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Exodus Chapter 26

²⁶"You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, ²⁷and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far part westward.

²⁸The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.

²⁹You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

³⁰You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

³¹"You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.

³²You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.

³³You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.

³⁴You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

³⁵You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.

³⁶"You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.

³⁷You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.

Exodus Chapter 27

¹"You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.

²You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass.

³You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.

⁴You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.

⁵You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

⁶You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.

⁷Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it.

⁸You shall make it with hollow planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

1 Kings Chapter 19

¹Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

²Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!" ³When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

⁴But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O ForeverOne, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers." ⁵He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat!" ⁶He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and laid down again.

⁷The angel of ForeverOne came again the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you." ⁸He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.

⁹He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of ForeverOne came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" ¹⁰He said, "I have been very jealous for ForeverOne, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." ¹¹He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before ForeverOne." Behold, ForeverOne passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before ForeverOne; but ForeverOne was not in the wind. After the wind an earthquake; but ForeverOne was not in the earthquake.

¹²After the earthquake a fire passed; but ForeverOne was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

¹³When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" ¹⁴He said, "I have been very jealous for ForeverOne, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." ¹⁵ForeverOne said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

¹⁶You shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and you shall anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.

¹⁷He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

¹⁸Yet will I leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him." ¹⁹So he left there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke [of oxen] before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah passed over to him, and put his mantle on him.

²⁰He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." He said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?" ²¹He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

Nehemiah Chapter 11

¹⁵Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; ¹⁶and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God; ¹⁷and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

¹⁸All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.

¹⁹Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.

²⁰The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.

²¹But the Nethinim lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.

²²The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of the house of God.

²³For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.

²⁴Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.

²⁵As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, and in Dibon and its towns, and in Jekabzeel and its villages, ²⁶and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth Pelet, ²⁷and in Hazar Shual, and in Beersheba and its towns, ²⁸and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in its towns, ²⁹and in En Rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth, ³⁰Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.

³¹The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns, ³²at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, ³³Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, ³⁴Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, ³⁵Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

³⁶Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah [were joined] to Benjamin.

John Chapter 3

²²After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.

²³John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized; ²⁴for John was not yet thrown into prison.

²⁵So a dispute arose on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.

²⁶They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him." ²⁷John answered, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the AnointedOne,' but, 'I have been sent before him.' ²⁹He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So this, my joy, is made full.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

³²What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

³³He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

³⁴For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

³⁵The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

³⁶One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

John Chapter 4