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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Divine rest. In to day's video, we will
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  Speaker 1: go over the most popular Bible stories to help you
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep. There will be no ads while you listen,
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  Speaker 1: so relax and enjoy, and as always, comment down below
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  Speaker 1: where you are from in the world and what time
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  Speaker 1: you are listening. Let's begin. We travel back to the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning of time to one of the oldest and
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  Speaker 1: most beloved stories ever told, the story of Noah and
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  Speaker 1: his Ark Genesis chapter six, when human beings began to
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  Speaker 1: increase in number on the earth and daughters were born
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  Speaker 1: to them. The sons of God saw that the daughters
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  Speaker 1: of humans were beautiful, and they married any of their natures.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said, my spirit will not contend with
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  Speaker 1: humans forever, for they are mortal. Their days will be
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  Speaker 1: a hunt dridden twenty years. The Nathelen were on the
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  Speaker 1: earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons
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  Speaker 1: of God went to the daughters of humans and had
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  Speaker 1: children by them, they were the heroes of old men
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  Speaker 1: of renown. The Lord saw how great the wickedness of
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  Speaker 1: the human race had become on the earth, and that
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  Speaker 1: every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was
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  Speaker 1: only evil. All the time. The Lord regretted that he
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  Speaker 1: had made human beings on the earth, and his heart
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  Speaker 1: was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, I will wipe
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  Speaker 1: from the face of the earth the human race I
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  Speaker 1: have created, and with them the animals, the birds, and
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  Speaker 1: the creatures that move along the ground. For I regret
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  Speaker 1: that I have made them. But Noah found favor in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of the Lord. This is the account of
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  Speaker 1: Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless
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  Speaker 1: among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully
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  Speaker 1: with God. Noah had three sons, shem Ham and Jafforth.
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  Speaker 1: Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was
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  Speaker 1: full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become,
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  Speaker 1: for all the people on the earth had corrupted their ways.
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  Speaker 1: So God said to Noah, I am going to put
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  Speaker 1: an end to all people, for the earth is filled
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  Speaker 1: with violence because of them. I am surely going to
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  Speaker 1: destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an
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  Speaker 1: ark of cypress wood, make rooms in it and coated
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  Speaker 1: with pitch inside and out. This is how you are
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  Speaker 1: to build it. The ark is to be three hundred
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  Speaker 1: cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. Make
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  Speaker 1: a roof for it, leaving below the roof and opening
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  Speaker 1: one cubit high all around. Put a door in the
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  Speaker 1: side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to bring flood waters on the earth
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  Speaker 1: to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that
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  Speaker 1: has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth
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  Speaker 1: will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you,
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  Speaker 1: and you will enter the Ark. You and your sons,
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  Speaker 1: and your wife and your son's wives with you. You
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  Speaker 1: are to bring into the ark too, of all living creatures,
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  Speaker 1: male and female, to keep them alive. With you. Two
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  Speaker 1: of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal,
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  Speaker 1: and of every kind of creature that moves along the
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  Speaker 1: ground will come to you to be kept alive. You
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  Speaker 1: are to take every kind of food that is to
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  Speaker 1: be eaten and store it away as food for you
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  Speaker 1: and for them. Noah did everything just as God commanded
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  Speaker 1: him Genesis chapter seven. The Lord then said to Noah,
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  Speaker 1: go into the Ark, you and your whole family, because
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  Speaker 1: I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with
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  Speaker 1: you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a
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  Speaker 1: male and its mate, and one pair of every kind
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  Speaker 1: of anclean animal, a male and its mate, and also
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  Speaker 1: seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female,
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  Speaker 1: to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven
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  Speaker 1: days from now, I will send rain on the earth
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  Speaker 1: for forty days and forty knights, and I will wipe
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  Speaker 1: from the face of the earth every living creature I
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  Speaker 1: have made. And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
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  Speaker 1: Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came
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  Speaker 1: on the earth, and Noah and his sons, and his
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  Speaker 1: wife and his son's wives entered the Ark to escape
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  Speaker 1: the waters of the flood. Pairs of clean and unclean animals,
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  Speaker 1: of birds, and of all the creatures that move along
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  Speaker 1: the ground male and female came to Noah and entered
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  Speaker 1: the Ark as God had commanded Noah. And after the
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  Speaker 1: seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth in the
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  Speaker 1: six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day
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  Speaker 1: of the second month. On that day, all the springs
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  Speaker 1: of the Great Deep burst forth, and the flood gates
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  Speaker 1: of the heavens were opened, and rain fell on the
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  Speaker 1: earth forty days and forty nights on that very day,
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  Speaker 1: Noah and his sons Shem and Jafforth, together with his
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  Speaker 1: wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.
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  Speaker 1: They had with them every wild animal according to its kind,
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  Speaker 1: or livestock according to their kids, every creature that moves
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  Speaker 1: along the ground according to its kind, and every bird
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  Speaker 1: according to its kind. Everything with wings, pairs of all
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  Speaker 1: creatures that have the breath of life in them came
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  Speaker 1: to Noah and entered the ark. The animals going in
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  Speaker 1: were male and female of every living thing, as God
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  Speaker 1: had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in for
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  Speaker 1: forty days. The flood kept coming on the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: as the waters increased, they lifted the ark high above
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  Speaker 1: the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
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  Speaker 1: They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high
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  Speaker 1: mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose
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  Speaker 1: and covered the mountains to a depth of more than
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  Speaker 1: fifteen cubits. Every living thing that moved on land perished, birds, livestock,
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  Speaker 1: wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the
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  Speaker 1: breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing
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  Speaker 1: on the face of the earth was wiped out. People
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  Speaker 1: and animals, and the creatures that move along the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah
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  Speaker 1: was left and those with him in the Ark. The
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  Speaker 1: waters flooded the earth for one hundred and fifty days
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter eight. But God remembered Noah and all the
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  Speaker 1: wild animals and the livestock that were with him in
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  Speaker 1: the Ark, and he sent a wind over the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep
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  Speaker 1: and the flood gates of the heavens had been closed,
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  Speaker 1: and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The
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  Speaker 1: water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifty days, the water had gone down,
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  Speaker 1: and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the
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  Speaker 1: ark came to rest on the mountains of Adarat. The
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  Speaker 1: waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on
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  Speaker 1: the first day of the tenth month, the tops of
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  Speaker 1: the mountains became visible. After forty days, Noah opened a
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  Speaker 1: window he had made in the Ark and sent out
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  Speaker 1: a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until
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  Speaker 1: the water had dried up from the earth. Then he
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  Speaker 1: sent out a dove to see if the water had
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  Speaker 1: receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove
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  Speaker 1: could find nowhere to perch because there was water over
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  Speaker 1: all the surface of the earth, so it returned to
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  Speaker 1: Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and
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  Speaker 1: took the dove and brought it back to himself in
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  Speaker 1: the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent
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  Speaker 1: out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned
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  Speaker 1: to him in the evening, there in its beak was
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  Speaker 1: a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that the
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  Speaker 1: water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more
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  Speaker 1: days and sent the bove out again, but this time
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  Speaker 1: it did not return to him. By the first day
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  Speaker 1: of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year,
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  Speaker 1: the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then
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  Speaker 1: removed the covering from the ark and saw that the
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  Speaker 1: surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty seventh
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  Speaker 1: day of the second month, the earth was completely dry.
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  Speaker 1: Then God said to Noah, come out of the ark,
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  Speaker 1: you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.
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  Speaker 1: Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you,
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  Speaker 1: the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move
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  Speaker 1: along the ground, so they can multiply on the earth
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  Speaker 1: and be fruitful and increase in number on it. So
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  Speaker 1: Noah came out together with his sons and his wife
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  Speaker 1: and his son's wives, all the animals and all the
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  Speaker 1: creatures that move along the ground, and all the birds.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that moves on land came out of the ark,
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  Speaker 1: one kind after another. Then Noah built an altar to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and taking some of all the clean animals
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  Speaker 1: and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt ufferings on it. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart,
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  Speaker 1: never again will I curse the ground because of humans,
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  Speaker 1: even though every inclination of the human heart is evil
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  Speaker 1: from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living
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  Speaker 1: creatures as I have done. As long as the earth
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  Speaker 1: endures seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter,
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  Speaker 1: gay and night will never cease Genesis chapter nine. Then
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  Speaker 1: God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them be
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  Speaker 1: fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The
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  Speaker 1: fear and dread of you will fall on all the
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  Speaker 1: beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in
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  Speaker 1: the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and on all the fish in the sea. They are
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  Speaker 1: given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves about
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  Speaker 1: will be food for you. Just as I gave you
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  Speaker 1: the green plants, I now give you everything. But you
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  Speaker 1: must not eat meat that has its life blood still
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  Speaker 1: in it. And for your life blood, I will surely
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  Speaker 1: demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal,
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  Speaker 1: and from each human being too, I will demand an
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  Speaker 1: accounting for the life of another human being. Whoever sheds
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  Speaker 1: human blood by humans, shall their blood be shed. For
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  Speaker 1: in the image of God has God made mankind as
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  Speaker 1: for you, be fruitful, and increase in number, multiply on
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  Speaker 1: the earth, and increase upon it. Then God said to
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  Speaker 1: Noah and to his sons with him, I now establish
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  Speaker 1: my government with you, and with your descendants. Are to you,
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  Speaker 1: and with every living creature that was with you, the birds,
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  Speaker 1: the live stock, and all the wild animals, all those
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  Speaker 1: that came out of the ark, with you, every living
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  Speaker 1: creature on earth, I establish my government with you. Never
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  Speaker 1: again will all life be destroyed by the waters of
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  Speaker 1: a flood. Never again will there be a flood to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the earth. And God said, this is the sign
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  Speaker 1: of the covenant I am making between me and you,
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  Speaker 1: and every living creature with you, a covenant for all
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  Speaker 1: generations to come. I have set my rainbow in the clouds,
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  Speaker 1: and it will be the sign of the covenant between
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  Speaker 1: me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the
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  Speaker 1: earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will
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  Speaker 1: remember my covenant between me and you and all living
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  Speaker 1: creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become
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  Speaker 1: a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears
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  Speaker 1: in the clouds, I will see it and remember the
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  Speaker 1: everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every
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  Speaker 1: kind on the earth. So God said to Noah, this
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  Speaker 1: is the sign of the covernment I have established between
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  Speaker 1: me and all life on the earth. The sons of
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  Speaker 1: Noah who came out of the ark were shem Ham
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  Speaker 1: and Jeffeth. Ham was the father of Canaan. These were
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  Speaker 1: the three sons of Noah, and from them came the
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  Speaker 1: people who were scattered over the whole earth. Noah, a
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  Speaker 1: man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard when
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  Speaker 1: he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and
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  Speaker 1: lay uncovered in his tent. Ham the father of Canaan,
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  Speaker 1: saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.
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  Speaker 1: But Shem and Jafforth took her garment and laid it
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  Speaker 1: across their shoulders. Then they walked in backward and covered
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  Speaker 1: their father's naked body. Their faces were turned the outer
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  Speaker 1: way so that they would not see their father naked.
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  Speaker 1: When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what
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  Speaker 1: his youngest son had done to him, he said, cursed Becaman,
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  Speaker 1: the lowest of slaves, will he be to his brothers.
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  Speaker 1: He also said, praise be to the Lord, the God
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  Speaker 1: of Shem. May Canaan be the slave of Shem. May
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  Speaker 1: God extend Jaffith's territory, made Jaffith live in the tenths
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  Speaker 1: of Shem, and make Cayman be the slave of Jeffith.
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  Speaker 1: After the flood, Noah lived three hundred and fifty years.
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  Speaker 1: No One lived a total of nine hundred and fifty years,
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  Speaker 1: and then he died. From the first Book of Samuel,
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  Speaker 1: this is the story of David and Goliath, a timeless
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  Speaker 1: tale of courage and faith in the face of overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: odds one Samuel chapter seventeen. Now the Philistines gathered their
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  Speaker 1: forces for war and assembled at Soka in Judah. They
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  Speaker 1: pitched camp that Ethe's done in between Soka and Azekah.
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  Speaker 1: Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the valley
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  Speaker 1: of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines. The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another,
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  Speaker 1: with the valley between them. A champion named Goliath, who
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  Speaker 1: was from goth came out of the Philistine camp. His
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  Speaker 1: height was six cubits and a span. He had a
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  Speaker 1: bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale,
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  Speaker 1: armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels. On his legs,
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  Speaker 1: he wore bronze grieves, and a bronze javelin was slung
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  Speaker 1: on his back. His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod,
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  Speaker 1: and its arms point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield
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  Speaker 1: bearer went ahead of him. Goliath stood and shouted to
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  Speaker 1: the ranks of Israel, why do you come out and
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  Speaker 1: line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine? And
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  Speaker 1: are you not the servants of Saul, choose a man
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  Speaker 1: and let him come down to me. If he is
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  Speaker 1: able to fight him, kill me, we will become your subjects.
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  Speaker 1: That if I overcome him and kill him, you will
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  Speaker 1: become our subjects and serve us. Then the Philistine said,
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  Speaker 1: this day I defy the armies of Israel. Give me
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  Speaker 1: a man, and let us fight each other. On hearing
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed
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  Speaker 1: and terrified. Now David was the son of an Ephrathite
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  Speaker 1: named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had
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  Speaker 1: eight sons, and in Saul's time he was very old.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse's three eldest sons had followed Saul to the war.
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  Speaker 1: The first born was a Liab, the second a Biladab,
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  Speaker 1: and the third Shunner. David was the youngest. The three
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  Speaker 1: eldest followed Saul. But David went back and forth from
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  Speaker 1: Saul to tend his father's sheep at Bethlehem for forty days.
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  Speaker 1: The Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took
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  Speaker 1: his stand. Now Jesse said to his son David, take
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  Speaker 1: this epha of roasted grain, and these ten loaves of
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  Speaker 1: bread for your brothers, and hurry to their camp. Take
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  Speaker 1: along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit.
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  Speaker 1: See how your brothers are, and bring back some assurance
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  Speaker 1: from them. They are with Saul and all the men
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  Speaker 1: of Israel in the valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.
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  Speaker 1: Early in the morning, David left the flock in the
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  Speaker 1: care of a shepherd, loaded up, and set out as
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  Speaker 1: Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the arm
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  Speaker 1: he was going out to its battle positions, shouting the
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  Speaker 1: war cry. Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their
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  Speaker 1: lines facing each other. David left his things with the
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  Speaker 1: keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked
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  Speaker 1: his brothers how they were. As he was talking with them, Forliath,
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  Speaker 1: the Philistine champion from Garth, stepped out from his lines
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  Speaker 1: and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him
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  Speaker 1: in great fear. Now the Israelites have been saying, do
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  Speaker 1: you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes
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  Speaker 1: out to defy Israel. The King will give great wealth
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  Speaker 1: to the man who kills him. He will also give
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  Speaker 1: him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family
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  Speaker 1: from taxes in Israel. David asked the men standing near him,
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  Speaker 1: what will be done for the man who kills this
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  Speaker 1: philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this
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  Speaker 1: uncircumcised philistine that he should defy the armies of the
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  Speaker 1: living God. Dave repeated to him what they had been saying,
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  Speaker 1: and told him this is what will be done for
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  Speaker 1: the man who kills him. When a liar, David's eldest brother,
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  Speaker 1: heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger
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  Speaker 1: at him and asked, why do you come down here?
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  Speaker 1: And with whom did you leave those few sheep in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness. I know how conceited you are and how
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  Speaker 1: wicked your heart is. You came down on me to
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  Speaker 1: watch the battle. Now what have I done? Said David?
