Exodus 29

• 1. "This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they may serve me as priests: Take a young bull and two rams without defect.
• 2. And from fine wheat flour, without yeast, make bread, and cakes mixed with oil, and wafers spread with oil.
• 3. Put them in a basket and present them in it-along with the bull and the two rams.
• 4. Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
• 5. Take the garments and dress Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself and the breastpiece. Fasten the ephod on him by its skillfully woven waistband.
• 6. Put the turban on his head and attach the sacred diadem to the turban.
• 7. Take the anointing oil and anoint him by pouring it on his head.
• 8. Bring his sons and dress them in tunics
• 9. and put headbands on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance. In this way you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
• 10. "Bring the bull to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
• 11. Slaughter it in the LORD's presence at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
• 12. Take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar.
• 13. Then take all the fat around the inner parts, the covering of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
• 14. But burn the bull's flesh and its hide and its offal outside the camp. It is a sin offering.
• 15. "Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
• 16. Slaughter it and take the blood and sprinkle it against the altar on all sides.
• 17. Cut the ram into pieces and wash the inner parts and the legs, putting them with the head and the other pieces.
• 18. Then burn the entire ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire.
• 19. "Take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
• 20. Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then sprinkle blood against the altar on all sides.
• 21. And take some of the blood on the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.
• 22. "Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat around the inner parts, the covering of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This is the ram for the ordination.)
• 23. From the basket of bread made without yeast, which is before the LORD, take a loaf, and a cake made with oil, and a wafer.
• 24. Put all these in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.
• 25. Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar along with the burnt offering for a pleasing aroma to the LORD, an offering made to the LORD by fire.
• 26. After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron's ordination, wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your share.
• 27. "Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons: the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented.
• 28. This is always to be the regular share from the Israelites for Aaron and his sons. It is the contribution the Israelites are to make to the LORD from their fellowship offerings.
• 29. "Aaron's sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.
• 30. The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days.
• 31. "Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meat in a sacred place.
• 32. At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
• 33. They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no one else may eat them, because they are sacred.
• 34. And if any of the meat of the ordination ram or any bread is left over till morning, burn it up. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
• 35. "Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.
• 36. Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
• 37. For seven days make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, and whatever touches it will be holy.
• 38. "This is what you are to offer on the altar regularly each day: two lambs a year old.
• 39. Offer one in the morning and the other at twilight.
• 40. With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
• 41. Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning-a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire.
• 42. "For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD. There I will meet you and speak to you;
• 43. there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory.
• 44. "So I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
• 45. Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
• 46. They will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.

John 9

• 1. As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
• 2. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
• 3. "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.
• 4. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
• 5. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
• 6. Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.
• 7. "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
• 8. His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?"
• 9. Some claimed that he was. Others said, "No, he only looks like him." But he himself insisted, "I am the man."
• 10. "How then were your eyes opened?" they demanded.
• 11. He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see."
• 12. "Where is this man?" they asked him. "I don't know," he said.
• 13. They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
• 14. Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man's eyes was a Sabbath.
• 15. Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. "He put mud on my eyes," the man replied, "and I washed, and now I see."
• 16. Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others asked, "How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?" So they were divided.
• 17. Finally they turned again to the blind man, "What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened." The man replied, "He is a prophet."
• 18. The Jews still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man's parents.
• 19. "Is this your son?" they asked. "Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?"
• 20. "We know he is our son," the parents answered, "and we know he was born blind.
• 21. But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don't know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself."
• 22. His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for already the Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
• 23. That was why his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."
• 24. A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. "Give glory to God, "they said. "We know this man is a sinner."
• 25. He replied, "Whether he is a sinner or not, I don't know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!"
• 26. Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
• 27. He answered, "I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?"
• 28. Then they hurled insults at him and said, "You are this fellow's disciple! We are disciples of Moses!
• 29. We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don't even know where he comes from."
• 30. The man answered, "Now that is remarkable! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
• 31. We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will.
• 32. Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.
• 33. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
• 34. To this they replied, "You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!" And they threw him out.
• 35. Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
• 36. "Who is he, sir?" the man asked. "Tell me so that I may believe in him."
• 37. Jesus said, "You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you."
• 38. Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.
• 39. Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind."
• 40. Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, "What? Are we blind too?"
• 41. Jesus said, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

Proverbs 6

• 1. My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge for another,
• 2. if you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
• 3. then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor!
• 4. Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
• 5. Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
• 6. Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
• 7. It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
• 8. yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
• 9. How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
• 10. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-
• 11. and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
• 12. A scoundrel and villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
• 13. who winks with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
• 14. who plots evil with deceit in his heart- he always stirs up dissension.
• 15. Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed-without remedy.
• 16. There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:
• 17. haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
• 18. a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
• 19. a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
• 20. My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
• 21. Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten them around your neck.
• 22. When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
• 23. For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,
• 24. keeping you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
• 25. Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,
• 26. for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
• 27. Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
• 28. Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
• 29. So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
• 30. Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
• 31. Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
• 32. But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
• 33. Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;
• 34. for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
• 35. He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.

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