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Deuteronomy 23-24
Chapter 23
Persons Excluded from the Assembly
1 "(C1)No one who is (F1)emasculated or has his male organ cut off may enter the assembly of the LORD.2 "No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the assembly of the LORD.3 "(C1)No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the assembly of the LORD,4 (C1)because they did not meet you with (F1)food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you (C2)Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of (F2)Mesopotamia, to curse you.5 "Nevertheless, the LORD your God was unwilling to listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God (C1)turned the curse into a blessing for you because the LORD your God (C2)loves you.6 "(C1)You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.
7 "You shall not loathe an (F1)Edomite, for (C1)he is your brother; you shall not loathe an Egyptian, (C2)because you were a stranger in his land.8 "The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
9 "When you go out as (F1)an army against your enemies, you shall be on guard against every evil thing.
10 "(C1)If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not (F1)reenter the camp.11 "But when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water, and at sundown he may (F1)reenter the camp.
12 "You shall also have a place allocated outside the camp, so that you may go out there to relieve yourself,13 and you shall have a (F1)spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn and cover up your excrement.14 "Since (C1)the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp to save you and to (F1)defeat your enemies before you, your camp must be (C2)holy; so He must not see (F2)anything indecent among you (F3)or He will turn away from you.
15 "(C1)You shall not hand over to his master a slave who has (F1)escaped from his master to you.16 "He shall live with you in your midst, in the place that he chooses in one of your (F1)towns where it pleases him; (C1)you shall not mistreat him.
17 "(C1)None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, (C2)nor shall any of the sons of Israel be a cult prostitute.18 "You shall not bring the earnings of a prostitute or the money for a (F1)(C1)dog into the house of the LORD your God as payment for any vowed offering, because both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
19 "(C1)You are not to charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned on interest.20 "(C1)You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that (C2)the LORD your God may bless you in all (F1)that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to (F2)possess.
21 "(C1)When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for the LORD your God will certainly require it of you, and it will be a sin (F1)for you.22 "However, if you refrain from making vows, it will not be a sin (F1)for you.23 "You shall be careful and perform what goes out of your lips, since in fact you have vowed a (F1)voluntary offering to the LORD your God, whatever you have (F2)promised.
24 "When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat grapes (F1)until you are satisfied; but you are not to put any in your (F2)basket.
25 "(C1)When you enter your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you are not to (F1)use a sickle on your neighbor's standing grain.
Chapter 24
Law of Divorce
1 "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some (C1)indecency in her, that (C2)he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and (F1)sends her away from his house,2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,3 and the latter husband (F1)turns against her, writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand, and (F2)sends her away from his house, or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies,4 then her (C1)former husband who (F1)sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, after (F2)she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5 "(C1)When a man takes a new wife, he is not to go out with the army, nor be assigned any duty; he shall be free at home for one year and shall (C2)make his wife whom he has taken happy.
Various Laws
6 "No one shall seize a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge for a loan, since he would be seizing the debtor's (F1)means of life as a pledge.
7 "(C1)If someone is (F1)caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he treats him as merchandise and sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall eliminate the evil from among you.
8 "(C1)Be careful about an infestation of leprosy, that you are very attentive and act in accordance with everything that the Levitical priests teach you; just as I have commanded them, you shall be careful to act.9 "Remember what the LORD your God did (C1)to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.
10 "(C1)When you make your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.11 "You shall stand outside, and the person to whom you are making the loan shall bring the pledge outside to you.12 "And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.13 "(C1)When the sun goes down you shall certainly return the pledge to him, so that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and (C2)it will be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.
14 "(C1)You shall not exploit a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your strangers who are in your land in your (F1)towns.15 "(C1)You shall give him his wages on his day (F1)before the sun sets—for he is poor and sets his (F2)heart on it—so that (C2)he does not cry out against you to the LORD, and it becomes a sin in you.
16 "(C1)Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin alone.
17 "(C1)You shall not pervert the justice (F1)due a stranger or (F2)an orphan, nor (C2)seize a widow's garment as a (F3)pledge.18 "But you are to remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.
19 "(C1)When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you are not to go back to get it; it shall belong (C2)to the stranger, the (F1)orphan, and to the widow, in order that the LORD your God (C3)may bless you in all the work of your hands.20 "(C1)When you beat the olives off your olive tree, you are not to search through the branches (F1)again; that shall be left (C2)for the stranger, the (F2)orphan, and for the widow.
21 "When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you are not to (F1)go over it again; that shall be left for the stranger, the (F2)orphan, and the widow.22 "And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.