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  Speaker 1: Can't I even speak? He then turned away to some
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  Speaker 1: one else and brought up the matter, and the men
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  Speaker 1: answered him as before. What David said was overheard and
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  Speaker 1: reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him. David said
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  Speaker 1: to Saul, let no one lose heart an account of
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  Speaker 1: this philistine. Your servant will go and fight him. Saul replied,
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  Speaker 1: you are not able to go out against this philistine
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  Speaker 1: and fight him. You're only a young man, and he
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  Speaker 1: has been a warrior from his youth. But David said
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  Speaker 1: to Saul, your servant has been keeping his father's sheep.
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  Speaker 1: When a lion or a bear came and carried off
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  Speaker 1: a sheep from the flog, I went after it, struck
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  Speaker 1: it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it
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  Speaker 1: turned on me, I've seized it by its hair, struck it,
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  Speaker 1: and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion
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  Speaker 1: and the bear. This uncircumcised philistine will be like one
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  Speaker 1: of them because he has defied the armies of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw
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  Speaker 1: of the lion and the paw of the bear, will
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  Speaker 1: rescue me from the hand of this philistine. Saul said
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  Speaker 1: to David, go and the Lord be with you. Then
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  Speaker 1: Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a
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  Speaker 1: coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on
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  Speaker 1: his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic
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  Speaker 1: and tried walking around because he was not used to them.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot go in these, he said to Saul, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm not used to them, so he took them off.
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  Speaker 1: Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five
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  Speaker 1: smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch
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  Speaker 1: of his shepherd's bag, and with his sling in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: approached the Philistine. Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer
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  Speaker 1: in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He
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  Speaker 1: looked David over and saw that he was little more
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  Speaker 1: than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he
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  Speaker 1: despised him. He said to David, am I a dog
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  Speaker 1: that you come at me with sticks? And the Philistine
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  Speaker 1: cursed David by his gods. Come here, he said, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals.
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  Speaker 1: David said to the Philistine, you come against me with
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  Speaker 1: sword and spear and javelin that I come against you
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  Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of
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  Speaker 1: the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: strike you down and cut off your head. This very
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  Speaker 1: day I will give the caucuses of the Philistine army
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  Speaker 1: to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole
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  Speaker 1: world will know that there is a God in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: All those gathered here will know that it is not
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  Speaker 1: by sword or spear that the Lord saves, for the
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  Speaker 1: battle is the Lord's, and he will give all of
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  Speaker 1: you into our hands. As the Philistine moved closer to
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  Speaker 1: attack him, David ran quickly towards the battle line to
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  Speaker 1: meet him, Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone,
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  Speaker 1: he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead.
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  Speaker 1: The stone sank into his forehead and he fell face
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  Speaker 1: down on the ground. So David triumphed over the Philistine
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  Speaker 1: with a sling and a stone. Without a sword in
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  Speaker 1: his hand, he struck down the Philistine and killed him.
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  Speaker 1: David ran and stood over him. He took hold of
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  Speaker 1: the Philistine's sword and drew it from the sheath. After
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  Speaker 1: he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.
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  Speaker 1: When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they
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  Speaker 1: turned and ran. Then the men of Israel and Judah
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  Speaker 1: surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to
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  Speaker 1: the entrance of goth and to the gates of their crown.
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  Speaker 1: They're dead was strewn along the Cha'araeum road to Gath
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  Speaker 1: and Erkrun. When the Israelites returned from chasing the philistlines.
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  Speaker 1: They plundered their camp. David took the Philistine's head and
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  Speaker 1: brought it to Jerusalem. He put the Philistine's weapons in
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  Speaker 1: his own tent. As Saul watched David going out to
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  Speaker 1: meet the Philistine, he said to Abna, commander of the army, Abnah,
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  Speaker 1: whose son is that young man? Abna replied, as surely
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  Speaker 1: as you live, your majesty, I don't know. The king said,
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  Speaker 1: find art whose sun this young man is. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him
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  Speaker 1: and brought him before Saul, with David still holding the
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  Speaker 1: Philistine's head. From the Book of Jonah, this is the
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  Speaker 1: story of a man swallowed by a great whale, a
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  Speaker 1: timeless tale of second chances and the unstoppable grace of God.
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  Speaker 1: The Book of Jonah Jonah, chapter one. The word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord came to Jonah, son of a Mitai, go
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  Speaker 1: to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it,
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  Speaker 1: because its wickedness has come up before me. But Jonah
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  Speaker 1: ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He
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  Speaker 1: went out a Joppa, where he found a ship bound
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  Speaker 1: for that port. After paying the fair. He went aboard
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  Speaker 1: and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and
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  Speaker 1: such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to
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  Speaker 1: break up. All the sailors were afraid, and each cried
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  Speaker 1: out to his own god, and they threw the cargo
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  Speaker 1: into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had
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  Speaker 1: gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into
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  Speaker 1: a deep sleep. The captain went to him and said,
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  Speaker 1: how can you sleep? Get up and call on your guard.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he will take notice of us so that we
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  Speaker 1: will not perish. Then the sailors said to each other, come,
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  Speaker 1: let us cast lots to find out who is responsible
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  Speaker 1: for this calamity. They cast lots, and the lot fell
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  Speaker 1: on Jomer. So they asked him, tell us who is
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  Speaker 1: responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of work do you do? Where do you come from,
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  Speaker 1: What is your country? From what people are you? He answered,
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  Speaker 1: I am a Hebrew, and I worshiped the Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
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  Speaker 1: This terrified them, and they asked, what have you done.
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  Speaker 1: They knew he was running away away from the Lord
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  Speaker 1: because he had already told them. So. The sea was
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  Speaker 1: getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, what should
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  Speaker 1: we do to you to make the sea calm down
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  Speaker 1: for us, Pick me up and throw me into the sea,
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  Speaker 1: he replied, and it will become calm. I know that
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  Speaker 1: it is my fault that this great storm has come
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  Speaker 1: upon you. Instead, the men did their best to row
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  Speaker 1: back to land, but they could not, for the sea
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  Speaker 1: grew even wilder than before. Then they cried out to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Please, Lord, do not let us die for
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  Speaker 1: taking this man's life. Do not hold us accountable for
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  Speaker 1: killing an innocent man. For you, Lord, have done as
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  Speaker 1: you pleased. Then they took Joma and threw him overboard,
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  Speaker 1: and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men
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  Speaker 1: greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord and made vows to him. Now, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was
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  Speaker 1: in the belly of the fish three days and three
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  Speaker 1: nights Jonah Chapter two. From inside the fish, Jonah prayed
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord, his God. He said, in my distress,
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  Speaker 1: I called to the Lord, and he answered me. From
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  Speaker 1: deep in the realm, of the dead. I called for help,
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  Speaker 1: and you listened to my cry. You hurled me into
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  Speaker 1: the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and
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  Speaker 1: the coulants swirled about me. All your waves and breakers
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  Speaker 1: swept over me. I said, I have been banished from
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  Speaker 1: your sight. Yet I will look again towards your holy temple.
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  Speaker 1: The engulfing waters threatened me, the deeps around mid me,
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  Speaker 1: seaweed was wrapped around my head. To the roots of
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  Speaker 1: the mountains, I sank down. The earth beneath barred me
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  Speaker 1: in the forever. But you, Lord, my God, brought my
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  Speaker 1: life up from the kit When my life was ebbing away,
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  Speaker 1: I remembered you, Lord, and my prayer rose to you,
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  Speaker 1: to your holy temper. Those who claim to worthless idols
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  Speaker 1: turn away from God's love for them. But I, with
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  Speaker 1: shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you what I
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  Speaker 1: have vowed. I will make good. I will say, salvation
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  Speaker 1: comes from the Lord. And the Lord commanded the fish,
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  Speaker 1: and it vomited Jermah on to dry Landyonah chapter three.
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  Speaker 1: Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a
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  Speaker 1: second time. Go to the great city of Neneveh and
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  Speaker 1: proclaim to it the message I give you. Jonah obeyed
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now
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  Speaker 1: Nineveh was a very large city. It took three days
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  Speaker 1: to go through it. Jonah began by going a day's
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  Speaker 1: journey into the city, proclaiming, forty more days and Nineveh
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  Speaker 1: will be overthrown. The Ninevites believed God. The fast was proclaimed,
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  Speaker 1: and all of them, from the greatest to the least
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  Speaker 1: put on sacloth. When Jonah's warning reached the King of Nineveh,
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  Speaker 1: he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes,
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  Speaker 1: covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in the dust.
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  Speaker 1: This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh. By the
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  Speaker 1: decree of the king and his nobles. Do not let
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  Speaker 1: people or animals, herds or flocks taste anything. Do not
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  Speaker 1: let them eat or drink, But let people and animals
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  Speaker 1: be covered with sackcloth. Let every one call urgenty on
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  Speaker 1: a God. Let them give up their evil ways and
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  Speaker 1: their violence. Who knows God may yet relent and with
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  Speaker 1: compassion turn from his fierce anger, so that we will
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  Speaker 1: not perish. When God saw what they did and how
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  Speaker 1: they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did
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  Speaker 1: not bring on them the destruction he had threatened Jonah
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  Speaker 1: Chapter four. But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and
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  Speaker 1: he became angry. He prayed to the Lord. Isn't this
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  Speaker 1: what I said, Lord, when I was still at home.
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  Speaker 1: That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish.
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  Speaker 1: I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God,
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  Speaker 1: slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who
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  Speaker 1: relents from sending calamity. Now, Lord, take away my life,
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  Speaker 1: for it is better for me to die than to live.
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  Speaker 1: But the Lord replied, is it right for you to
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  Speaker 1: be angry? Jonah had gone out and sat down at
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  Speaker 1: a place east of the city. There he made himself
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  Speaker 1: a shelter, sat in its shade, and waited to see
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  Speaker 1: what would happen to the city. Then the Lord God
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  Speaker 1: provided the leafy plant and made it grow up over
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  Speaker 1: Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort.
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  Speaker 1: And Jonah was very happy about the plant. But at
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  Speaker 1: dawn the next day, God provided a worm which chewed
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  Speaker 1: the plant so that he withered. When the sun rose,
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  Speaker 1: God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun glazed
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  Speaker 1: on Jonah's head so that he grew faint. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to die and said it would be better for me
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  Speaker 1: to die than to live. But God said to Jomah,
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  Speaker 1: is it right for you to be angry about the plant?
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  Speaker 1: It is? He said, And I'm so angry I wish
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  Speaker 1: I were dead. But the Lord said, you have been
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  Speaker 1: concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it
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  Speaker 1: or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight.
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  Speaker 1: And should I not have concer for the great city
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  Speaker 1: of Ninevah, in which there are more than one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand
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  Speaker 1: from their left, and also many animals. From the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Exodus, this is the story of Moses, a tale
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  Speaker 1: of burning bushes, mighty plagues, and a sea that parted
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  Speaker 1: to let God's people. Through the Book of Exodus, Exodus
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  Speaker 1: chapter one. These are the names of the sons of
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  Speaker 1: Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his
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  Speaker 1: family Reuben, Simeon Levi, and Judah, Issaca, Zebulun and Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Dan and Laftali, Gad and Asha. The descendants of Jacob
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  Speaker 1: numbered seventy in all. Joseph was al ready in Egypt
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  Speaker 1: now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.
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  Speaker 1: But the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful. They multiplied greatly, increased
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  Speaker 1: in numbers, and became so numerous that the land was
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  Speaker 1: filled with them. Then a new king, to whom Joseph
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  Speaker 1: meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. Look, he said
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  Speaker 1: to his people, the Israelites have become far too numerous
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  Speaker 1: for us. Come. We must deal shrewdly with them, or
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  Speaker 1: they will become even more numerous, and if war breaks out,
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  Speaker 1: will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.
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  Speaker 1: So they put slave masters over them to oppress them
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  Speaker 1: with forced labor, and they built Python and Rameses as
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  Speaker 1: store cities for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed,
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  Speaker 1: the more they multiplied and spread. So the Egyptians came
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  Speaker 1: to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly. They made
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  Speaker 1: their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar,
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  Speaker 1: and with all kinds of work in the fields. In
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  Speaker 1: all their harsh labor, the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly. The
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  Speaker 1: king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names
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  Speaker 1: were Schiffrah and Puah, when you are helping the Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: women during childbirth on the delivery stool. If you see
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  Speaker 1: that the baby is a boy, kill him. But if
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  Speaker 1: it is a girl, let her live. The midwives, however,
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  Speaker 1: feared God and did not do what the King of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt had told them to do. They let the boys live.
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  Speaker 1: Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them,
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  Speaker 1: why have you done this? Why have you let the
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  Speaker 1: boys live. The midwives answered Pharaoh, Hebrew women are not
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  Speaker 1: like Egyptian women. They are vigorous and give birth before
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  Speaker 1: the midwives arrived. So God was kind to the midwives,
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  Speaker 1: and the people increased and became even more numerous. And
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  Speaker 1: because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of
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  Speaker 1: their own. Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people.
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  Speaker 1: Every Hebrew boy that is born, you must throw into
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  Speaker 1: the nile, but let every girl live. Exodus chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a
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  Speaker 1: Levi woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to
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  Speaker 1: a son. When she saw that he was a fine child,
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  Speaker 1: she hid him for three months. But when she could
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  Speaker 1: hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for
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  Speaker 1: him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she
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  Speaker 1: placed the child in it and put it among the
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  Speaker 1: reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood
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  Speaker 1: at a distance to see what would happen to him.
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  Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe,
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  Speaker 1: and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She
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  Speaker 1: saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female
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  Speaker 1: slaves to get it. She opened it and saw the baby.
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  Speaker 1: He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. This
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  Speaker 1: is one of the Hebrew babies, she said. Then his
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  Speaker 1: sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and get one
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  Speaker 1: of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you? Yes, go,
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  Speaker 1: she answered. So the girl went and got the baby's mother.
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter said to her, take this baby and nurse
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  Speaker 1: him for me, and I will pay you. So the
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  Speaker 1: woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child
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  Speaker 1: grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he
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  Speaker 1: became her son. She named him Moses, saying I drew
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  Speaker 1: him out of the water. One day, after Moses had
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  Speaker 1: grown up, he went out to where his own people
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  Speaker 1: were and watched them at their hard labor he saw
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  Speaker 1: an Egyptian beating a Hebrew one of his own people.
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  Speaker 1: Looking this way and that, and seeing no one, he
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  Speaker 1: killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. The
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  Speaker 1: next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting.
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  Speaker 1: He asked the one in the wrong, why are you
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  Speaker 1: hitting your fellow Hebrew? The man said, who made you
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  Speaker 1: ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing
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  Speaker 1: me as you killed the Egyptian. Then Moses was afraid
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  Speaker 1: and thought what I did must have become known. When
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but
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  Speaker 1: Moses fled from Pharaoh went to live in Midian, where
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  Speaker 1: he sat down by a well. Now, a priest of
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  Speaker 1: Midian had se them daughters, and they came to draw
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  Speaker 1: water and filled the truffs to water their father's flock.
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  Speaker 1: Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses
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  Speaker 1: got got up and came to their rescue and watered
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  Speaker 1: their flock. When the girls returned to ruel their father,
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  Speaker 1: he asked them, why have you returned so early today?
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  Speaker 1: They answered, An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He
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  Speaker 1: even drew water for us and watered the flock, and
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  Speaker 1: where is he? Ruel asked his daughters, why did you
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  Speaker 1: leave him? Invite him to have something to eat. Moses
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  Speaker 1: agreed to stay with the man who gave his daughter
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  Speaker 1: Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son,
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  Speaker 1: and Moses named him Gershon, saying, I have become a
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  Speaker 1: foreigner in a foreign land. During that long period, the
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  Speaker 1: king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery
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  Speaker 1: and cried out, and their cry for help because of
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: their slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning,
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  Speaker 1: and he remembered his covenant with a Graham, with Isaac
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  Speaker 1: and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and
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  Speaker 1: was concerned about them. Exodus chapter three. Now Moses was
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  Speaker 1: tending the flock of Jethro, his father in law, the
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  Speaker 1: priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the
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  Speaker 1: far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the
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  Speaker 1: mountain of God. There, the Angel of the Lord appeared
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  Speaker 1: to him in flames of fire from within a bush.
