Genesis 50

• 1. Joseph threw himself upon his father and wept over him and kissed him.
• 2. Then Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So the physicians embalmed him,
• 3. taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
• 4. When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's court, "If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,
• 5. 'My father made me swear an oath and said, "I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.'"
• 6. Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do."
• 7. So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh's officials accompanied him-the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt-
• 8. besides all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to his father's household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
• 9. Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company.
• 10. When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.
• 11. When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning." That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.
• 12. So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them:
• 13. They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.
• 14. After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, together with his brothers and all the others who had gone with him to bury his father.
• 15. When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?"
• 16. So they sent word to Joseph, saying, "Your father left these instructions before he died:
• 17. 'This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.' Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father." When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
• 18. His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. "We are your slaves," they said.
• 19. But Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
• 20. You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
• 21. So then, don't be afraid. I will provide for you and your children." And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
• 22. Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father's family. He lived a hundred and ten years
• 23. and saw the third generation of Ephraim's children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph's knees.
• 24. Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
• 25. And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath and said, "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place."
• 26. So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Luke 5

• 1. One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the people crowding around him and listening to the word of God,
• 2. he saw at the water's edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets.
• 3. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
• 4. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch."
• 5. Simon answered, "Master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets."
• 6. When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.
• 7. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.
• 8. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!"
• 9. For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,
• 10. and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon's partners.
• 11. Then Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid; from now on you will catch men." So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.
• 12. While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."
• 13. Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!" And immediately the leprosy left him.
• 14. Then Jesus ordered him, "Don't tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."
• 15. Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.
• 16. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
• 17. One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there. And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick.
• 18. Some men came carrying a paralytic on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus.
• 19. When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
• 20. When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."
• 21. The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
• 22. Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, "Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
• 23. Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?
• 24. But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...." He said to the paralyzed man, "I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home."
• 25. Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God.
• 26. Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, "We have seen remarkable things today."
• 27. After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him,
• 28. and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
• 29. Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.
• 30. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
• 31. Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
• 32. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
• 33. They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking."
• 34. Jesus answered, "Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?
• 35. But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast."
• 36. He told them this parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
• 37. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.
• 38. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.
• 39. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"

Job 18

• 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
• 2. "When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
• 3. Why are we regarded as cattle and considered stupid in your sight?
• 4. You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?
• 5. "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out; the flame of his fire stops burning.
• 6. The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
• 7. The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
• 8. His feet thrust him into a net and he wanders into its mesh.
• 9. A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
• 10. A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.
• 11. Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
• 12. Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
• 13. It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs.
• 14. He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
• 15. Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.
• 16. His roots dry up below and his branches wither above.
• 17. The memory of him perishes from the earth; he has no name in the land.
• 18. He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
• 19. He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.
• 20. Men of the west are appalled at his fate; men of the east are seized with horror.
• 21. Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who knows not God."

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