Exodus 8

• 1. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
• 2. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.
• 3. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.
• 4. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials.'"
• 5. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.'"
• 6. So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land.
• 7. But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
• 8. Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD."
• 9. Moses said to Pharaoh, "I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile."
• 10. "Tomorrow," Pharaoh said. Moses replied, "It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the LORD our God.
• 11. The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile."
• 12. After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD about the frogs he had brought on Pharaoh.
• 13. And the LORD did what Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields.
• 14. They were piled into heaps, and the land reeked of them.
• 15. But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
• 16. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,' and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats."
• 17. They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came upon men and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became gnats.
• 18. But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not. And the gnats were on men and animals.
• 19. The magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hard and he would not listen, just as the LORD had said.
• 20. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the water and say to him, 'This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
• 21. If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground where they are.
• 22. "'But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the LORD, am in this land.
• 23. I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This miraculous sign will occur tomorrow.'"
• 24. And the LORD did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh's palace and into the houses of his officials, and throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.
• 25. Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land."
• 26. But Moses said, "That would not be right. The sacrifices we offer the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. And if we offer sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not stone us?
• 27. We must take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, as he commands us."
• 28. Pharaoh said, "I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the desert, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me."
• 29. Moses answered, "As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Only be sure that Pharaoh does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD."
• 30. Then Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD,
• 31. and the LORD did what Moses asked: The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained.
• 32. But this time also Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the people go.

Luke 13

• 1. Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
• 2. Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?
• 3. I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
• 4. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them--do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?
• 5. I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
• 6. Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.
• 7. So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'
• 8. "'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it.
• 9. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.'"
• 10. On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,
• 11. and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
• 12. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity."
• 13. Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.
• 14. Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the people, "There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath."
• 15. The Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water?
• 16. Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?"
• 17. When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.
• 18. Then Jesus asked, "What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to?
• 19. It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches."
• 20. Again he asked, "What shall I compare the kingdom of God to?
• 21. It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough."
• 22. Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem.
• 23. Someone asked him, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?"
• 24. He said to them, "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
• 25. Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, 'Sir, open the door for us.'"But he will answer, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
• 26. "Then you will say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'
• 27. "But he will reply, 'I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!'
• 28. "There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.
• 29. People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.
• 30. Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last."
• 31. At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, "Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you."
• 32. He replied, "Go tell that fox, 'I will drive out demons and heal people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.'
• 33. In any case, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day--for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!
• 34. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
• 35. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

Job 27

• 1. And Job continued his discourse:
• 2. "As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul,
• 3. as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
• 4. my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit.
• 5. I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
• 6. I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
• 7. "May my enemies be like the wicked, my adversaries like the unjust!
• 8. For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• 9. Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?
• 10. Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
• 11. "I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
• 12. You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
• 13. "Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
• 14. However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
• 15. The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
• 16. Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
• 17. what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
• 18. The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
• 19. He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
• 20. Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
• 21. The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
• 22. It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
• 23. It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.

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