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  Speaker 1: Moses saw that though the bush was on fire, it
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  Speaker 1: did not burn out. So Moses thought, I will go
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  Speaker 1: over and see this strange sight. Why the bush does
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  Speaker 1: not burn out. When the Lord saw that he had
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  Speaker 1: gone over to look, God called to him from within
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  Speaker 1: the bush Moses Moses, and Moses said here I am,
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  Speaker 1: do not come any closer. God said, take off your sandals,
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  Speaker 1: for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
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  Speaker 1: Then he said, I am the God of your father,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
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  Speaker 1: God of Jacob. At this Moses hid his face because
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  Speaker 1: he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: I have indeed seen the misery of my people immediate.
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  Speaker 1: I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers,
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  Speaker 1: and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have
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  Speaker 1: come down to rescue them from the hand of the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land
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  Speaker 1: into a good and spacious lamb, a land flowing with
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  Speaker 1: milk and honey, the home of the Canaanites, Ittites, Amorites, Perizites, Hivites,
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  Speaker 1: and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has
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  Speaker 1: reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians
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  Speaker 1: are oppressing them. So now go, I am sending you
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  Speaker 1: to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: But Moses said to God, who am I? That I
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  Speaker 1: should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?
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  Speaker 1: And God said, I will be with you, and this
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  Speaker 1: will be the sign to you that it is I
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  Speaker 1: who have sent you. When you have brought the people
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  Speaker 1: out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Moses said to God, Suppose I go to the Israelites
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  Speaker 1: and say to them that God of your fathers has
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  Speaker 1: sent me to you, and they ask me what is
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  Speaker 1: his name? Then what shall I tell them? God said
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  Speaker 1: to Moses, I am who I am. This is what
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: you are to say to the Israelites. I AM has
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  Speaker 1: sent me to you. God also said to Moses, say
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  Speaker 1: to the Israelites, the Lord, the God of your fathers,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
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  Speaker 1: God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is
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  Speaker 1: my name for ever the name you shall call me
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  Speaker 1: from generation to generation. Go assemble the elders of Israel
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  Speaker 1: and say to them, the Lord, the God of your fathers,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob appeared to me
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  Speaker 1: and said, I have watched over you and have seen
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  Speaker 1: what has been done to you in Egypt, and I
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  Speaker 1: have promised to bring you up out of your misery
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Ithites, Amorites, Perizites,
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  Speaker 1: hithit Sem to Chepusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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  Speaker 1: The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you
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  Speaker 1: and the elders are to go to the King of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt and say to him, the Lord, the God of
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a
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  Speaker 1: three day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, our God. But I know that the King
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty
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  Speaker 1: hand compels him. So I will stretch out my hand
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  Speaker 1: and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I
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  Speaker 1: will perform among them. After that you will let you go,
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  Speaker 1: and I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed towards his people,
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  Speaker 1: so that when you leave, you will not go empty handed.
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  Speaker 1: Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman
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  Speaker 1: living in her house, the articles of silver and gold,
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  Speaker 1: and for clothing which you will put on your sons
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  Speaker 1: and daughters. And so you will punder the Egyptians Exodus
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  Speaker 1: chapter four. Moses answered, what if they do not believe me,
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  Speaker 1: or listen to me and say the Lord did not
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  Speaker 1: appear to you. Then the Lord said to him, what
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  Speaker 1: is that in your hand? But staff? He replied. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord said, throw it on the ground. Moses threw it
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, and it became a snake, and he
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  Speaker 1: ran from it. Then the Lord said to him, reach
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  Speaker 1: out your hand and take it by the tale. So
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  Speaker 1: Moses reached out and took hold of the snake, and
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  Speaker 1: it turned back into a staff in his hand. This,
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  Speaker 1: said the Lord, is so that they may believe that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, as
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  Speaker 1: appeared to you. Then the Lord said, put your hand
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  Speaker 1: inside your cloak. So Moses put his hand into his cloak,
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  Speaker 1: and when he took it out, the skin was leprous.
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  Speaker 1: It had become as white as snow. Now put it
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  Speaker 1: back into your cloak, he said. So Moses put his
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  Speaker 1: hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out,
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  Speaker 1: it was restored like the rest of his flesh. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Lord said, if they do not believe you, or
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second.
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  Speaker 1: But if they do not believe these two signs or
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  Speaker 1: listen to you, take some water from the nile and
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  Speaker 1: pour it on the dry ground. The water you take
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  Speaker 1: from the river will become blunt on the ground. Moses
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  Speaker 1: said to the Lord, pardon your servant. Lord, I have
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  Speaker 1: never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you
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  Speaker 1: have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech
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  Speaker 1: and tongue. The Lord said to him who gave human
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  Speaker 1: beings their mouths? Who makes them deathfor mute? Who gives
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  Speaker 1: them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I?
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  Speaker 1: The Lord? Now go, I will help you speak and
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  Speaker 1: will teach you what to say. But Moses said, pardon
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  Speaker 1: your servant, Lord, Please send some one else. Then the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's anger burned against Moses, and he said, what about
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  Speaker 1: your brother eeron the Levite. I know he can speak well.
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  Speaker 1: He is already on his way to meet you, and
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  Speaker 1: he will be glad to see you. You shall speak
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  Speaker 1: to him and put words in his mouth. I will
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  Speaker 1: help both of you speak and will teach you what
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  Speaker 1: to do. He will speak to the people for you,
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  Speaker 1: and it will be as if he were your mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and as if you were God to him. But take
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  Speaker 1: this stuff in your hand so that you can perform
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  Speaker 1: the signs with it. Then Moses went back to Jethro,
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  Speaker 1: his father in law, and said to him, let me
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  Speaker 1: return to my own people in Egypt to see if
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  Speaker 1: any of them are still alive. Jethro said, go, and
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  Speaker 1: I wish you well. Now the Lord had said to
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  Speaker 1: Moses in Midian, go back to Egypt, for all those
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  Speaker 1: who wanted to kill you are dead. So Moses took
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  Speaker 1: his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and
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  Speaker 1: started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of
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  Speaker 1: God in his hand. The Lord said to Moses, when
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: you returned to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: all the wonders I have given you the power to do.
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  Speaker 1: But I will harden his heart so that he will
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  Speaker 1: not let the people go. Then say to Pharaoh, this
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  Speaker 1: is what the Lord says. Israel is my firstborn son,
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  Speaker 1: and I told you let my son go so that
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  Speaker 1: he may worship me. But you refuse to let him go.
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  Speaker 1: So I will kill your firstborn son. At a lodging
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  Speaker 1: place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was
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  Speaker 1: about to kill him, but Ziborah took a flint knife,
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  Speaker 1: cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it. Surely,
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  Speaker 1: you are a bridegroom of blood to me, she said,
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  Speaker 1: So the Lord let him alone. At that time, she said,
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  Speaker 1: bridegroom of blood, referring to circumcision. The Lord said to Eron,
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  Speaker 1: go into the wilderness to meet Moses. So he met
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  Speaker 1: Moses at the Mountain of God and kissed him. Then
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  Speaker 1: Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say,
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  Speaker 1: and also about all the signs he had commanded him
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  Speaker 1: to perform. Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders
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  Speaker 1: of the Israelites, and Aeron told them everything the Lord
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  Speaker 1: had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before
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  Speaker 1: the people, and they believed. And when they heard that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery,
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  Speaker 1: they bowed down and worshiped. Exodus chapter five. Afterwards, Moses
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, this is what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, the God of Israel, says. Let my people
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  Speaker 1: go so that they may hold a festival to me
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness. Pharaoh said, who is the Lord that
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  Speaker 1: I should obey him and let Israel go. I do
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  Speaker 1: not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.
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  Speaker 1: Then they said, the God of the Hebrews has met
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  Speaker 1: with us. Now let us take a three day journey
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  Speaker 1: into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord, our god,
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  Speaker 1: or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.
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  Speaker 1: But the King of Egypt said, Moses and Aaron, why
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  Speaker 1: are you taking the people away from their labour. Get
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  Speaker 1: back to your work. Then Pharaoh said, look, the people
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  Speaker 1: of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping
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  Speaker 1: them from working. That same day, Pharaoh gave this order
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  Speaker 1: to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people.
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  Speaker 1: You are no longer to supply the people with straw
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  Speaker 1: for making bricks. Let them go and gather their own straw,
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  Speaker 1: but require them to make the same number of bricks
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  Speaker 1: as before. Don't reduce the quota. They're lazy, that is
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  Speaker 1: why they're crying out. Let us go and sacrifice to
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  Speaker 1: our God. Make the work harder for the people so
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  Speaker 1: that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.
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  Speaker 1: Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and
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  Speaker 1: said to the people this is what Pharaoh says. I
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  Speaker 1: will not give you any more straw. Go and get
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  Speaker 1: your own straw wherever you can find it, but your
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  Speaker 1: work will not be reduced at all. So the people
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  Speaker 1: scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.
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  Speaker 1: The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, complete the work
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  Speaker 1: required of you for each day, just as when you
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  Speaker 1: had straw. A Pharaoh's slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers
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  Speaker 1: they had appointed, demanding, why haven't you met your quota
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  Speaker 1: of bricks yesterday or to day as before? Then? The
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  Speaker 1: Israelite overseers went in appeal to Pharaoh, why have you
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  Speaker 1: treated your servants this way? Your servants are given no straw,
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  Speaker 1: yet we are told make bricks. Your servants are being beaten,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: But the fault is with your own people. Pharaoh said, lazy,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you are. Lazy. That is why you keep saying.
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  Speaker 1: Let us go and sacrifice to the lord. Now get
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  Speaker 1: to work. You will not be given any straw, yet
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  Speaker 1: you must produce your full quota of bricks. The Israelite
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  Speaker 1: overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told,
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  Speaker 1: you are not to reduce the number of bricks required
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  Speaker 1: of you for each day. When they left Pharaoh, they
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  Speaker 1: found Moses a heeron waiting to meet them, and they said,
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  Speaker 1: may the Lord look on you and judge you. You
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  Speaker 1: have made us obnoxious to Pharaoh and his officials, and
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  Speaker 1: have put a sword in their hand to kill us.
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  Speaker 1: Moses returned to the Lord and said, why, Lord, why
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  Speaker 1: have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why
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  Speaker 1: you sent me? Ever since I went to Pharaoh to
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people,
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  Speaker 1: and you have not rescued your people at all. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: chapter six. Then the Lord said to Moses, now you
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  Speaker 1: will see what I will do to Pharaoh. Because of
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: my mighty hand, he will let them go. Because of
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: my mighty hand, he will drive them out of his country.
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  Speaker 1: God also said to Moses, I am the Lord. I
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  Speaker 1: appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: But by my name the Lord, I did not make
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  Speaker 1: myself known to them. I also established my covenant with
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  Speaker 1: them to give them the land of Canaan, where they
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: resided as foreigners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: remembered my government. Therefore, say to the Israelites, I am
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and I will bring you out from under
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from
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  Speaker 1: the enslaves to them. I will redeem you with an
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: outstretched arm, and with my mighty acts of judgment. I
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  Speaker 1: will take you as my own people, and I will
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: be your God. Then you will know that I am
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, your God, who has brought you out from
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  Speaker 1: under the yoke of the Egyptians, and I will bring
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: you to the land. I swar with uplifted hat to
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  Speaker 1: give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will
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  Speaker 1: give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not
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  Speaker 1: listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Moses, go tell Pharaoh, King
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt, to let the Israelites go out of his country.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: But Moses said to the Lord, if the Israelites will
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  Speaker 1: not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me?
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  Speaker 1: Since I speak with faltering lips. Now the Lord spoke
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: to Moses and heir about the Israelites and Pharaoh king
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: out of Egypt. These were the heads of their families.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of Reuben, the first born of Israel, were
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Hannok and Palu, Hesrn and Kamai. These were the clowns
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  Speaker 1: of Reuben. The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Bohad, Jakin, Zohar,
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  Speaker 1: and Shejul, the son of a Kaimanite woman. These were
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  Speaker 1: the clans of Simeon. These were the names of the
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  Speaker 1: sons of Levi. According to their records, Gershon, Kohath and
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  Speaker 1: malray Rai. Levi lived one hundred and thirty seven years.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of Gershon by clans were Libnai and Shimiai.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of Kohath were Amram, Ishra, Kibron and Aziel.
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  Speaker 1: Kohath lived one hundred and thirty three years. The sons
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  Speaker 1: of Merairai were Marlai and Myoshai. These were the clowns
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  Speaker 1: of Levi. According to their records, Amram married his father's sister, Jakobird,
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  Speaker 1: who bore him Aerona Moses. Amram lived one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven years. The sons of Isa were Corah, Neipheg,
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  Speaker 1: and Zikrai. The sons of Azio were Micheo, Ezefhan and Sthrai.
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  Speaker 1: Aeron married Elisheba, daughter of Aminabah and sister of Nashon,
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  Speaker 1: and she bore him Nadab and Abaihu Eliezer and Ithamar.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of Krah were Asa, Elkena and Abayasaf. These
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: were the Kohorite kans. Eliezer, son of Aero, married one
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  Speaker 1: of the daughters of Piutio, and she bore him Phinias.
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  Speaker 1: These were the heads of the Levite families, clam by clan.
