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   <div class="book bkEXO">
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;These are the laws you are to set before them:</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hebrew Servants</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if the servant declares, &#8216;I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">then his master must take him before the judges.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">before God</span></span></span><span class="content"> He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">master so that he does not choose her</span></span></span><span class="content"> he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Personal Injuries</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who attacks</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">kills</span></span></span><span class="content"> their father or mother is to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper&#8217;s possession.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">with a tool</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the victim does not die but is confined to bed, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">she has a miscarriage</span></span></span><span class="content"> but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman&#8217;s husband demands and the court allows. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:32 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 12 ounces or about 345 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.21.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.21.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EXO.21.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone&#8217;s bull injures someone else&#8217;s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EXO.21.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkEXO">
      <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="EXO.22">
         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Protection of Property</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 22:1 is numbered 21:37, and 22:2-31 is numbered 22:1-30.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.22.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If the stolen animal is found alive in their possession&#8212;whether ox or donkey or sheep&#8212;they must pay back double.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else&#8217;s field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a fire breaks out and spreads into thornbushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor&#8217;s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">before God, and he will</span></span></span><span class="content"> determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person&#8217;s property. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says, &#8216;This is mine,&#8217; both parties are to bring their cases before the judges.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">before God</span></span></span><span class="content"> The one whom the judges declare</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">whom God declares</span></span></span><span class="content"> guilty must pay back double to the other.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to their neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person&#8217;s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be required to pay for the torn animal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Social Responsibility</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not allow a sorceress to live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> must be destroyed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:20 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">If you take your neighbor&#8217;s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not blaspheme God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:28 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Do not revile the judges</span></span></span><span class="content"> or curse the ruler of your people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:29 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.22.29"><span class="content">&#8220;You must give me the firstborn of your sons. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.22.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts; throw it to the dogs.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The next day the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and others of the high priest&#8217;s family. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: &#8220;By what power or what name did you do this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: &#8220;Rulers and elders of the people! </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus is</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.4.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;the stone you builders rejected,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.4.11"><span class="content">which has become the cornerstone.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:11 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So they ordered them to withdraw from the Sanhedrin and then conferred together. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;What are we going to do with these men?&#8221; they asked. &#8220;Everyone living in Jerusalem knows they have performed a notable sign, and we cannot deny it. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But to stop this thing from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them to speak no longer to anyone in this name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But Peter and John replied, &#8220;Which is right in God&#8217;s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges! </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">After further threats they let them go. They could not decide how to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Believers Pray</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. &#8220;Sovereign Lord,&#8221; they said, &#8220;you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Why do the nations rage</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">and the peoples plot in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth rise up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">and the rulers band together</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">against the Lord</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">and against his anointed one.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">That is, Messiah or Christ</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:1,2</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.4.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Believers Share Their Possessions</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.4.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God&#8217;s grace was so powerfully at work in them all </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">and put it at the apostles&#8217; feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.4.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means &#8220;son of encouragement&#8221;), </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles&#8217; feet.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 12</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 12:1-8 is numbered 12:2-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">sheminith.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Help, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for no one is faithful anymore;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.12.1"><span class="content">those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Everyone lies to their neighbor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="content">they flatter with their lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="content">but harbor deception in their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> silence all flattering lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.12.3"><span class="content">and every boastful tongue&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">those who say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="content">&#8220;By our tongues we will prevail;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="content">our own lips will defend us&#8212;who is lord over us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="content">I will now arise,&#8221; says the </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.12.5"><span class="content">&#8220;I will protect them from those who malign them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the words of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are flawless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="content">like silver purified in a crucible,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="content">like gold</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:6 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">earth</span></span></span><span class="content"> refined seven times.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, will keep the needy safe</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.12.7"><span class="content">and will protect us forever from the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who freely strut about</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.12.8"><span class="content">when what is vile is honored by the human race.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The wicked flee though no one pursues,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.28.1"><span class="content">but the righteous are as bold as a lion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.28.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.28.2"><span class="content">but a ruler with discernment and knowledge maintains order.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.28.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A ruler</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">A poor person</span></span></span><span class="content"> who oppresses the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.28.3"><span class="content">is like a driving rain that leaves no crops.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.28.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.28.4"><span class="content">but those who heed it resist them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.28.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Evildoers do not understand what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.28.5"><span class="content">but those who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> understand it fully.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.28.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Better the poor whose walk is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.28.6"><span class="content">than the rich whose ways are perverse.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.28.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A discerning son heeds instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.28.7"><span class="content">but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.28.8"><span class="content">amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.28.9"><span class="content">even their prayers are detestable.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.28.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Whoever leads the upright along an evil path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.28.10"><span class="content">will fall into their own trap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.28.10"><span class="content">but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The rich are wise in their own eyes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.28.11"><span class="content">one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.28.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the righteous triumph, there is great elation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.28.12"><span class="content">but when the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.28.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.28.13"><span class="content">but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.28.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who always trembles before God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.28.14"><span class="content">but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.28.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Like a roaring lion or a charging bear</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.28.15"><span class="content">is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A tyrannical ruler practices extortion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.28.16"><span class="content">but one who hates ill-gotten gain will enjoy a long reign.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.28.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Anyone tormented by the guilt of murder</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.28.17"><span class="content">will seek refuge in the grave;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.28.17"><span class="content">let no one hold them back.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.28.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The one whose walk is blameless is kept safe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.28.18"><span class="content">but the one whose ways are perverse will fall into the pit.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:18 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see Septuagint); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">into one</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.28.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Those who work their land will have abundant food,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.28.19"><span class="content">but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.28.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">A faithful person will be richly blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.28.20"><span class="content">but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.28.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To show partiality is not good&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.28.21"><span class="content">yet a person will do wrong for a piece of bread.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.28.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The stingy are eager to get rich</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.28.22"><span class="content">and are unaware that poverty awaits them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.28.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Whoever rebukes a person will in the end gain favor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.28.23"><span class="content">rather than one who has a flattering tongue.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.28.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Whoever robs their father or mother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.28.24"><span class="content">and says, &#8220;It&#8217;s not wrong,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.28.24"><span class="content">is partner to one who destroys.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.28.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The greedy stir up conflict,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.28.25"><span class="content">but those who trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will prosper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.28.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.28.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Those who trust in themselves are fools,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.28.26"><span class="content">but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.28.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.28.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Those who give to the poor will lack nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.28.27"><span class="content">but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.28.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.28.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.28.28"><span class="content">but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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