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16 “You shall keep the month of Abib. And you shall celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God. For in the month of Abib, the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
2 “You shall therefore offer the Passover to the LORD your God, of sheep and bullocks, in the place where the LORD shall choose to cause His Name to dwell.
3 “You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it (the Bread of Tribulation, for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt, all the days of your life.
4 “And there shall be no leaven seen with you on all your coasts for seven days. Nor shall there remain until the morning any of the flesh which you offered the first day at evening.
5 “You may not offer the Passover within any of the gates which the LORD your God gives you.
6 “But, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His Name, there you shall offer the Passover at evening, around the going down of the Sun, in the season that you came out of Egypt.
7 “And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, and shall return the next day and go to your tents.
8 “Six days shall you eat unleavened bread. And the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work.
9 “You shall count out seven weeks and shall begin to count the seven weeks when you begin to put the sickle to the corn.
10 “And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God, a free gift of your hand, which you shall give to the LORD your God as the LORD your God has blessed you.
11 “And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God — you and your son and your daughter and your servant and your maid and the Levite who is within your gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you — in the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place His Name.
12 “And you shall remember that you were a servant in Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe and do these Ordinances.
13 “You shall observe the Feast of the Tabernacles for seven days, after you have gathered in your corn, and your wine.
14 “And you shall rejoice in your feast — you and your son and your daughter and your servant and your maid and the Levite and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.
15 “Seven days shall you keep a feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose, when the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase and in all the works of your hands. You shall, indeed, be glad.
16 “Three times in the year shall all the males appear before the LORD your God, in the place which He shall choose: at the Feast of the Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of the Weeks and at the Feast of the Tabernacle. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty,
17 “every man according to the gift of his hand and according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.
18 “You shall make yourself judges and officers in all your cities which the LORD your God gives you, throughout the tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
19 “Do not pervert the Law or show partiality or take reward. For the reward blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the just.
20 “That which is just and right you shall follow, so that you may live and possess the land which the LORD your God gives you.
21 “You shall plant for yourself no grove of any trees near the Altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make yourself.
22 “You shall set up for yourself no pillar (which the LORD your God hates).
17 “You shall offer to the LORD your God no bullock or sheep in which is a blemish or any defect. For that is an abomination to the LORD your God.
2 “If there is found among you in any of your cities which the LORD your God gives you, man or woman who has worked wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God in transgressing His Covenant
3 “and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them (as the Sun or the Moon or any of the host of Heaven which I have not commanded)
4 “and it is told to you and you have heard it, then you shall inquire diligently. And if true, the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,
5 “then you shall bring forth to your gates that man or that woman who has committed that wicked thing (man or woman) and shall stone them with stones until they die.
6 “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he who is worthy of death die. At the mouth of one witness, he shall not die.
7 “The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him, to kill him, and then the hands of all the people. Thus you shall take the wicked away from among you.
8 “If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment between blood and blood, between plea and plea, between plague and plague, in the matter of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God shall choose.
9 “And you shall come to the priests of the Levites, and to the Judge that shall be in those days and ask. And they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
10 “And you shall do according to that thing which they of that place (which the LORD has chosen) show you. And you shall do according to all that they instruct you.
11 “According to the Law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, shall you do. You shall not turn away from the thing which they shall show you, to the right hand or the left.
12 “And that man who will do presumptuously, not obeying the priest who stands before the LORD your God (to minister there) or to the judge, that man shall die. And you shall take away evil from Israel.
13 “So all the people shall hear and fear and do no more presumptuously.
14 “When you shall come to the land which the LORD your God gives you and shall possess it and dwell in it, if thou say, ‘I will set a king over me, just as all the nations that are around me’,
15 “you shall make him king over you whom the LORD your God shall choose. From among your brothers shall you make a king over yourselves. You shall not set a stranger over yourself who is not your brother.
16 “In any case, he shall not prepare many horses for himself, nor bring the people back to Egypt to increase the number of horses, seeing the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall never go that way again’.