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  Speaker 1: It was this Eeron and Moses, to whom the Lord
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  Speaker 1: had said bring the Israelites out of Egypt. By their divisions,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: they were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh, King of Egypt,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt. This same Moses
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: and Hera. Now, when the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: he said to him, I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh,
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: King of Egypt, everything I tell you. But Moses said
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: to the Lord, since I speak with faltering lips, why
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: would Pharaoh listen to me? Exodus chapter seven Then the
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, see, I have made you like
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  Speaker 1: God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
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  Speaker 1: You are to say everything I command you, and your
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: go out of his country. But I will harden Pharaoh's heart.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: And though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: he will not listen to you. Then I will lay
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: my hand on Egypt, and with mighty acts of judgment,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: I will bring out my divisions. My people, the Israelites
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: the Israelites out of it. Moses and Aaron did just
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: as the Lord commanded them. Moses was eighty years old
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: and Aeron eighty three. When they spoke to Pharaoh. The
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses and Aaron, when Pharaoh says to
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: you the former miracle, then say to Eron, take your
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: become a snake. So Moses Snairog went to Pharaoh and
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: did just as the Lord commanded. Eron threw his staff
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: became a snake. Pharaoh then summoned the wise men and sorcerers,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: their secret arts. Each one threw down his staff, and
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  Speaker 1: it became a snake. But Eron's staff swallowed up their staffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard, and he would not listen
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: to them. Just as the Lord had said. Then the
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is unyielding. He refuses
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  Speaker 1: to let the people go. Go to Pharaoh in the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: morning as he goes out to the river, confront him
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  Speaker 1: on the bank of the Nile, and taking your hand
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  Speaker 1: the staff that was changed into a snake. Then say
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: to him, the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: sent me to say to you, let my people go,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: until now you have not listened. This is what the
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: Lord says. I this you will know that I a
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: the Lord. With this staff that is in my hand,
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  Speaker 1: I will strike the water of the Nile, and it
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will
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  Speaker 1: not be able to drink its water. The Lord said
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  Speaker 1: to Moses, tell eron, take your staff and stretch out
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  Speaker 1: your hand over the waters of Egypt, over the streams
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs, and
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: they will turn to blood. Blood will be everywhere in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: even in vessels of wood and stone. Moses and Aaron
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: gave just as the Lord had commanded. He raised his
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: struck the water of the Nile, and all the water
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: was changed into blood. The fish in the Nile died,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: not drink its water, for lad was everywhere in Egypt.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: secret hearts, and Pharaoh's heart became hard. He would not
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said. Instead,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: he turned and went into his palace and did not
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  Speaker 1: take even this to heart. And all the Egyptians dug
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: along the Nile to get drinking water because they could
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: not drink the water of the river. Seven days passed
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: after the Lord struck the Nile. Exodus up to eight
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Moses, go to Pharaoh and
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: say to him, this is what the Lord says. Let
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: my people go so that they may worship me. If
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: you refuse to let them go, I will send a
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: plague of frogs on your whole country. The Nile will
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: and your bedroom, and onto your bed, into the houses
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: of your officials, and on your people, and into your
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: ovens and meeting trucks. The frogs will come up on
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: you and your people and all your officials. Then the
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, tell Eron, stretch out your hand
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: So Eron stretched out his hand over the world waters
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: But the magicians did the same things. By their secret ats,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, pray to the
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Lord to take the frogs away from thee and my people,
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  Speaker 1: and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: to the Lord. Moses said to Pharaoh, I leave to
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: you the honor of setting the time for me to
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: pray for you and your officials and your people, that
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: you and your houses may be rid of the frogs,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: except for those that remain in the Nile tomorrow, Pharoh said.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: Moses replied, it will be as you say, so that
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: you may know there is no one like the Lord,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: our God. The frogs will leave you and your houses,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: your officials, and your people. They will remain only in
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: the Nile. After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses cried
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: out to the Lord about the frogs he had brought
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: on Pharaoh, and the Lord did what Moses asked. The
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  Speaker 1: frogs died in the houses, in the courtyards, and in
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  Speaker 1: the fields. They were piled into heaps, and the land
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  Speaker 1: reeked of them. But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief,
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  Speaker 1: he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses
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  Speaker 1: and Baron. Just as the Lord had said. Then, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, tower Eron, stretch out gustar and
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  Speaker 1: strike the dust of the ground, and throughout the land
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt the dust will become gnats. They did this,
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  Speaker 1: and when Aaron stretched out his hat with the staff
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  Speaker 1: and struck the dust of the ground. Gnats came on
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  Speaker 1: people and animals. All the dust throughout the land of
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  Speaker 1: Egypt became gnats. But when the magicians tried to produce
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  Speaker 1: gnats by their secrets, they could not, since the nats
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  Speaker 1: were on people and animals everywhere. The magician said to Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: this is the finger of God. That Pharaoh's heart was
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  Speaker 1: hard and he would not listen. Just as the Lord
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  Speaker 1: had said. Then the Lord said to Moses, get up
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes
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  Speaker 1: to the river, and say to him, this is what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord says. Let my people go so that they
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  Speaker 1: may worship me. If you do not let my people go,
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  Speaker 1: I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials,
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  Speaker 1: on your people, and into your houses. The houses of
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians will be full of flies. Even the ground
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  Speaker 1: will be covered with them. But on that day I
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  Speaker 1: will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my
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  Speaker 1: people live. No swarms of flies will be there, so
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  Speaker 1: that you will know that I, the Lord am in
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  Speaker 1: this land. I will make a distinction between my people
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  Speaker 1: and your people. This sign will occur to morrow, and
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  Speaker 1: the Lord did this, dense swarms of flies poured into
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's palace and into the houses of his officials throughout Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: The land was ruined by the fliers. Then Pharaoh summoned
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  Speaker 1: Moses and Aeron and said, go sacrifice to your God
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  Speaker 1: here in the land. But Moses said that would not
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  Speaker 1: be right. The sacrifices we offer the Lord our God
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  Speaker 1: would be detestable to the Egyptians. And if we offer
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  Speaker 1: sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not
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  Speaker 1: stone us. We must take a three day journey into
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord, our God,
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  Speaker 1: as he commands us. Pharaoh said, I will let you
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  Speaker 1: go to our sacrifices to the Lord your guard at
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now,
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  Speaker 1: pray for me. Moses answered, as soon as I leave you,
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  Speaker 1: I will pray to the Lord, and to morrow the
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  Speaker 1: flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people.
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  Speaker 1: Only let Pharaoh be sure that he does not act
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  Speaker 1: deceitfully again by not letting the people go to other
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  Speaker 1: sacrifices to the Lord. Then Moses left Pharaoh and pray
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord, and the Lord did what Moses asked.
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  Speaker 1: The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people
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  Speaker 1: not to fly remained. But this time also Pharaoh hardened
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  Speaker 1: his heart and would not let the people go. Exodus
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  Speaker 1: chapter nine. Then the Lord said to Moses, go to
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh and say, ten, this is what the Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: God of the Hebrews says. Let my people go, so
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  Speaker 1: that they may worship me. If you refuse to let
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  Speaker 1: them go and continue to hold them back, the hand
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: of the Lord will bring a terrible plague on your
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: live stock in the field, on your horses, donkeys, and camels,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: and on your cattle, sheep and goats. The Lord will
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  Speaker 1: make a distinction between the live stock of Israel and
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  Speaker 1: that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the
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  Speaker 1: Israelites will die. The Lord set a time and said
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  Speaker 1: to morrow the Lord will do this in the land.
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  Speaker 1: And the next day the Lord did it. All the
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  Speaker 1: live stock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal
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  Speaker 1: belonging to the Israelites died. Pharaoh investigated and found that
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  Speaker 1: not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died.
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  Speaker 1: Yet his heart was unyielding, and he would not let
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  Speaker 1: the people go. Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
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  Speaker 1: take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and let Moses
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  Speaker 1: toss it him to the air in the presence of Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: and festering boils will break out on people and animals
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  Speaker 1: throughout the land. So they took soot from a furnace
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  Speaker 1: and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air,
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  Speaker 1: and festering boils broke out on people and animals. The
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  Speaker 1: magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boyles
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  Speaker 1: that were on them and on all the Egyptians. But
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not listen
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  Speaker 1: to Moses neeron. Just as the Lord had said to Moses.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Moses, get up early in
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: the morn him confront Pharaoh and say to him, this
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  Speaker 1: is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews say.
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  Speaker 1: Let my people go so that they may worship me.
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  Speaker 1: For this time I will send the full force of
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  Speaker 1: my plagues against you and against your officials and your people,
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  Speaker 1: so you may know that there is no one like
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  Speaker 1: me in all the earth. For by Now, I could
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  Speaker 1: have stretched out my hand and struck you and your
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  Speaker 1: people with a plague that would have wiped you off
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  Speaker 1: the earth. But I have raised you up for this
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  Speaker 1: very purpose, that I might show you my power and
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  Speaker 1: that my name I be proclaimed in all the earth.
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  Speaker 1: You still set yourself against my people and will not
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  Speaker 1: let them go. Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will
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  Speaker 1: send the worst hail storm that has ever fallen our Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: and that day it was founded. Till now give an
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  Speaker 1: order now to bring your livestock and everything you have
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  Speaker 1: in the field to a place of shelter, because the
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  Speaker 1: hail will fall on every person and animal that has
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  Speaker 1: not been brought in and is still out in the field,
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  Speaker 1: and they will die. Those officials of Pharaoh who feared
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves
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  Speaker 1: and their livestock inside, But those who ignored the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Moses, stretch out your hand
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  Speaker 1: towards the sky, so that hale will fall all over Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: on people and animals, and on everything growing in the
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  Speaker 1: fields of Egypt. When Moses stretched out his staff towards
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  Speaker 1: the sky. The Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning
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  Speaker 1: flashed down to the ground. So the Lord reigned hail
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  Speaker 1: on the land of Egypt. Hail fell, and lightning flashed
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  Speaker 1: back and forll it was the worst storm in all
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  Speaker 1: the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout Egypt, hale struck everything in the fields, both people
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  Speaker 1: and animals. It beat down everything growing in the fields
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  Speaker 1: and stripped every tree. The only place it did not
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  Speaker 1: hail was the land of Goshen, where the Disraelites were.
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  Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. This time I have sinned,
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  Speaker 1: he said to them. The Lord is in the right,
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  Speaker 1: and I am. My people are in the wrong. Pray
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord, for we have had enough thunder and hail.
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  Speaker 1: I will let you go. You don't have to stay
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  Speaker 1: any longer, Moses replied. When I have gone out of
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  Speaker 1: the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord. The thunder will stop and there will
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  Speaker 1: be no more hail. So you may know that the
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  Speaker 1: earth is the Lord's. But I know that you and
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: your officials still do not fear the Lord God. The
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  Speaker 1: flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was in
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: the ear and the flax was in bloom. The wheat
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  Speaker 1: and spelt, however, were not destroyed because they writen Later.
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  Speaker 1: Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city.
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  Speaker 1: He spread his hands towards the Lord. The thunder and
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on
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  Speaker 1: the land. When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: and bumba had stopped, he send again. He and his
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  Speaker 1: officials cardoned their hearts. So Pharaoh's heart was hard and
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  Speaker 1: he would not let the Israelites go, just as the
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  Speaker 1: Lord had said through Moses Exodus chapter ten. Then the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, go to Pharaoh, for I have
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  Speaker 1: hardened his heart and the hearts of these officials, so
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  Speaker 1: that I may perform these signs of mine among them,
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  Speaker 1: that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: dealt harshly with the Egyptians, and how I performed my
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: signs among them, and that you may know that I
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  Speaker 1: am the Lord. Sir. Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: and said to him, this is what the Lord, the
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: God of the Hebrews, says. How long will you refuse
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  Speaker 1: to humble yourself before me. Let my people go so
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: that they may worship me. If you refuse to let
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  Speaker 1: them go, I will bring locusts into your country to morrow.
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  Speaker 1: They will cover the face of the ground so that
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  Speaker 1: it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you
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  Speaker 1: have left after the hail, including every tree that is
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: growing in your fields. They will fill your houses and
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: those of all your officials and all the Egyptians, something
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  Speaker 1: neither your parents nor your ancestors have ever seen, from
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: the day they settled in this land till now. Then
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: Moses turned and left Pharaoh. Pharaoh's officials said to him,
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  Speaker 1: how long will this man be a snare to us?
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  Speaker 1: Let the people go so that they may worship the
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: Lord their god. Do you not realize that Egypt is ruined?
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  Speaker 1: Then Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. Go
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  Speaker 1: worship the Lord, your god. He said, But tell me
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  Speaker 1: who will be going. Moses answered, we will go with
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  Speaker 1: our young and thou old, with our sons and our daughters,
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  Speaker 1: and with our flocks and herds, because we are to
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: celebrate a festival to the Lord. Pharaoh said, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: be with you. If I let you go along with
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  Speaker 1: your women and children. Clearly you are bent on evil. No,
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  Speaker 1: let only the men go and worship the Lord, since
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  Speaker 1: that's what you've been us king for. Then Moses and
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh's presence, and the Lord
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  Speaker 1: said to Moses, stretch out your hand over Egypt, so
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: in the fields, everything left by the hail. So Moses
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  Speaker 1: stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: an east wind blow across the land all that day
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: and all that night. By morning, the wind had brought
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: the locusts. They invaded all Egypt and settled down in
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: every area of the country in great numbers. Never before
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: there ever be again. They covered all the ground until
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  Speaker 1: it was black. They devoured all that was left after
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: the hail, everything growing in the fields, and the fruit
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: on the trees. Nothing green remained of tree or plant
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  Speaker 1: in all the land of Egypt. Tero quickly summoned Moses
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  Speaker 1: and Maoron and said, I have sinned against the Lord
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  Speaker 1: your God and against you. Now forgive my sin once more,
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  Speaker 1: and prayed to the Lord your God to take this
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: deadly plague away from me. Moses then left Pharaoh and
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  Speaker 1: prayed to the Lord. And the Lord changed the wind
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: to a very strong west wind, which caught up the
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: locusts and carried them into the Red Sea. Not a
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: locust was left anywhere in Egypt. But the Lord hardened
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Moses, stretch out law hand
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  Speaker 1: towards the sky, so that garkness spreads over Egypt, darkness
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  Speaker 1: that can be felt. So Moses stretch out his hand
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  Speaker 1: towards the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for
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  Speaker 1: three days. No one could see anyone else or move
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: about for three days, yet all the Israelites had light
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: in the places where they lived. Then Pharaoh summoned Moses
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  Speaker 1: and said, go worship the Lord. Even your women and
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  Speaker 1: children may go with you, only leave your flocks and
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: herds behind. But Moses said, you must allow us to
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  Speaker 1: have sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: our God. Our live stock too must go with us.
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  Speaker 1: Not a hoof is to be left behind. We have
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  Speaker 1: to use some of them in worshiping the Lord our God.
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  Speaker 1: And until we get there, we will not know what
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  Speaker 1: we are to use to worship the Lord. But the
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Lord heartened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to
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  Speaker 1: let them go. Dharaoh said to Moses, get out of
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  Speaker 1: my sight. Make sure or you do not appear before
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  Speaker 1: me again. The day you see my face, you will die,
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  Speaker 1: just as you say. Moses replied, I will never appear
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  Speaker 1: before you again. Exodus chapter eleven. Now the Lord said
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  Speaker 1: to Moses, I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: and on Egypt. After that he will let you go
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  Speaker 1: from here, and when he does, he will drive you
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  Speaker 1: out completely. Tell the people that men and women alike
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  Speaker 1: are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed towards the people,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh's
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: officials and by the people. So Moses said, this is
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  Speaker 1: what the Lord says about midnight. I will go throughout Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: son of Pharaoh who sits on the throne, to the
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  Speaker 1: firstborn son of the female slave who is at her
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  Speaker 1: hand mill and all the first born of the cattle
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  Speaker 1: as well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt, worse
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: than there has ever been or ever will be again.
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  Speaker 1: But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at
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  Speaker 1: any person or animal. Then you will know that the
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. All these
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: officials of yours will come to me, bowing gown before
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  Speaker 1: me and saying, go you and all the people who
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  Speaker 1: follow you. After that I will leave. Then Moses hot
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  Speaker 1: with anger left Pharaoh. The Lord had said to Moses,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you, so that my
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: wonders may be multiplied in Egypt. Moses and Aaron performed
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: all these wonders before Pharaoh. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart,
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  Speaker 1: and he would not let the Israelites go out of
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  Speaker 1: his country. Exodus chapter twelve. The Lord said to Moses
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  Speaker 1: and Aaron in Egypt, this month is to be for you,
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  Speaker 1: the first month, the first month of your year. Tell
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day
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  Speaker 1: of this month, each man is to take a lamb
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  Speaker 1: for his family, one for each household. If any household
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  Speaker 1: is too small for a whole lamb, they must share
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  Speaker 1: one with their nearest neighbor. Having taken into account the
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  Speaker 1: number of people they are, you are to determine the
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  Speaker 1: amount of lamb meet it in accordance with what each
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: person will eat. The animals you choose must be year
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: old males without defect, and you may take them from
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  Speaker 1: the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members
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  Speaker 1: of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: Then they are to take some of the blood and
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  Speaker 1: put it on the sides and tops of the door
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: frames of the houses where they eat the lambs. That
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: same night, they are to eat the meat roasted over
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: the fire, along with bitter herbs and bread made without yeast.
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  Speaker 1: Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water,
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  Speaker 1: but roast it over a fire with the head, legs
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  Speaker 1: and internal organs. Do not leave any of it till morning.
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  Speaker 1: If some is left till morning, you must burn it.
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  Speaker 1: This is how you are to eat it, with your
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  Speaker 1: cloak tucked into your belt, your sand was on your feet,
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  Speaker 1: and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Lord's passover. On that same night, I
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: will pass through Egypt and strike down every first born
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  Speaker 1: of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment
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  Speaker 1: on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The blood will be a sign for you on the
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: houses where you are, and when I see the blood,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: I will pass over you. No destructive play will touch
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: you when I strike Egypt. This is a day you
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: are to commemorate for the generations to come. You shall
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: celebrate it as a festival to the Lord, a lasting ordinance.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: The seven days, you are to eat bread made without yeast.
