Exodus 2

• 1. Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
• 2. and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
• 3. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
• 4. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
• 5. Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.
• 6. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said.
• 7. Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?"
• 8. "Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother.
• 9. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
• 10. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water."
• 11. One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
• 12. Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
• 13. The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"
• 14. The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known."
• 15. When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
• 16. Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
• 17. Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
• 18. When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"
• 19. They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock."
• 20. "And where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat."
• 21. Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
• 22. Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, "I have become an alien in a foreign land."
• 23. During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
• 24. God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
• 25. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

Luke 7

• 1. When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum.
• 2. There a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die.
• 3. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant.
• 4. When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this,
• 5. because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue."
• 6. So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof.
• 7. That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed.
• 8. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
• 9. When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel."
• 10. Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.
• 11. Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him.
• 12. As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out--the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
• 13. When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, "Don't cry."
• 14. Then he went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!"
• 15. The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.
• 16. They were all filled with awe and praised God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said. "God has come to help his people."
• 17. This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.
• 18. John's disciples told him about all these things. Calling two of them,
• 19. he sent them to the Lord to ask, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?"
• 20. When the men came to Jesus, they said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?'"
• 21. At that very time Jesus cured many who had diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits, and gave sight to many who were blind.
• 22. So he replied to the messengers, "Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
• 23. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me."
• 24. After John's messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?
• 25. If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear expensive clothes and indulge in luxury are in palaces.
• 26. But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
• 27. This is the one about whom it is written: "'I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'
• 28. I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John; yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
• 29. (All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus' words, acknowledged that God's way was right, because they had been baptized by John.
• 30. But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God's purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
• 31. "To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?
• 32. They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other: "'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not cry.'
• 33. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
• 34. The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners."'
• 35. But wisdom is proved right by all her children."
• 36. Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went to the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table.
• 37. When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume,
• 38. and as she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.
• 39. When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is--that she is a sinner."
• 40. Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you.Tell me, teacher," he said.
• 41. "Two men owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
• 42. Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?"
• 43. Simon replied, "I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.You have judged correctly," Jesus said.
• 44. Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
• 45. You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet.
• 46. You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet.
• 47. Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven--for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little."
• 48. Then Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
• 49. The other guests began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
• 50. Jesus said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

Job 20

• 1. Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
• 2. "My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.
• 3. I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.
• 4. "Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth,
• 5. that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
• 6. Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
• 7. he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
• 8. Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.
• 9. The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.
• 10. His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.
• 11. The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.
• 12. "Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,
• 13. though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
• 14. yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.
• 15. He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.
• 16. He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him.
• 17. He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.
• 18. What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.
• 19. For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.
• 20. "Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.
• 21. Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.
• 22. In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.
• 23. When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him.
• 24. Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
• 25. He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;
• 26. total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
• 27. The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.
• 28. A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.
• 29. Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God."

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