Job 15
Chapter 15
Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,
2 "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,
(C1)And fill (F1)himself with the east wind?
3 "Should he argue with useless talk,
Or with words which do not benefit?
4 "Indeed, you do away with (F1)reverence,
And hinder meditation before God.
5 "For (C1)your wrongdoing teaches your mouth,
And you choose the language of (C2)the cunning.
6 "Your (C1)own mouth condemns you, and not I;
And your own lips testify against you.
7 "Were you the first person to be born,
Or (C1)were you brought forth before the hills?
8 "Do you hear the (C1)secret discussion of God,
And limit wisdom to yourself?
9 "(C1)What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that (F1)we do not?
10 "Both the (C1)gray-haired and the aged are among us,
Older than your father.
11 "Are (C1)the consolations of God too little for you,
Or the (C2)word spoken gently to you?
12 "Why does your (C1)heart take you away?
And why do your eyes wink,
13 That you can turn your spirit against God
And produce such words from your mouth?
14 "What is man, that (C1)he would be pure,
Or (C2)he who is born of a woman, that he would be righteous?
15 "Behold, He has no trust in His (C1)holy ones,
And the (C2)heavens are not pure in His sight;
16 How much less one who is (C1)detestable and corrupt:
A person who (C2)drinks (F1)malice like water!
What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life
17 "I will tell you, listen to me;
And what I have seen I will also declare;
18 What wise people have told,
And have not concealed from (C1)their fathers,
19 To whom alone the land was given,
And no stranger passed among them.
20 "The wicked person writhes (C1)in pain all his days,
And the (F1)years (C2)reserved for the ruthless are numbered.
21 "(F1)Sounds of (C1)terror are in his ears;
(C2)While he is at peace the destroyer comes upon him.
22 "He does not believe that he will (C1)return from darkness,
And he is destined for (C2)the sword.
23 "He wanders about for food, saying, 'Where is it?'
He knows that a day of (C1)darkness is (F1)at hand.
24 "Distress and anguish terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,
25 Because he has reached out with his hand against God,
And is (C1)arrogant toward (F1)the Almighty.
26 "He rushes (F1)headlong at Him
With his (F2)massive shield.
27 "For he has (C1)covered his face with his fat,
And (F1)put fat on his waist.
28 "He has (C1)lived in desolate cities,
In houses no one would inhabit,
Which are destined to become (F1)ruins.
29 "He (C1)will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;
And his property will not stretch out on the earth.
30 "He will (C1)not (F1)escape from darkness;
The (C2)flame will dry up his shoot,
And he will go away by (C3)the breath of His mouth.
31 "Let him not (C1)trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For his (F1)reward will be emptiness.
32 "It will be accomplished (C1)before his time,
And his palm (C2)branch will not be green.
33 "He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,
And will (C1)cast off his flower like the olive tree.
34 "For the company of (C1)the godless is barren,
And fire consumes (C2)the tents of (F1)the corrupt.
35 "They (C1)conceive (F1)harm and give birth to wrongdoing,
And their (F2)mind prepares deception."
Acts 5:1-16
Chapter 5
Fate of Ananias and Sapphira
1 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,2 and (C1)kept back some of the (F1)proceeds for himself, with his wife's (F2)full knowledge, and bringing a portion of it, he (C2)laid it at the apostles' feet.3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has (C1)Satan filled your heart to lie (C2)to the Holy Spirit and to (C3)keep back some of the (F1)proceeds of the land?4 "While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not (F1)under your control? Why is it that you have (F2)conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but (C1)to God."5 And as he heard these words, Ananias (C1)collapsed and (F1)died; and (C2)great fear came over all who heard about it.6 The young men got up and (C1)covered him up, and after carrying him out, they buried him.
7 Now an interval of about three hours elapsed, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.8 And Peter responded to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land (C1)for (F1)this price?" And she said, "Yes, for (F1)that price."9 Then Peter said to her, "Why is it that you have agreed together to (C1)put (C2)the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out as well."10 And immediately she (C1)collapsed at his feet and (F1)died; and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.11 And (C1)great fear came over the whole church, and over all who heard about these things.
12 (F1)At the hands of the apostles many (F2)(C1)signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all (F3)together in (C2)Solomon's (F4)portico.13 But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, (C1)the people held them in high esteem.14 And increasingly (C1)believers in the Lord, large numbers of men and women, were being (C2)added to their number,15 to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by (C1)at least his shadow might fall on any of them.16 The (F1)people from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together as well, bringing people who were sick (F2)or tormented with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.<
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