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  Speaker 1: On the first day, remove the yeast from your houses,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: for whoever eats anything would yeast in it. From the
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: first day until the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: On the first day, hold sacred assembly, and another one
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  Speaker 1: on the seventh day. Do no work at all on
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: these days except to prepare food for every one to eat.
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  Speaker 1: That is all you may do. Celebrate the festival of
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: unleavened bread because it was on this very day that
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  Speaker 1: I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day
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  Speaker 1: as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. In
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: the first month, you are to eat bread made without
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: yeast from the evening of the fourteenth day until the
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: evening of the twenty first day. For seven days, no
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  Speaker 1: yeast is to be found in your houses, And any one,
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  Speaker 1: whether foreigner or native born, who eats anything with yeast
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must
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  Speaker 1: eat and leavened bread. Then Moses summoned all the elders
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  Speaker 1: of Israel and said to them, go at once and
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  Speaker 1: select the animals for your families, and slaughter the passover lamb.
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  Speaker 1: Take a bunch of hissop, dip it into the blood
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  Speaker 1: in the basin, and put some of the blood on
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  Speaker 1: the top and on both sides of the door frame.
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  Speaker 1: None of you shall go out of the door of
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  Speaker 1: your house until morning. When the Lord go through the
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  Speaker 1: land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the
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  Speaker 1: blood on the top and sides of the door frame,
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  Speaker 1: and will pass over that doorway, and he will not
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  Speaker 1: permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
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  Speaker 1: Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and
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  Speaker 1: your descendants. When you enter the land that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony, and
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  Speaker 1: when your children ask you, what does this ceremony mean
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  Speaker 1: to you? Then tell them it is the Passover sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord passed over the houses of the Israelites
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians. Then the people bow dan and worshiped. The
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  Speaker 1: Israelites did just, but the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
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  Speaker 1: At midnight, the Lord struck an all the first born
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  Speaker 1: in Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh who sat
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  Speaker 1: on the throne, to the first born of the prisoner
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  Speaker 1: who was in the dungeon, and the first born of
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  Speaker 1: all the live stock as well. Pharaoh and all his
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  Speaker 1: officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night,
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  Speaker 1: and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was
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  Speaker 1: not a house without some one dead. During the night,
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh summoned Moses in Arab and said, up, leave my people.
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  Speaker 1: You and the Israelites go worship the Lord as you
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  Speaker 1: have requested. Take your flucks and herds as you have said,
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  Speaker 1: and go and also bless me. The Egyptians urged the
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  Speaker 1: people to hurry and leave the country, for otherwise, they said,
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  Speaker 1: we will all die. So the people took their dough
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  Speaker 1: before the yeast was added, and carried it on their
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  Speaker 1: shoulders in kneed in trucks wrapped in clothing. The Israelites
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  Speaker 1: did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles
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  Speaker 1: of silver and gold and for clothing. The Lord had
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  Speaker 1: made the Egyptians favorably disposed towards the people, and they
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  Speaker 1: gave them what they asked for, so they plundered the Egyptians.
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  Speaker 1: The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about
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  Speaker 1: six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
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  Speaker 1: Many other people went up with them, and also large
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  Speaker 1: droves of live stock, both flocks and herds. With the
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  Speaker 1: dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves
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  Speaker 1: of unleavened bread. The dough was without eyeast because they
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  Speaker 1: had been driven out of Egypt and did not have
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  Speaker 1: time to prepare food for themselves. Now, the length of
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  Speaker 1: time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty years. At the end of four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty years, to the very day, all the Lord's divisions
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  Speaker 1: left Egypt, because the Lord kept vigil that night to
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  Speaker 1: bring them out of Egypt. On this night, all the
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  Speaker 1: Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for
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  Speaker 1: the generations to come. The Lord set to Moses and Aaron,
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  Speaker 1: these are the regulations for the passover meal. No foreign
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  Speaker 1: man may eat it. Any slave you have bought may
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  Speaker 1: eat it after you have circumcised him, but a temporary
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  Speaker 1: resident or a hired worker may not eat it. It
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  Speaker 1: must be eaten inside the house. Take none of the
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  Speaker 1: meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
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  Speaker 1: The whole community of Israel must celebrate it. A foreigner
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  Speaker 1: residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord's pass
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  Speaker 1: over must have all the males in his household circumcise.
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  Speaker 1: Then he may cake guard like one born in the land.
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  Speaker 1: No uncircumcised male may be eated. The same law applies
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  Speaker 1: both to the native born and to the foreign at
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  Speaker 1: residing among you. All the Israelites did just what the
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  Speaker 1: Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, and on that very
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  Speaker 1: day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt to
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  Speaker 1: Pypaa Divisions Exodus chapter thirteen. The Lord said to Moses,
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  Speaker 1: consecrate to me every first born male, the first offspring
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  Speaker 1: of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, with
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  Speaker 1: a human or animal. Then Moses said to the people,
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  Speaker 1: commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought
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  Speaker 1: you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing
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  Speaker 1: containing yeast. To day in the month of Aviv, you
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  Speaker 1: are leaving when the Lord brings you into the land
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  Speaker 1: of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, the land
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  Speaker 1: he swore to your ancestors to give you a land
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  Speaker 1: flowing with milk and honey. You are to observe this
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  Speaker 1: ceremony in this month for seven days, eat bread made
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  Speaker 1: without yeast, and on the seventh day hold a festival
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord. Eat unleavened bread. During those seven days,
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  Speaker 1: nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you,
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  Speaker 1: nor shall any use to be seen anywhere within your
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  Speaker 1: borders on that day. Tell your son, I do this
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  Speaker 1: because of what the Lord did for me when I
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  Speaker 1: came out of Egypt. This observance will be for you
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  Speaker 1: like a sign on your hand and a reminder on
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  Speaker 1: your forehead, that this law of the Lord is to
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  Speaker 1: be on your lips, for the Lord brought you out
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt with his mighty hand. You must keep this
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  Speaker 1: ordinance at the appointed time, year after year, after the
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  Speaker 1: Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites and
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  Speaker 1: gives it to you, as he promised on oath to
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  Speaker 1: you and your ancestors, you are to give over to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord the first offspring of every womb. All the
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  Speaker 1: first born males of your live stock belong to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Redeem with a lamb every first born donkey. But if
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  Speaker 1: you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem ever
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  Speaker 1: first born among your son in the days to come.
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  Speaker 1: When your son asks you, what does this mean, say
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  Speaker 1: to him with a mighty hand. The Lord brought us
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  Speaker 1: out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. When
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed
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  Speaker 1: the first born of both people and animals in Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: This is why I sacrificed to the Lord the first
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  Speaker 1: male offspring of every womb, and redeem each of my
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  Speaker 1: first born son. And it would be like a sign
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  Speaker 1: on your hand and a symbol on your forehead. But
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.
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  Speaker 1: When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead
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  Speaker 1: them on the road through the Philistine country, though that
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  Speaker 1: was shorter, for God said, if they face war, they
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  Speaker 1: might change the mimes and return to Egypt. So God
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  Speaker 1: led the people around by the desert road towards the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sea. The Israelites went about of Egypt ready for battle.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph
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  Speaker 1: had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said,
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  Speaker 1: God will surely come to your aid, and then you
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  Speaker 1: must carry my bones up with you from this place.
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  Speaker 1: After leaving Succor, they camped at Etham, on the edge
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  Speaker 1: of the desert. By day, the Lord went ahead of
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  Speaker 1: them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on
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  Speaker 1: their way, and by night in a pillar of fire
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  Speaker 1: to give them light, so that they could travel by
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  Speaker 1: day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day
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  Speaker 1: nor the pillar of fire by night left its place
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: in front of the people. Exodus chapter fourteen. Then the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, tell the Israelites to ton pack
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  Speaker 1: and camp near Pi Hahijap, between Migdol and the sea.
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  Speaker 1: They are to camp by the sea directly opposite, They
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  Speaker 1: yell a Zephon, Thehio will think the Israelites are wandering
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  Speaker 1: around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert,
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  Speaker 1: and I will hearten Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them.
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  Speaker 1: But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and
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  Speaker 1: all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I
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  Speaker 1: am the Lord. So the Israelites did this. When the
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  Speaker 1: King of Egypt was told that the people had fled,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said,
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  Speaker 1: what have we done. We have let the Israelites go
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  Speaker 1: and have lost their services. So he had his chariot
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  Speaker 1: made ready and took his army with them. He took
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  Speaker 1: six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the
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  Speaker 1: other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, King of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.
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  Speaker 1: The Egyptians, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, horsemen and troops,
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  Speaker 1: pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by
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  Speaker 1: the sea near Piahirov, opposite Bel Zephon. As Pharaoh approached,
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  Speaker 1: the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians marching
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  Speaker 1: after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: They said to Moses, was it because there were no
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  Speaker 1: graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert
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  Speaker 1: to die? What have you done to us by bringing
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  Speaker 1: us out of Egypt. Didn't we say to you in Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: leave us alone, let us serve the Egyptians. It would
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  Speaker 1: have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than
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  Speaker 1: to die in the desert. Moses answered, the people, do
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  Speaker 1: not be afraid. Stand firm, and you will see the deliverance.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord will bring you to day. The Egyptians you
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: see to day, you will never see again. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: will fight for you. You need only to be still. Then,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: the Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out
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  Speaker 1: to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your
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  Speaker 1: star and stretch out your hand over the sea to
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  Speaker 1: divide the water, so that the Israelites can go through
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  Speaker 1: the sea on dry round. I will harden the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them,
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  Speaker 1: and I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army,
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  Speaker 1: through his chariots and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know
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  Speaker 1: that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: his chariots, and his horsemen. Then the Angel of God,
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  Speaker 1: who had been traveling in front of Israel's army, withdrew
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  Speaker 1: and went behind them. The pillar of Cloud also moved
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: from in front and stood the hid them, coming between
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  Speaker 1: the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night, the
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  Speaker 1: cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to
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  Speaker 1: the other, so neither went near the other all night long.
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  Speaker 1: Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and
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  Speaker 1: all that night the Lord drove the sea back with
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.
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  Speaker 1: The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the
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  Speaker 1: sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: their right and on their left. The Egyptians pursued them,
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  Speaker 1: and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them
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  Speaker 1: into the sea. During the last watch of the night,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: a lord looked down from the pillar of fire and
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, let's get away
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: from the Israelites. The Lord is fighting for them against egypt.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Moses, stretch out your hound
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  Speaker 1: over the sea, so that the waters may flow back
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  Speaker 1: over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen. Moses stretched
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  Speaker 1: out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: towards it, and the Lord swept them into the sea.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: The water flowed back and covered the chaliods and hoardsmen,
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  Speaker 1: the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites
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  Speaker 1: into the sea. Not one of them survived. But the
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: Israelites went through the sea young dry ground, with a
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  Speaker 1: wall of water on their right and on their left.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: That day, the Lord saved Israel from the hands of
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: the shore. And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: the Lord and put their trust in him and in
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: Moses his servant. From the First Book of Kings, this
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  Speaker 1: is the story of Solomon's Wisdom, a tale of a
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  Speaker 1: king who chose understanding over riches and whose wisdom has
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  Speaker 1: echoed through thousands of years. One King's Chapter three. Solomon
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  Speaker 1: made an alliance with Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and married
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: his daughter. He brought her to the city of David
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  Speaker 1: until he finished building his palace and the Temple of
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. The people, however,
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: were still sacrificing of the high places because a temple
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: had not yet been built for the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon showed his love for the Lord by walking according
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: to the instructions given him by his father David, except
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  Speaker 1: that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: was the most important highclas and Solomon offered a thousand
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: burnt offerings on that order. At Gibeon, the Lord appeared
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said,
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: ask for whatever you want me to give you. Solomon answered,
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  Speaker 1: you have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David,
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  Speaker 1: because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright
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  Speaker 1: in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him,
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  Speaker 1: and have given him a son to sit on his
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  Speaker 1: throne this very day. Now, Lord, my God, you have
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  Speaker 1: made your servant king in place of my father David.
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  Speaker 1: But I am only a little child and do not
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  Speaker 1: know how to carry out my duties. Your servant is
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: here among the people. You have chosen, a great people,
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  Speaker 1: too numerous account or number. So give your servant a
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  Speaker 1: discerning heart to govern you your people, and to distinguish
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  Speaker 1: between right and wrong. For who is able to govern
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: this great people of yours? The Lord was pleased that
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  Speaker 1: Solomon had asked for this, So God said to him,
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  Speaker 1: since you have asked for this, and not for long
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  Speaker 1: life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the
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  Speaker 1: death of your enemies, but for discernment in administering justice,
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  Speaker 1: I will do what you have asked. I will give
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  Speaker 1: you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will
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  Speaker 1: never have been any one like you, nor will there
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  Speaker 1: ever be Moreover, I will give you what you have
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  Speaker 1: not asked for, both wealth and honor, so that in
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. And
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: if you walk in obedience to me and keep my
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: decrees and commands, as David your father did, I will
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  Speaker 1: give you a long life. Then Solomon awoke, had he
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: realized it had been a dream. He returned to Jerusalem,
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: stood before the ark of the Lord's Covenant, and sacrificed
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: for all his court. Now two prostitutes came to the
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: king and stood before him. One of them said, pardon me,
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  Speaker 1: my lord. This woman and I live in the same house.
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  Speaker 1: I had a baby while she was there with me.
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  Speaker 1: The third day after my child was born, this woman
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  Speaker 1: also had a baby. We were alone. There was no
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  Speaker 1: one in the house but the two of us. During
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  Speaker 1: the night, this woman's son died because she lay on him.
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  Speaker 1: So she got up in the middle of the night
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  Speaker 1: and took my son from my side. While I, your servant,
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  Speaker 1: was asleep. She put him by her breast and put
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  Speaker 1: her dead son by my breast. The next morning I
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  Speaker 1: got up to nurse my son, and he was dead.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: But when I looked at him closely in the morning light,
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: I saw that it wasn't the sun I had borne.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: The other woman said, no, the living one is my son,
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  Speaker 1: the dead one is yours. But the first one insisted,
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: know the dead one is yours, the living one is mine.
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  Speaker 1: And so they argued before the king. The king said,
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  Speaker 1: this one says, my son is alive and your son
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  Speaker 1: is dead, while that one says, no, your son is
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  Speaker 1: dead and mine is alive. Then the king said, bring
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  Speaker 1: me your sword. So they brought a sword for the king.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: He then gave an order cut the living child in two,
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  Speaker 1: and give half to one and half to the other.
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  Speaker 1: The woman whose son was alive, was deeply moved out
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  Speaker 1: of love for her son, and said to the king, pleased,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: my Lord, give her the living baby. Don't kill him.
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  Speaker 1: But the other said, neither I nor you shall have him.
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  Speaker 1: Cut him in two. Then the king gave his ruling,
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: give the living baby to the first woman, do not
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  Speaker 1: kill him, she is his mother. When all Israel heard
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: the verdict the king had given, they held the king
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  Speaker 1: in awe because they saw that he had wisdom from
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: God to administer justice. From the Book of Genesis, this
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  Speaker 1: is the story of Jacob wrestling with God, a mysterious
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: and powerful tale of struggle, surrender, and transformation in the
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: darkest hours of the night Genesis, chapter thirty two. Jacob
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: also went on his way, and the angels of God
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: met him. When Jacob saw them, he said, this is
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: the camp of God. So he named that place Mehenaim.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: in the land of Syr, the country of Edom. He
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  Speaker 1: instructed them, this is what you are to say to
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  Speaker 1: my lord Esau. Your servant, Jacob says, I have been
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  Speaker 1: staying with Laban and have remained there till now. I
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  Speaker 1: have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants.
