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6Purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. Also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.'" 7For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
8So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who live in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9Yahweh said to me, "Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession."
10(The Emim lived there in the past, a great and numerous people, tall like the Anakim. 11They are also considered to be Rephaim, like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. 12The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
13"Now rise up and cross over the brook Zered." We went over the brook Zered.
14The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from among the camp, as Yahweh swore to them. 15Also Yahweh's hand was against them, to destroy them from among the camp, until they were consumed.
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15Thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16I made the nations shake at the sound of his fall, when I threw him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. 17They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slaughtered by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
18To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slaughtered by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says LordOfMine Yahweh.
1In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a monster in the seas; and you broke forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers. 3Thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a group of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net. 4I will leave you on the land, I will throw you out into the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you. 5I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. 6I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you. 7When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. 8All the bright lights of the sky I will make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says LordOfMine Yahweh. 9I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. 10Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall. 11For thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you. 12By the swords of the mighty I will cause your multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed. 13I will also destroy all its animals from beside many waters; nor will the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them. 14Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says LordOfMine Yahweh. 15When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those who dwell there, then shall they know that I am Yahweh.
16This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament with it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament with it, says LordOfMine Yahweh.
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1Paul, a servant of God, and an ambassador of Jesus AnointedOne, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, 2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began; 3but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the order of God our Savior; 4to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus AnointedOne our Savior.
5I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you; 6if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior. 7For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain; 8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled, 9holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
10For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake. 12One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons." 13This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. 15To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 16They profess that they know God, but by their actions they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
1But say the things which fit sound doctrine, 2that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in selfless-love, and in perseverance: 3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good, 4that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, 5to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
6Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober minded. 7In all things show yourself an example of good actions. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, 8and soundness of speech that can't be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed having no evil thing to say about us.
