Leviticus 18

• 1. The LORD said to Moses,
• 2. "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the LORD your God.
• 3. You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.
• 4. You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God.
• 5. Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
• 6. "'No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
• 7. "'Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.
• 8. "'Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father.
• 9. "'Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
• 10. "'Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you.
• 11. "'Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
• 12. "'Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative.
• 13. "'Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative.
• 14. "'Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.
• 15. "'Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her.
• 16. "'Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother.
• 17. "'Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.
• 18. "'Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.
• 19. "'Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.
• 20. "'Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her.
• 21. "'Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
• 22. "'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
• 23. "'Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
• 24. "'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.
• 25. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
• 26. But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things,
• 27. for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled.
• 28. And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
• 29. "'Everyone who does any of these detestable things-such persons must be cut off from their people.
• 30. Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.'"

Psalms 22

• 1. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
• 2. O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.
• 3. Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.
• 4. In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
• 5. They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.
• 6. But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
• 7. All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
• 8. "He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him."
• 9. Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast.
• 10. From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.
• 11. Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
• 12. Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
• 13. Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.
• 14. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.
• 15. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
• 16. Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.
• 17. I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.
• 18. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.
• 19. But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
• 20. Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.
• 21. Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.
• 22. I will declare your name to my brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.
• 23. You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
• 24. For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.
• 25. From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you will I fulfill my vows.
• 26. The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the LORD will praise him- may your hearts live forever!
• 27. All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,
• 28. for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.
• 29. All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him- those who cannot keep themselves alive.
• 30. Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.
• 31. They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn- for he has done it.

Ecclesiastes 1

• 1. The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
• 2. "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."
• 3. What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?
• 4. Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
• 5. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
• 6. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
• 7. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
• 8. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
• 9. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
• 10. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
• 11. There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.
• 12. I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
• 13. I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men!
• 14. I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
• 15. What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
• 16. I thought to myself, "Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge."
• 17. Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
• 18. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.

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