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  Speaker 1: Now I am sending this message to my lord that
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  Speaker 1: I may find favor in your eyes. When the messengers
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  Speaker 1: returned to Jacob, they said, we went to your brother Esau,
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  Speaker 1: and now he is coming to meet you, and four
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  Speaker 1: hundred men are with him. In great fear and distress,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,
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  Speaker 1: and the flocks and herds and camels as well. He thought,
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  Speaker 1: if Esau comes of the tacts one group, the group
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  Speaker 1: that is left may escape. Then Jacob prayed, Oh, God
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  Speaker 1: of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord
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  Speaker 1: you who said to me, go back to your country
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  Speaker 1: and your relatives, and I will make you prosper I
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  Speaker 1: am unworthy of all the kind miss and faithful miss
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  Speaker 1: you have shown your servant. I had only my staff
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  Speaker 1: when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become
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  Speaker 1: two camps. Save me, I pray from the hand of
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  Speaker 1: my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come
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  Speaker 1: and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.
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  Speaker 1: But you have said, I will surely make you prosper,
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  Speaker 1: and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea,
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  Speaker 1: which cannot be counted. He spent the night there, and
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  Speaker 1: from what he had with him, he selected a gift
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  Speaker 1: for his brother Esau. Two hundred female goats and twenty
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  Speaker 1: male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, thirty female
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  Speaker 1: camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and
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  Speaker 1: twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. He put them
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  Speaker 1: in the care of his servants. Each heard by itself,
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  Speaker 1: and said to his servants, go ahead of me and
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  Speaker 1: keep some space between the herds. He instructed the one
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  Speaker 1: in the league, When my brother Esau meets you and
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  Speaker 1: asks who do you belong to, and where are you going?
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  Speaker 1: And who owns all these animals in front of you,
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  Speaker 1: then you are to say they belong to your servant Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and
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  Speaker 1: he is coming behind us. He also instructed the second,
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  Speaker 1: the third, and all the others who followed the herds,
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  Speaker 1: you are to say the same thing to Esau when
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  Speaker 1: you meet him, and be sure to say your servant
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  Speaker 1: Jacob is coming behind us. For he thought, I will
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  Speaker 1: pacify him with these gifts and sending on a head.
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  Speaker 1: Later when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.
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  Speaker 1: So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he
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  Speaker 1: himself spent the night in the camp. That night, Jacob
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  Speaker 1: got up and took his two wives, his two female servants,
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  Speaker 1: and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
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  Speaker 1: After he had sent them across the stream, he sent
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  Speaker 1: over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and
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  Speaker 1: a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man
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  Speaker 1: saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the
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  Speaker 1: socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched
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  Speaker 1: as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said,
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  Speaker 1: let me go, for it is daybreak. But Jacob replied,
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  Speaker 1: I will not let you go unless you bless me.
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  Speaker 1: The man asked him, what is your name, Jacob Young.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: Then the man said, your name will no longer be Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: that Israel, because you have struggled with God and with
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  Speaker 1: humans and have overcome. Jacob said, please tell me your name.
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  Speaker 1: But he replied, why do you ask my name? Then
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  Speaker 1: he blessed him. There So Jacob called the place Peneo, saying,
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  Speaker 1: it is because I saw God face to face, and
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  Speaker 1: yet my life was spared. The sun rose above him
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  Speaker 1: as he passed Pennel, and he was limping because of
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  Speaker 1: his hip. Therefore, to this day the Israelites do not
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  Speaker 1: eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip,
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  Speaker 1: because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tandem.
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  Speaker 1: As you close your eye and drift into rest, imagine
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  Speaker 1: a garden of breath taking beauty, lush and green, filled
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  Speaker 1: with bird song and gentle rivers, a place of perfect peace.
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  Speaker 1: This is where our story begins, in the garden of
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  Speaker 1: Eden Genesis chapter two. Thus the heavens and the earth
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  Speaker 1: were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day,
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  Speaker 1: God had finished the work he had been doing. So
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  Speaker 1: on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
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  Speaker 1: Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,
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  Speaker 1: because on it he rested from all the work of
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  Speaker 1: creating that he had done. This is the account of
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  Speaker 1: the heavens and the Earth when they were created. When
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  Speaker 1: the Lord God made the Earth and the heavens. Now,
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  Speaker 1: no shrub had yet appeared on the earth, and no
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: plant had yet so sprung up. For the Lord God
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  Speaker 1: had not sent rain on the earth, and there was
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  Speaker 1: no one to work the ground. But streams came up
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  Speaker 1: from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust
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  Speaker 1: of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath
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  Speaker 1: of life, and the man became a living being. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord God had planted a garden in the east
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  Speaker 1: in Eden, and there he put the man he had formed.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out
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  Speaker 1: of the ground, trees that were paising to the eye
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  Speaker 1: and good for food. In the middle of the garden,
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  Speaker 1: with a tree of life and the tree of the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of good and evil. A river watering the garden
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  Speaker 1: flowed from Eden. From there it was separated into four headwaters.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the first is the Pischon. It winds
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  Speaker 1: through the entire land of how Villa where there is gold.
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  Speaker 1: The gold of that land is good. Aromatic Resin and
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  Speaker 1: Onyx are also there. The name of the second river
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  Speaker 1: is the Gihon. It winds through the entire end of Cush.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the third river is the Tigris. It
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  Speaker 1: runs along the east side of Ashure. And the fourth
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  Speaker 1: river is the Euphrates. The Lord God took the man
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  Speaker 1: and put him in the garden of Eden to work
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  Speaker 1: it and take care of it. And the Lord God
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: commanded the man, you are free to eat from any
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  Speaker 1: tree in the garden, but you must not eat from
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  Speaker 1: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for
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  Speaker 1: when you eat from it, you will certainly die. The
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  Speaker 1: Lord God said, it is not good for the man
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  Speaker 1: to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him. Now,
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: the Lord God had formed out of the ground all
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  Speaker 1: the wild animals and all the birds in the the sky.
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  Speaker 1: He brought them to the man to see what he
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  Speaker 1: would name them. And whatever the man called each living creature,
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  Speaker 1: that was its name. So the man gave names to
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  Speaker 1: all the livestock, the birds in the sky, and all
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  Speaker 1: the wild animals, But for Adam, no suitable helper was fanned.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lord God caused the man to fall into
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  Speaker 1: a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took
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  Speaker 1: one of the man's ribs and then closed up the
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  Speaker 1: place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman
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  Speaker 1: from the rib he had taken out of the man,
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  Speaker 1: and he brought her to the man. The man said,
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  Speaker 1: this is now bone of my bones and flesh of
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  Speaker 1: my flesh. She shall be called woman, for she was
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  Speaker 1: taken out of man. That is why a man leaves
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  Speaker 1: his father and mother and is united to his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were
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  Speaker 1: both naked, and they felt no shame Genesis chapter three.
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  Speaker 1: Now the snake was more crafty than any of the
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  Speaker 1: wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to
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  Speaker 1: the woman, did God really say you must not eat
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  Speaker 1: from any tree in the garden. The woman said to
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  Speaker 1: the snake, we may eat fruit from the trees in
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: the garden. But God did say you must not eat
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  Speaker 1: fruit from the tree that is in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the garden, and you must not touch it or you
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  Speaker 1: will die. You will not certainly die. The snake said
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  Speaker 1: to the woman, for God knows that when you eat
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  Speaker 1: from it, your eyes will be open. Then you will
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  Speaker 1: be like God, knowing good and evil. When the woman
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  Speaker 1: saw that the fruit of the tree was good for
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  Speaker 1: food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable gaining wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: she took some and ate it. She also gave some
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  Speaker 1: to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
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  Speaker 1: Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and
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  Speaker 1: they realized they were NATed. So they sewed fig leaves
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  Speaker 1: together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and
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  Speaker 1: his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as
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  Speaker 1: he was walking in the garden in the cool of
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  Speaker 1: the day, and they hid from the Lord God among
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: to the man, where are you? He answered, I heard
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: you in the garden, and I was afraid because I
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: was naked, so I hid. And he said, who told
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: tree that I commanded you not to eat from? The
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  Speaker 1: man said, the woman you put here with me. She
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  Speaker 1: gave me some fruit from the tree, and I yet it.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: this you have done? The woman said, the snake deceived
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: me and I ate. So the Lord God said to
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: the snake, because you have done this, cursed are you
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: above all live stock and all wild animals. You will
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: crawl on your belly, and you will eat dust all
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: the days of your life. And I will put enmity
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  Speaker 1: between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers.
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  Speaker 1: He will crush your head, and you will strike his
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: heel to the woman, he said, I will make your
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: pains in child bearing very severe, with painful labor. You
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: will give birth to children. Your desire will be for
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: your husband, and he will rule over you. To Adam,
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: he said, because you listen to your wife and aet
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, you
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  Speaker 1: must not eat from it. Cursed is the ground because
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: of you, through painful toil, you will eat food from
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  Speaker 1: it all the days of your life. It will produce
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: plants of the field by the sweat of your brow.
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  Speaker 1: You will eat your food until you return to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: since from it you were taken for dust. You are,
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: and too dust, you will return. Adam named his wife
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  Speaker 1: Eve because she would become the mother of all the living.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: his wife and clothed them. And the Lord God said,
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: the man has now become like one of us, knowing
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: out his hand and take also from the tree of
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: life and meat and live forever. So the Lord God
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  Speaker 1: banished him from the garden of Eden to work the
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  Speaker 1: ground from which he had been taken. After he drove
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: the man out, he paced on the east side of
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: the Garden of Eden, cherubim and a flaming sword, flashing
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: back and forth, to guard the way to the Tree
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: of Life. From the Book of Judges, this is the
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: story of Samson and Delilah, a timeless tale of strength
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: and weakness, love and betrayal, and a final act of
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: courage that echoes through eternity Judges, chapter thirteen. Again, the
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  Speaker 1: Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so
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  Speaker 1: the Lord delivered there into the hands of the Philistines
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: for forty years. A certain man of Zodah named Memoa,
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: from the clan of the Daylights, had a wife who
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: was childless, unable to give birth. The Angel of the
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: Lord appeared to her and said you are baron and childis,
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  Speaker 1: but you are going to become pregnant and give birth
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  Speaker 1: to a son. Now see to it that you drink
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  Speaker 1: no wine or other ferment to drink, and that you
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  Speaker 1: do not eat anything unclean. You will become pregnant and
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  Speaker 1: have a son whose head is never to be touched
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  Speaker 1: by her razor. Because the boy is to become a
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: Nazarite dedicated to God from the womb. He will take
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  Speaker 1: the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
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  Speaker 1: Then the woman went to her husband and told him.
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  Speaker 1: A man of God came to me. He looked like
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  Speaker 1: an angel of God, very awesome. I didn't ask him
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name,
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  Speaker 1: but he said to me, you would become pregnant and
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  Speaker 1: have the sun. Now, then drink no wine or other
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  Speaker 1: fermented drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: boy will be a Nazarite of God from the womb
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  Speaker 1: until the day of his death. Then Manoah prayed to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, pardon your servant, Lord, I beg you to
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  Speaker 1: let the man of God you sent to us come
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: again to teach us how to bring up the boy
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  Speaker 1: who is to be born. God heard Manoah, and the
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: Angel of God came again to the woman while she
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: was out in the field, but her husband, Manoah, was
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: not with her. The woman hurried to tell her husband,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: he's here, the man who appeared to me the other day.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came
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  Speaker 1: to the man, he said, are you the man who
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: talked to my wife? I am, he said so. Manoah
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  Speaker 1: asked him, when your words are fulfilled, what is to
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  Speaker 1: be the rule that governs the boy's life and work.
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  Speaker 1: The Angel of the Lord answered, your wife must do
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  Speaker 1: all that I have told her. She must not eat
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  Speaker 1: anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink any wine
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  Speaker 1: or other cemented drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: do everything I hath commanded her. We never said to
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: the Angel of the Lord, we would like you to
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: stay until we prepare a young goat for you. The
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: Angel of the Lord replied, even though you detain me,
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: I will not eat any of your food, but if
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  Speaker 1: you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Manoa did not realize that it was the Angel of
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: the Lord. Then Manoa inquired the Angel of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: What is your name? So that we may honor you
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: when your word comes true? He replied, why do you
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: ask thy name? It is beyond understanding. Then Manoah took
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  Speaker 1: a young goat together with a grain offering, and sacrificed
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: it on a rock to the Lord, and the Lord
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  Speaker 1: did an amazing thing. While Manoah and his wife watched
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: as the flame blazed up from the altar towards heaven.
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: The Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. Seeing this,
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  Speaker 1: Manoah and his wife fell with her faces to the ground.
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: When the Angel of the Lord did not show himself
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: was the Angel of the Lord. We are doomed to die.
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  Speaker 1: He said to his wife, we have seen God. But
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: his wife answered, if the Lord had meant to kill us,
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  Speaker 1: he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things,
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  Speaker 1: or now told us this. The woman gave birth to
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  Speaker 1: a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: Lord blessed him. Judges chapter fourteen. Samson went down to
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  Speaker 1: Tymna and saw there a young Philistine woman When he returned,
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: he said to his father and mother, I've seen a
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: Philistine woman and Tymna. Now get her for me as
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: my wife. His father and mother replied, isn't there an
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  Speaker 1: acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people?
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  Speaker 1: Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?
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  Speaker 1: But Samson said to his father, get her for me.
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  Speaker 1: She's the right one for me. His parents did not
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  Speaker 1: know that this was from the Lord, who was seeking
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  Speaker 1: an occasion to confront the Philistines, for at that time
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: they were ruling over Israel. Samson went down to Tymna
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  Speaker 1: together with his father and mother. As they approached the vinyard,
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: answered Tymner. Suddenly a young lion came roaring towards him.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, so
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  Speaker 1: that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands,
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: as he might have torn it young goat. But he
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  Speaker 1: told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.
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  Speaker 1: Then he went down and talked with a woman, and
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  Speaker 1: he liked her. Some time later, when he went back
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: to marry her, he turned aside to look at the
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: lion's carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: bees and some honey. He scooped out the honey with
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: his hands and ate as he went along. When he
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  Speaker 1: rejoined his parents, he gave them son, and they too
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: et it, but he did not tell them that he
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: had taken the honey from the lion's carcass. Now his
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: father went down to see the woman, and there Sampson
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  Speaker 1: held a feast, as was customary for young men. When
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  Speaker 1: the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: his companions. Let me tell you a riddle, Samson said
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: to them. If you can give me the answer within
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: the seven days of the feast, I will give you
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  Speaker 1: thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. If you
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  Speaker 1: can't tell me the answer, you must give me thirty
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: lining garments and thirty sets of clothes. Tell us your riddle,
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 1: they said, Let's hear it. He replied, out of the eater,
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: something to eat. Out of the strong, something sweet. For
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: three days they could not give the answer. On the
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: fourth day, they said to Samson's wife, coax your husband
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: you and your father's household to death. Did you invite
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: us here to steal our property. Then Samson's wife threw
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: herself on him, sobbing, you hate me, you don't really
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 1: love me. You've given my people a riddle, but you
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: haven't told me the answer. I haven't even explained it
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: to my father or mother, he replied, So why should
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: I explain it to you? She cried the whole seven
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: days of the feast, so on the seventh day he
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: finally told her. Because she continued to press him, She
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: in turn explained the riddle to her people before sunset
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: on the seventh day, the men of Atwan said to him,
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: what is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a liar?
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: Samson said to them, if you had not plowed with
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle. Then
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: the spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. He
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: went down to Ashkalon, struck down thirty of their men,
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: stripped them of everything, and gave their clothes to those
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: who had explained riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: his father's home, and Samson's wife was given to one
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  Speaker 1: of his companions who had attended him at the feast. Judges,
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  Speaker 1: chapter fifteen. Later on, at that I'm of wheat harvest.
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  Speaker 1: Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife.
