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Exodus Chapter 25

³¹Make a lampstand of pure gold. Make the lampstand of hammered work. Let its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers be of one piece with it. ³²There are to be six branches going out from its sides: three branches of the lampstand out from its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out from its other side; ³³three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand; ³⁴and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers; ³⁵and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand. ³⁶Their buds and their branches are to be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold. ³⁷Make it with seven lamps, and they will raise up its lamps to give light to the space in front of it. ³⁸Its snuffers and its snuff dishes will be of pure gold. ³⁹Make it from a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories. ⁴⁰See that you make them according to their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

Exodus Chapter 26

¹"Furthermore make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with throne-angels. Have a skillful workman make them. ²Each curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long, and each curtain four cubits wide. All the curtains are to have the same dimensions. ³Five curtains will be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains will be coupled to one another. ⁴Make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling. ⁵Make fifty loops in the one curtain, and make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops are to be be opposite one another. ⁶Make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle will be a unit.

1 Kings Chapter 17

¹⁷After these things the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him. ¹⁸She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"

¹⁹He said to her, "Give me your son." He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed. ²⁰He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow I stay with by killing her son?"

²¹He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul enter him again."

²²Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. ²³Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, "Behold, your son lives."

²⁴The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth."

1 Kings Chapter 18

¹After many days the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth."

²Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria. ³Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly: ⁴for when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) ⁵Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals."

⁶So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. ⁷As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?"

⁸He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here!'"

⁹He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? ¹⁰As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, 'He is not here,' he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you. ¹¹Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."' ¹²As soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth. ¹³Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water? ¹⁴Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here;"' and he will kill me."

¹⁵Elijah said, "As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today." ¹⁶So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

¹⁷When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?"

¹⁸He answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals. ¹⁹Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."

²⁰So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to Mount Carmel. ²¹Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.

²²Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but Baal's prophets are four hundred fifty men. ²³Let them therefore give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bull, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under it. ²⁴You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh. The God who answers by fire, let him be God." All the people answered, "It is well said."

Nehemiah Chapter 10

²⁸The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters- everyone who had knowledge and understanding- ²⁹joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; ³⁰and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; ³¹and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year [crops] and the exaction of every debt.

³²Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with a third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: ³³for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. ³⁴We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God's altar, as it is written in the law; ³⁵and to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh's house; ³⁶also the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;

John Chapter 2

¹The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there. ²Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding. ³When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

⁴Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."

⁵His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."

⁶Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece. ⁷Jesus said to them, "Fill the water pots with water." So they filled them up to the brim. ⁸He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it. ⁹When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom ¹⁰and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then what is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!" ¹¹This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

¹²After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

¹³The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. ¹⁵He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money and overthrew their tables. ¹⁶To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!" ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

¹⁸The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"

¹⁹Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

²⁰So the Jews said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?" ²¹But he spoke of the temple of his body. ²²So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did. ²⁴But Jesus didn't entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone, ²⁵and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.