Exodus 34

• 1. The LORD said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
• 2. Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.
• 3. No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain."
• 4. So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.
• 5. Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD.
• 6. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,
• 7. maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation."
• 8. Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.
• 9. "O Lord, if I have found favor in your eyes," he said, "then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance."
• 10. Then the LORD said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.
• 11. Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
• 12. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
• 13. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.
• 14. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
• 15. "Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.
• 16. And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
• 17. "Do not make cast idols.
• 18. "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
• 19. "The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.
• 20. Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons. "No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
• 21. "Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
• 22. "Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
• 23. Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
• 24. I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.
• 25. "Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
• 26. "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
• 27. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
• 28. Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant-the Ten Commandments.
• 29. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD.
• 30. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him.
• 31. But Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he spoke to them.
• 32. Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.
• 33. When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face.
• 34. But whenever he entered the LORD's presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded,
• 35. they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.

John 14

• 1. "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
• 2. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
• 3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
• 4. You know the way to the place where I am going."
• 5. Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
• 6. Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
• 7. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
• 8. Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
• 9. Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
• 10. Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
• 11. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
• 12. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
• 13. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.
• 14. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
• 15. "If you love me, you will obey what I command.
• 16. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever--
• 17. the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
• 18. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
• 19. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
• 20. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
• 21. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
• 22. Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?"
• 23. Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
• 24. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
• 25. "All this I have spoken while still with you.
• 26. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
• 27. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
• 28. "You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
• 29. I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
• 30. I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me,
• 31. but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come now; let us leave.

Proverbs 11

• 1. The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but accurate weights are his delight.
• 2. When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
• 3. The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.
• 4. Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
• 5. The righteousness of the blameless makes a straight way for them, but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.
• 6. The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.
• 7. When a wicked man dies, his hope perishes; all he expected from his power comes to nothing.
• 8. The righteous man is rescued from trouble, and it comes on the wicked instead.
• 9. With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape.
• 10. When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
• 11. Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.
• 12. A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue.
• 13. A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret.
• 14. For lack of guidance a nation falls, but many advisers make victory sure.
• 15. He who puts up security for another will surely suffer, but whoever refuses to strike hands in pledge is safe.
• 16. A kindhearted woman gains respect, but ruthless men gain only wealth.
• 17. A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.
• 18. The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
• 19. The truly righteous man attains life, but he who pursues evil goes to his death.
• 20. The LORD detests men of perverse heart but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.
• 21. Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will go free.
• 22. Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.
• 23. The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.
• 24. One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.
• 25. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.
• 26. People curse the man who hoards grain, but blessing crowns him who is willing to sell.
• 27. He who seeks good finds goodwill, but evil comes to him who searches for it.
• 28. Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.
• 29. He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.
• 30. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
• 31. If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

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