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: He said, I'm going to my wife's room, but her
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: father would not let him go in. I was so
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: sure you hated her. He said that I gave her
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more attractive? Take
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: her instead. Samson said to them, this time I have
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: a right to get even with the Philistines. I will
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: really harm them. So he went out and caught three
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in path.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails,
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: lit the torches, and let the foxes loose in the
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: standing corn of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: and standing corn, together with the vinyards and olive groves.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: When the Philistines asked who did this, they were told Samson,
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: the tym Night's sun in law, because his wife was
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: given to his companion. So the Philistines went up and
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: burned her and her father to death. Samson said to them,
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: since you have acted like this, I swear that I
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: won't stop until I get my revenge on you. He
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: went down and stayed in a cave in the rock
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: of Eatam. The Philistines went up and camping Judah, spreading
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: out near Lehigh. The people of Judah asked, why have
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: you come to fight us? We have come to take
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: Samson prisoner. They answered, to do to him as he
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: did to us. Then three thousand men from Judah went
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: down to the cave in the rock of Etanh and
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: sent to Samson, don't you realize that the Philistines are
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: rulers over us? What have you done to us? He answered,
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: I merely did to them what they did to me.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: They said to him, We've come to tie you up
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  Speaker 1: and hand you over to the Philistines. Samson said, swear
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: to me that you won't kill me. Yourselves agreed, They answered,
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: we will only tie you up and hand you over
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: to them. We will not kill you. So they bound
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: him with two new ropes and led him up from
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: the rug. As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came towards him,
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: shouting the spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him.
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: the bindings dropped from his hands. Finding a fresh jawbone
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: thousand men. Then Samson said, with a donkey his jawbone,
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone,
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: I have killed a thousand men. When he finished speaking,
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: he threw away the jawbone, and a place was called
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: ray math Lehai. Because he was very thirsty, he cried
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: out to the Lord, you have given your servant this
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: into the hands of the uncircumcised. Then God opened up
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: the hollow place in Lehigh, and water came out of it.
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived. So
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: the spring was called en Hakori, and it is still
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: there in Lehigh. Samson led Israel for twenty years in
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: the days of the Philistines Judges, Chapter sixteen. One day
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: went in to spend the night with her. The people
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: of Gaza were told Samson is here, so they surrounded
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: the place and lay in wait for him all night
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: at the city gate. They made no move during the night,
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: saying at dawn we will kill him. But Samson lay
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: there only until the middle of the night. Then he
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: got up and took hold of the doors of the
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: city gate together with the two posts, and tore them loose,
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebrun.
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 1: Some time later he fell in love with a woman
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  Speaker 1: in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delna. The
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, see
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: if you can ure him into showing you the secret
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: of his great strength, and how we can overpower him
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: so that we may cie him up and subdue him.
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: of silver. So Delilah said to Samson, tell me the
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: secret of your great strength and how you can be
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: tied up and subdued. Samson answered her, if any one
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  Speaker 1: ties me with seven fresh bow strings that have not
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: been dried, I'll become as weak as any other man.
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: bow strings that are not being dried, and she tied
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  Speaker 1: him with them. With men hidden in the room. She
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: called to him Samson, the philistines are upon you. But
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: he snapped the bow strings as easily as a piece
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: of string snaps when it comes close to a flame,
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: so the secret of his strength was not discovered. Then
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: Delilah said to Samson, you've made a fool of me.
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: You reside to me. Come now tell me how you
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 1: can be tied. He said, if any one ties me
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: securely with new ropes that have never been used, I'll
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: become as weak as any other man. So Delilah took
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 1: hidden in the room, she called to him, Samson, the
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: Felistines are upon you. But he snapped the ropes off
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: his arms as if they were threads. Delilah then said
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: to Samson, all this time you've been making a fool
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: of me and lying to me. Tell me how you
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: can be tied. He replied, if you weave the seven
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: braids of my head into the fabric on the loom
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: and tighten it with a pin, I'll become as weak
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: as any other man. So, while he was sleeping, Delilah
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: took the seven braids of his head, wove them into
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: the fabric, and tightened it with a pin. Again, she
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: called to him, Samson, the Philistines are upon you. He
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: woke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: the loom with the fabric. Then she said to him,
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: how can you say I love you when you won't
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: confide in me. This is the third time you've made
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: a fool of me and haven't told me the secret
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: of your great strength. With such nagging, she prodded him
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 1: day after day until he was sick to death of it.
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: So he told her everything. No razor has ever been
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 1: used on my head, he said, because I've been a
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: Nazareie dedicated to God from my mother's womb. If my
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: head were shaved, my strength would leave me and I
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: would become as weak as any other man. When Delilah
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 1: saw that he had told her everything, she sent word
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 1: to the rulers of the Philistines, come back once more.
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: He has told me everything. So the rulers of the
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. After putting
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: so began to subdue him, and his strength left him.
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: Then she called Samson, the Philistines are upon you. He
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: woke from his sleep and thought, I'll go out as
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: before and shake myself free. But he did not know
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: that the Lord had left him. Then the Philistines seized him,
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: gouged out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza,
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: binding him with bronze shackles. They set him to grind
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: him corn in the prison, but the hair on his
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 1: head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: great sacrifice to Dagon, their god, and to celebrate, saying,
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: our God has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying,
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 1: our God has delivered our enemy into our hands, the
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: one who laid waste our land and multiplied our slain.
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: While they were in high spirits, they shouted, bring out
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: Samson to entertain us. So they called Samson out of
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: the prison, and he performed for them. When they stood
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: him among the pillars, Samson said to the servant who
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: held his hands, put me when I can feel the
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: against them. Now the temple was crowded with men and women.
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: All the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 1: the roof were about three thousand men and women watching
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: Samson perform. Then Samson prayed to the Lord, Sovereign, Lord,
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: remember me, Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: let me, with one blow, get revenge on the Philistines
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: from my two eyes. Then Samson reached towards the two
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: central pillars on which the temple stood, bracing himself against them,
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: his right hand on the one and his left hand
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: on the other. Samson said, let me die with the Philistines.
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: Then he pushed with all his might, and down came
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: the temple, on the rulers and all the people in it.
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: Thus he killed many more when he died than when
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: he lived. Then his brothers and his father's whole family
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: went down to get him. They brought him back and
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: buried him between Zoda and Eschtel in the tomb of Manoah,
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: his father. He had led Israel for twenty years. The
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: story of Cain and Abel comes from the Book of Genesis,
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: chapter four. It is a story of two brothers, jealousy,
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: and the devastating consequences of letting anger and envy take
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: root in the heart. Genesis chapter four, Adam made love
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: birth to Cain. She said, with the help of the Lord,
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: I have brought forth a man. Later she gave birth
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks and Cain
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: worked the soil. In the course of time, Cain brought
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: some of the fruits of the soil as an offering
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: to the Lord. But Abel also brought an offering fat
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: portions from some of the first born of his flock.
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: The Lord looked with favor on Mabel and his offering,
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: but on Cain and his offering, he did not look
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: was downcast. Then the Lord said to Cain, why are
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: what is right, will you not be accepted. But if
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: you do not do what is right, sym is crouching
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 1: your door. It desires to have you, But you must
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: rule over it. Thou. Cain said to his brother Abel,
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: let's go out to the field. While they were in
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Cain where is your brother Abel?
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know, he replied, am I my brother's keeper?
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: The Lord said, what have you done? Listen, Your brother's
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: are under a curse and driven from the ground, which
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: When you work the ground, it will no longer yield
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 1: on the earth. Cain said to the Lord, my punishment
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: is more than I can dare. To day, you are
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: driving me from the land, and I will be hidden
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: from your presence. I will be a restless wonder on
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me. But
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: the Lord said to him, not so. Any one who
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over. Then the
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: Lord put a mar come Cain, so that no one
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: who found him would kill him. So Cain went out
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod,
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: east of Eden. Cain made love to his wife, and
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: then building a city, and he named it after his son, Enoch.
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: To Enoch was born Eorrad, and Erad was the father
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: of Mahujal, and Mahujel was the father of Methusio, and
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: Matthusio was the father of Lamekh. Lamek married two women,
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: one named Ada and the other Zillah. Ada gave birth
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: to Jabo. He was the father of those who live
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: in tents and raised livestock. His brothers named was Jubo.
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: He was the father of all who play stringed instruments
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: and pipes. Zella also had a son, Tubalcane, who forged
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubalcane's
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: sister was Nama. Lamak said to his wives Ada and Zillah,
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: listen to me, wives of Lameah, hear my words. I
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: have killed a man for wounding me, a young man
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: for injuring me. If came is avenged seven times, then
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: Lamakh seventy seven times. Adam made love to his wife again,
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: saying God has granted me another child in place of Abo,
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 1: since Cain killed him. Sev also had a son, and
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: he named him Enosh. At that time, people began to
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 1: call on the name of the Lord. The story of
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: the birth of Jesus comes from the Gospel of Luke,
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: chapters one and two. It is the most celebrated story
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 1: ever told of angels, shepherds, wise men, and a baby
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: born in a manger who would change the entire world forever.
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: The Gospel according to Luke Luke chapter one, many have
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: undertaken to draw up an account of the things that
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: down to us by those who from the first were
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: eye witnesses and servants of the Word. With this in mind,
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning,
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: I too, decided to write an orderly account for you,
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: of the things you have been taught. In the time
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: of Herod, King of Judea, there was a priest named
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah. His wife, Elizabeth,
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: was also a descendant of Heeron. Both of them were
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 1: righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord's
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 1: commands and decrees blamelessly. But they were childless because Elizabeth
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: was not able to conceive, and they were both very old. Once,
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 1: when Zechariah's division was on duty and he was serving
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: as priest before God, he was chosen by Lot, according
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 1: temple of the Lord and burn incense. And when the
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: worshippers were praying outside. Then an angel of the Lord
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 1: appeared to him, standing at the right side of the
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 1: altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was startled
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: and was gripped with fear. But the angel said to him,
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: do not be afraid, Secoria, your prayer has been heard.
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: are to call him John. He will be a joy
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: his birth, for he will be great in the sight
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: of the Lord. He is never to take wine or
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Even before he is born. He will bring
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: back many of the people of Israel to the Lord,
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: their God. And he will go on before the Lord
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: in the spirit and power of the Elijah, to turn
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: the hearts of the parents to their children, and the
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous to make ready
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: a people prepared for the Lord. Zechariah asked the angel,
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: how can I be sure of this? I am an
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 1: old man, and my wife is well along in years.
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: The angel said to him, I am Gabriel. I stand
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: in the presence of God, and I have been sent
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  Speaker 1: to speak to you and to tell you this good news.
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  Speaker 1: And now you will be silent and not able to
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  Speaker 1: speak until the day this happens, because you did not
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  Speaker 1: believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he
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  Speaker 1: stayed so long in the temple. When he came out,
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  Speaker 1: he could not speak to them. They realized he had
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  Speaker 1: seen a vision in the temple, for he kept making
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  Speaker 1: signs to them, but remained unable to speak. When his
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  Speaker 1: time of service was completed, he returned home. After this,
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  Speaker 1: his wife, Elizabeth, became pregnant and for five months remained
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  Speaker 1: in seclusion. The Lord has done this for me, she said,
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  Speaker 1: In these days he has shown his favor and taken
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  Speaker 1: away my disgrace among the people. In the sixth month
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  Speaker 1: of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth,
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  Speaker 1: a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be
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  Speaker 1: married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David.
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  Speaker 1: The virgin's name was Mary. The angel went to her
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  Speaker 1: and said, greetings, you, who are highly favored. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: is with you. Mary was greatly troubled at his words
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  Speaker 1: and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But
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  Speaker 1: the Angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary,
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  Speaker 1: you have found favor with God. You will conceive and
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  Speaker 1: give birth to a son, and you are to call
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  Speaker 1: him Jesus. He will be great and will be called
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  Speaker 1: the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will
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  Speaker 1: give him the throne of his father David, and he
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  Speaker 1: will reign over Jacob's descendants forever. His kingdom will never end.
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  Speaker 1: How will this be, Mary asked the angel, since I
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  Speaker 1: am a virgin. The angel answered, the Holy Spirit will
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  Speaker 1: come on you, and the power of the Most High
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  Speaker 1: will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born
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  Speaker 1: will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth, your relative,
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  Speaker 1: is going to have a child in her old age,
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  Speaker 1: and she who is said to be unable to conceive,
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  Speaker 1: is in her sixth month. For no word from God
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  Speaker 1: will ever fail. I am the Lord's servant. Mary answered,
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  Speaker 1: may your word to me be fulfilled. Then the angel
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  Speaker 1: left her. At that time, Mary got ready and hurried
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  Speaker 1: to a town in the hill country of Judea, where
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  Speaker 1: she entered Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard
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  Speaker 1: Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice,
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  Speaker 1: she exclaimed, blessed are you among women? And blessed is
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  Speaker 1: the child you will bear. But why am I so
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  Speaker 1: favored that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears,
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  Speaker 1: the baby in my womb leapt for joy. Blessed is
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  Speaker 1: she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his
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  Speaker 1: promises to her. And Mary said, my soul glorifies the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior, for he
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  Speaker 1: has been mindful of the humble state of his servant.
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  Speaker 1: From now on, all generations will call me blessed, for
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  Speaker 1: the Mighty One has done great things for me. Holy
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  Speaker 1: is his name. His mercy extends to those who fear
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  Speaker 1: him from generation to generation. He has performed mighty deeds
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  Speaker 1: with his arm. He has scattered those who are proud
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  Speaker 1: in their inmost thoughts. He has brought down rulers from
• 2:31:33
  Speaker 1: their thrones, but has lifted up the humble. He has
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  Speaker 1: filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the
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  Speaker 1: rich away empty. He has helped his servant Israel, remembering
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  Speaker 1: to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: as he promised our ancestors. Mary stayed with Elizabeth for
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: about three months and then returned home. When it was
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  Speaker 1: time for Elizabeth to have her baby. She gave birth
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  Speaker 1: to a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the
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  Speaker 1: Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.
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  Speaker 1: On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child,
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  Speaker 1: and they were going to name him after his father, Zechariah.
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  Speaker 1: But his mother spoke up and said, no, he is
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  Speaker 1: to be called John. They said to her, but there
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  Speaker 1: is no one among your relatives who has that name.
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  Speaker 1: Then they made signs to his father to find out
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  Speaker 1: what he would like to name the child. He asked
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  Speaker 1: for a writing tablet, and to everyone's astonishment, he wrote,
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  Speaker 1: his name is John. Immediately his mouth was opened and
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  Speaker 1: his tone set free, and he began to speak, praising God.
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  Speaker 1: All the neighbors were filled with awe and throughout the
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  Speaker 1: hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things,
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  Speaker 1: everyone who had wondered about it, asking what then is
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  Speaker 1: this child going to be? For the Lord's hand was
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  Speaker 1: with him. His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit and prophesied, Praise be to the Lord, the God
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, because he has come to his people and
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  Speaker 1: redeemed them. He has raised up a horn of salvation
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  Speaker 1: for us in the house of his servant David, as
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  Speaker 1: he said, through his holy prophets of laon Ago salvation
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  Speaker 1: from our enemies and from the hand of all who
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  Speaker 1: hate us, to show mercy to our ancestors, and to
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  Speaker 1: remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to our
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  Speaker 1: forefather Abraham, to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
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  Speaker 1: and to enable us to serve him without fear, in
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  Speaker 1: holiness and righteousness before him all our days. And you,
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  Speaker 1: my child, will be called a prophet of the most High,
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  Speaker 1: for you will go on before the Lord to prepare
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  Speaker 1: the way for him to give his people the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of
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  Speaker 1: the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising
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  Speaker 1: sun will come to us from heaven to shine on
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  Speaker 1: those living in darkness and in the shadow of death,
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  Speaker 1: to guide our feet into the path of peace. And
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  Speaker 1: the child grew and became strong in spirit Luke, chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: In those days, Caesar Augustus issued a degree that a
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  Speaker 1: census should be taken of the entire Roman world. This
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  Speaker 1: was the first census that took place. Mahrquirinius was governor
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  Speaker 1: of Syria, and everyone went to their own town to register.
