar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer&#8212;at three in the afternoon. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, &#8220;Look at us!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Peter said, &#8220;Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man&#8217;s feet and ankles became strong. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When all the people saw him walking and praising God, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Speaks to the Onlookers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">While the man held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon&#8217;s Colonnade. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Peter saw this, he said to them: &#8220;Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus&#8217; name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you&#8212;even Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For Moses said, &#8216;The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:23 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 18:15,18,19</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Indeed, beginning with Samuel, all the prophets who have spoken have foretold these days. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, &#8216;Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:25 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 22:18; 26:4</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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