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God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.

The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.

My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

[Lover] If you don't know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh!

its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.

After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.

As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."

Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.

For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."

They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,

He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."

Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks."

Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."

Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;

Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."

Again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.

This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."

and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped safely to the land.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.