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  Speaker 1: So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth
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  Speaker 1: in Galilee to Judea to Bethdehem, the town of David,
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  Speaker 1: because he belonged to the house and line of David.
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  Speaker 1: He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged
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  Speaker 1: to be married to him and was expecting a child.
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  Speaker 1: While they were there, the time came for the baby
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  Speaker 1: to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn,
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  Speaker 1: a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him
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  Speaker 1: in a manger because there was no guest room available
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  Speaker 1: for them, and there were shepherds living out in the
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  Speaker 1: fields near by keeping watch over their flocks. At night,
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  Speaker 1: an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the
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  Speaker 1: glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
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  Speaker 1: For the Angel said to them, do not be afraid.
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  Speaker 1: I bring you good news that will cause great joy
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  Speaker 1: for all the people. To day, in the town of David,
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  Speaker 1: a savior has been born to you. He is the
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  Speaker 1: Messiah the Lord. This will be a signed to you.
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  Speaker 1: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying
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  Speaker 1: in a manger. Suddenly a great company of the heavenly
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  Speaker 1: host appeared with the Angel, praising God and saying glory
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  Speaker 1: to God in the highest Heaven and on earth, peace
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: to those on whom His favor rests. When the angels
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherd said
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  Speaker 1: to one another, let us go to Bethlehem and see
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  Speaker 1: this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told
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  Speaker 1: us about. So they hurried off and found Mary and
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  Speaker 1: Joseph and the baby who was lying in the manger.
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  Speaker 1: When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning
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  Speaker 1: what had been told them about this child, and all
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  Speaker 1: who heard it were amazed at what the shepherd said
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  Speaker 1: to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: ponted them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and
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  Speaker 1: praising God for all the things they had heard and see,
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  Speaker 1: which were just as they had been told. On the
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  Speaker 1: eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child,
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  Speaker 1: he was named Jesus, the name the Angel had given
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  Speaker 1: him before he was conceived. When the time came for
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  Speaker 1: the purification rites required by the Lord of Moses, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. As it is written in the Law of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, every firstborn male is to be consecrated to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord and to offer a sacrifice, in keeping with
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  Speaker 1: what is said in the Law of the Lord, a
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  Speaker 1: pair of doths or two young pigeons. Now there was
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  Speaker 1: a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout.
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 1: He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to
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  Speaker 1: him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die
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  Speaker 1: before he had seen the Lord's Messiah. Moved by the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: he went into the temple courts when the parents brought
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  Speaker 1: in the child Jesus, to do for him what the
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  Speaker 1: custom of the law acquired Simeon took him in his
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  Speaker 1: arms and praised God, saying, Sovereign Lord, as you have promised,
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  Speaker 1: you may now dismiss your servant in peace, for my
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  Speaker 1: eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in
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  Speaker 1: the sight of all nations. Alight for revelation to the
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  Speaker 1: gentiles and the glory of your people Israel. The child's
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  Speaker 1: father and mother marveled at what was said about him.
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 1: Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother,
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  Speaker 1: this child is destined to cause the falling and rising
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  Speaker 1: of many in Israel, and to be a sign that
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  Speaker 1: will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many
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  Speaker 1: hearts will be revealed, and a sword will pierce your
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: own soul too. There was also a prophet, Anna, the
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Tenuel of the tribe of Asher. She was
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  Speaker 1: very old. She had lived with her husband seven years
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  Speaker 1: after her marriage, and then was a widow until she
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: was eighty four. She never left the temple, but worshiped
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: spoke about the child to all who were looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to the redemption of Jerusalem. When Joseph and Mary had
• 2:39:41
  Speaker 1: done everything required by the law of the Lord. They
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  Speaker 1: returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth, and
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: the child grew and became strong. He was filled with wisdom,
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: and the grace of God was on him. Every year.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus's parents went to Jerusale for the festival of the Passover.
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  Speaker 1: When he was twelve years old. They went up to
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  Speaker 1: the festival according to the custom. After the festival was over,
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  Speaker 1: while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed
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  Speaker 1: behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it, thinking
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  Speaker 1: he was in their company. They traveled on for a day.
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  Speaker 1: Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 1: When they did not find him, they went back to
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 1: Jerusalem to look for him. After three days, they found
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  Speaker 1: him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 1: to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him
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  Speaker 1: was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 1: parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, son,
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  Speaker 1: why have you treated us like this? Your father and
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: I have been anxiously searching for you. Why are you
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: searching for me? He asked, didn't you know, I had
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: to be in my father's house. But they did not
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: understand what he was saying to them. Then he went
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  Speaker 1: out to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them.
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 1: But his mother treasured all these things in her heart,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and in favor
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  Speaker 1: with God and men. Genesis chapter six. When human beings
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  Speaker 1: began to increase in number on the earth and daughters
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: were born to them, the sons of God saw that
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 1: the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 1: of their natures. Then the Lord said, my spirit will
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 1: not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal. Their
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 1: days will be a hundred and twenty years. Then Athelen
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: were on the earth in those days, and also afterward,
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  Speaker 1: when the sons of God went to the daughters of
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 1: humans and had children by them, they were the heroes
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 1: of old men of renown. The Lord saw how great
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 1: the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human
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  Speaker 1: heart was only evil. All the time, the Lord regretted
• 2:42:22
  Speaker 1: that he had made human beings on the earth, and
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, I
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  Speaker 1: will wipe from the face of the earth the human
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  Speaker 1: race I have created, and with them the animals, the birds,
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 1: and the creatures that move along the ground. For I
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  Speaker 1: regret that I have made them. But Noah found favor
• 2:42:47
  Speaker 1: in the eyes of the Lord. This is the account
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 1: of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man,
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 1: blameless among the people of his time, and he walked
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  Speaker 1: faithfully with God. Noah had three sons, shem Ham and Jaffeth.
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  Speaker 1: Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become,
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  Speaker 1: for all the people on the earth had corrupted their ways.
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  Speaker 1: So God said to Noah, I am going to put
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  Speaker 1: an end to all people, for the earth is filled
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  Speaker 1: with violence because of them. I am surely going to
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  Speaker 1: destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an
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  Speaker 1: arc of cypress wood. Make rooms in it and coated
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  Speaker 1: with pitch inside and out. This is how you are
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  Speaker 1: to build it. The ark is to be three hundred
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  Speaker 1: cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. Make
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  Speaker 1: a roof for it, leaving below the roof and opening
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  Speaker 1: one cubit high all around. Put a door in the
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 1: side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to bring flood waters on the earth
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  Speaker 1: to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 1: has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth
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  Speaker 1: will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you,
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  Speaker 1: and you will enter the ark. You and your sons,
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  Speaker 1: and your wife and your son's wives with you. You
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  Speaker 1: are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures,
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  Speaker 1: male and female, to keep them alive. With you. Two
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  Speaker 1: of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal,
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  Speaker 1: and of every kind of creature that moves along the
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  Speaker 1: ground will come to you to be kept alive. You
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  Speaker 1: are to take every kind of food that is to
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  Speaker 1: be eaten and store it away as food for you
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  Speaker 1: and for them. Noah did everything just as God commanded
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  Speaker 1: him Genesis chapter seven. The Lord then said to Noah,
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 1: go into the Ark, you and your whole family, because
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  Speaker 1: I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with
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  Speaker 1: you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a
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  Speaker 1: male and its mate, and one pair of every kind
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  Speaker 1: of unclean animal, a male and its mate. And also
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  Speaker 1: seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female
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  Speaker 1: to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven
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  Speaker 1: days from now, I will send rain on the earth
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  Speaker 1: for forty days and forty knights, and I will wipe
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  Speaker 1: from the face of the earth every living creature I
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  Speaker 1: have made. And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
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  Speaker 1: Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 1: on the earth, and Noah and his sons, and his
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 1: wife and his son's wives entered the Ark to escape
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  Speaker 1: the waters of the flood. Pairs of clean and unclean animals,
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 1: of birds, and of all the creatures that move along
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  Speaker 1: the ground, male and female came to Noah and entered
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  Speaker 1: the Ark as God had commanded Noah. And after the
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 1: seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth in the
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 1: six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day
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  Speaker 1: of the second month. On that day, all the springs
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  Speaker 1: of the Great Deep burst forth, and the flood gates
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: of the heavens were opened, and rain fell on the
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 1: earth forty days and forty nights. On that very day,
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  Speaker 1: Noah and his sons shem Ham and Jaffith, together with
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  Speaker 1: his wife and the wives of his three sons entered
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  Speaker 1: the ark. They had with them every wild animal according
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  Speaker 1: to its kind, or livestock according to their kinds, every
• 2:47:06
  Speaker 1: creature that moves along the ground according to its kind,
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  Speaker 1: and every bird according to its kind. Everything with wings,
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  Speaker 1: pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life
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  Speaker 1: in them came to Noah and entered the ark. The
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  Speaker 1: animals going in were male and female of every living thing,
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  Speaker 1: as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him
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  Speaker 1: in for forty days. The flood kept coming on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and as the waters increased, they lifted the ark high
• 2:47:41
  Speaker 1: above the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of
• 2:47:49
  Speaker 1: the water. They rose greatly on the earth, and all
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  Speaker 1: the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. Rose
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  Speaker 1: and covered the mountains to a depth of more than
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: fifteen cubits. Every living thing that moved on land perished, birds, livestock,
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  Speaker 1: wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the
• 2:48:22
  Speaker 1: breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing
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  Speaker 1: on the face of the earth was wiped out. People
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  Speaker 1: and animals and the creatures that move along the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah
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  Speaker 1: was left and those with him in the Ark. The
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  Speaker 1: waters flooded the earth for one hundred and fifty days
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter eight. But God remembered Noah and all the
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  Speaker 1: while animals and the livestock that were with him in
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  Speaker 1: the Ark, and he sent a wind over the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep
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  Speaker 1: and the flood gates of the heavens had been closed,
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  Speaker 1: and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The
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  Speaker 1: water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the one hundred and fifty days, the water had gone down,
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  Speaker 1: and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the
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  Speaker 1: ark came to rest on the mountains of Adarat. The
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  Speaker 1: waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on
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  Speaker 1: the first day of the tenth month, the tops of
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  Speaker 1: the mountains became visible. After forty days, Noah opened a
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  Speaker 1: window he had made in the ark and sent out
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  Speaker 1: a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until
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  Speaker 1: the water had dried up from the earth. Then he
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  Speaker 1: sent out a dove to see if the water had
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  Speaker 1: receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove
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  Speaker 1: could i know where to perch because there was water
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  Speaker 1: over all the surface of the earth. So it returned
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  Speaker 1: to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand
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  Speaker 1: and took the dove and brought it back to himself
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  Speaker 1: in the ark. He waited seven more days and again
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  Speaker 1: sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove
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  Speaker 1: returned to him in the evening, there in its beak
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  Speaker 1: was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that
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  Speaker 1: the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven
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  Speaker 1: more days and sent the bove out again, but this
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  Speaker 1: time it did not return to him. By the first
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  Speaker 1: day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and
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  Speaker 1: first year, the water had dried up from the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw
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  Speaker 1: that the surface of the ground was dry. By the
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh day of the second month, the earth was
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  Speaker 1: completely dry. Then God said to Noah, come out of
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  Speaker 1: the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and
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  Speaker 1: their wives, bring out every kind of living creature that
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  Speaker 1: is with you, the birds, the animals, and all the
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  Speaker 1: creatures that move along the ground, so they can multiply
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  Speaker 1: on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number
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  Speaker 1: on it. So Noah came out together with his sons
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  Speaker 1: and his wife and his son's wives. All the animals
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  Speaker 1: and all the creatures that move along the ground, and
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  Speaker 1: all the birds. Everything that moves on land came out
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  Speaker 1: of the ark, one kind after another. Then Noah built
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  Speaker 1: an altar to the Lord, and taking some of all
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  Speaker 1: the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt ufferings
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  Speaker 1: on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said
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  Speaker 1: in his heart, never again will I curse the ground
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  Speaker 1: because of humans, even though every inclination of the human
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  Speaker 1: heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I
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  Speaker 1: destroy all living creatures as I have done. As long
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  Speaker 1: as the earth endures see time and harvest, cold and heat,
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  Speaker 1: summer and winter, gay and night will never cease Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter nine. Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying
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  Speaker 1: to them, be fruitful and increase in number and fill
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  Speaker 1: the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall
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  Speaker 1: on all the beasts of the earth, and on all
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  Speaker 1: the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves
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  Speaker 1: along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea.
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  Speaker 1: They are given into your hands. Everything that lives and
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  Speaker 1: moves about will be food for you. Just as I
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  Speaker 1: gave you the great plants, I now give you everything.
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  Speaker 1: But you must not eat meat that has its life
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  Speaker 1: blood still in it. And for your life blood, I
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  Speaker 1: will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting
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  Speaker 1: from every animal, and from each human being too. I
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  Speaker 1: will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever sheds human blood by humans, shall their blood be shed.
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  Speaker 1: For in the image of God has God made mankind
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  Speaker 1: as for you, be fruitful, and increase in number, multiply
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  Speaker 1: on the earth, and increase upon it. Then God said
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  Speaker 1: to Noah and to his sons with him, I now
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  Speaker 1: establish my government with you and with your descendants after you,
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  Speaker 1: and with every living creature that was with you, the birds,
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  Speaker 1: the livestock, and all the wild animals, all those came
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  Speaker 1: out of the ark with you, every living creature on earth,
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  Speaker 1: I establish my government with you. Never again will all
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  Speaker 1: life be destroyed by the waters of a flood. Never
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  Speaker 1: again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.
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  Speaker 1: And God said, this is the sign of the covenant
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  Speaker 1: I am making between me and you, and every living
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  Speaker 1: creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come.
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  Speaker 1: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it
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  Speaker 1: will be the sign of the covenant between me and
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  Speaker 1: the Earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and
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  Speaker 1: the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my
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  Speaker 1: covenant between me and you and all living creatures of
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  Speaker 1: every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood
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  Speaker 1: to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds,
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  Speaker 1: I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between
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  Speaker 1: God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: So God said to Noah, this is the sign of
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  Speaker 1: the covernment I have established between me and all life
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  Speaker 1: on the earth. The sons of Noah who came out
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  Speaker 1: of the ark were shem Ham and Jeffeth. Ham was
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  Speaker 1: the father of Canaan. These were the three sons of Noah,
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  Speaker 1: and from them came the people who were scattered over
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  Speaker 1: the whole earth. Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded
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  Speaker 1: to plant a vineyard. When he drank some of its wine,
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  Speaker 1: he became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. Ham
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  Speaker 1: the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told
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  Speaker 1: him his two brothers outside. But Shem and Jafforth took
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  Speaker 1: her garment and laid it across their shoulders. Then they
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  Speaker 1: walked in backward and covered their father's naked body. Their
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  Speaker 1: faces were turned the utter way so that they would
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  Speaker 1: not see their father naked. When Noah awoke from his
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  Speaker 1: wine and found out what his youngest son had done
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  Speaker 1: to him, he said, cursed became em, the lowest of slaves.
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  Speaker 1: Will he be to his brothers. He also said, praise
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  Speaker 1: be to the Lord, the God of Shem. May Canaan
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  Speaker 1: be the slave of Shem. May God extend Jaffith's territory.
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  Speaker 1: May Jaffith live in the tenths of Shem, and make
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  Speaker 1: Cayman be the slave of Jeffith. After the flood, Noah
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  Speaker 1: lived three hundred and fifty years. Noah lived a total
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  Speaker 1: of nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.