Exodus 6

• 1. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country."
• 2. God also said to Moses, "I am the LORD.
• 3. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.
• 4. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they lived as aliens.
• 5. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
• 6. "Therefore, say to the Israelites: 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
• 7. I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
• 8. And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.'"
• 9. Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and cruel bondage.
• 10. Then the LORD said to Moses,
• 11. "Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country."
• 12. But Moses said to the LORD, "If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?"
• 13. Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
• 14. These were the heads of their families: The sons of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.
• 15. The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.
• 16. These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
• 17. The sons of Gershon, by clans, were Libni and Shimei.
• 18. The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.
• 19. The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi according to their records.
• 20. Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
• 21. The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg and Zicri.
• 22. The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri.
• 23. Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
• 24. The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.
• 25. Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.
• 26. It was this same Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, "Bring the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions."
• 27. They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt. It was the same Moses and Aaron.
• 28. Now when the LORD spoke to Moses in Egypt,
• 29. he said to him, "I am the LORD. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you."
• 30. But Moses said to the LORD, "Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?"

Luke 11

• 1. One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."
• 2. He said to them, "When you pray, say: "'Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.
• 3. Give us each day our daily bread.
• 4. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation. '"
• 5. Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
• 6. because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.'
• 7. "Then the one inside answers, 'Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.'
• 8. I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man's boldness he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
• 9. "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
• 10. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
• 11. "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
• 12. Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
• 13. If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
• 14. Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed.
• 15. But some of them said, "By Beelzebub, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons."
• 16. Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.
• 17. Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: "Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall.
• 18. If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Beelzebub.
• 19. Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.
• 20. But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.
• 21. "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe.
• 22. But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up the spoils.
• 23. "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters.
• 24. "When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.'
• 25. When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.
• 26. Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first."
• 27. As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you."
• 28. He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
• 29. As the crowds increased, Jesus said, "This is a wicked generation. It asks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.
• 30. For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation.
• 31. The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now one greater than Solomon is here.
• 32. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.
• 33. "No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.
• 34. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness.
• 35. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
• 36. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you."
• 37. When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table.
• 38. But the Pharisee, noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal, was surprised.
• 39. Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
• 40. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?
• 41. But give what is inside the dish to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.
• 42. "Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.
• 43. "Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
• 44. "Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without knowing it."
• 45. One of the experts in the law answered him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also."
• 46. Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
• 47. "Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your forefathers who killed them.
• 48. So you testify that you approve of what your forefathers did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.
• 49. Because of this, God in his wisdom said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.'
• 50. Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,
• 51. from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all.
• 52. "Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."
• 53. When Jesus left there, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions,
• 54. waiting to catch him in something he might say.

Job 24

• 1. "Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
• 2. Men move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
• 3. They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge.
• 4. They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
• 5. Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
• 6. They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
• 7. Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
• 8. They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.
• 9. The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
• 10. Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
• 11. They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
• 12. The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
• 13. "There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
• 14. When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills the poor and needy; in the night he steals forth like a thief.
• 15. The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, 'No eye will see me,' and he keeps his face concealed.
• 16. In the dark, men break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.
• 17. For all of them, deep darkness is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness.
• 18. "Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
• 19. As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
• 20. The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; evil men are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
• 21. They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the widow show no kindness.
• 22. But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
• 23. He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
• 24. For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
• 25. "If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?"

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