17 “Nor shall he take many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away. Nor shall he gather much silver and gold for himself.
18 “And when he shall sit upon the throne of his kingdom, then he shall write himself this Law, repeated in a book by the Priest of the Levites.
19 “And it shall be with him. And he shall read it all days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this Law and to do these Ordinances,
20 “so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers’ and that he does not turn to the right hand or to the left from the Commandment, so that he may prolong his days in his kingdom (he and his sons) in the midst of Israel.”
7 Now Herod the Tetrarch heard of all that had been done by Him. And he doubted, because it was said by some that John had risen again from the dead.
8 And by some that Elijah had appeared. And by some that one of the old Prophets had risen again.
9 Then Herod said, “John I have beheaded. Who then is this of Whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see Him.
10 And when the Apostles returned, they told Him what great things they had done. Then He took them and went aside into a solitary place, near the city called Bethsaida.
11 But when the people knew of it, they followed Him. And He received them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God, and healed those needing to be healed.
12 And when the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, “Send the people away, so that they may go into the surrounding towns and villages, and lodge, and get food. For we are here in a desert place.
13 But He said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.”
14 For there were about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of fifty.”
15 And they did so and made all sit down.
16 Then He took the five loaves, and the two fish, and looked up to Heaven and blessed them; and broke and gave to the disciples to set before the people.
17 So they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces from what remained.
18 And it happened that as He was alone praying, His disciples were with Him. And He asked them, saying, “Whom do the people say that I am?”
19 They answered, and said, “John Baptist. And others say, Elijah. And some say that one of the old Prophets has risen again.”
20 And He said to them, “But Whom do you say that I am?” Peter answered, and said, “The Christ of God.”
21 And He warned and commanded them to tell that to no one,
22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, and by the chief priests and scribes, and be killed; and the third day rise again.”
23 And He said to them all, “If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
24 “For whoever would save his life, shall lose it. And whoever shall lose his life, for my sake, the same shall save it.
25 "For what does it benefit a man if he wins the whole world and destroys himself, or loses himself?
26 “For whoever shall be ashamed of Me and My words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when He shall come in His own Glory, and in the Glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
27 “And I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste of death till they have seen the Kingdom of God.”
72 Give Your judgments to the King, O God, and Your righteousness to the King’s Son.
2 He shall judge Your people in righteousness, and Your poor with equity.
3 The mountains and the hills shall bring peace to the people by justice.
4 He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy and shall subdue the oppressor.
5 They shall fear You as long as the Sun and Moon endure, from generation to generation.
6 He shall come down like the rain upon the mown grass, as the showers that water the Earth.
7 In His days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace shall be so long as the Moon endures.
8 Also, His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the land.
9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before Him; and His enemies shall lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish, and of the isles, shall bring presents. The kings of Sheba, and Seba, shall bring gifts.
11 Indeed, all kings shall worship Him. All nations shall serve Him.
12 For He shall deliver the poor when He cries, the needy also, and he who has no helper.
13 He shall be merciful to the poor and needy and shall preserve the souls of the poor.
14 He shall redeem their souls from deceit and violence, and their blood shall be dear in His sight.
15 Indeed, He shall live; and to Him shall they give of the gold of Sheba. Also, they shall pray for Him continually and daily bless Him.
16 A handful of grain shall be sown in the Earth, in the top of the mountains. The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon; and the children out of the city shall flourish like the grass of the Earth.
17 His name shall be forever. His name shall endure as long as the Sun. All nations shall bless Him and be blessed in Him.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, Who only does wondrous things.
19 And blessed be His glorious Name forever. And let all the Earth be filled with His Glory. So be it, even so be it.
20 Here ends the prayers of David, the son of Jesse. A Psalm committed to Asaph
8 A man shall be commended for his wisdom. But the perverse of heart shall be despised.
9 He who is despised, and has his own servant, is better than he who boasts of himself, and lacks bread.
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