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Numbers Chapter 31

³²Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, ³³seventy-two thousand head of cattle, ³⁴sixty-one thousand donkeys, ³⁵and thirty-two thousand people in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. ³⁶The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep; ³⁷and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. ³⁸The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two. ³⁹The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one. ⁴⁰The people were sixteen thousand, of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two people. ⁴¹Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses. ⁴²Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought ⁴³now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, ⁴⁴thirty-six thousand head of cattle, ⁴⁵thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, ⁴⁶and sixteen thousand people, ⁴⁷even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn from every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh's tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

⁴⁸The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses. ⁴⁹They said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us. ⁵⁰We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh."

⁵¹Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels. ⁵²All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. ⁵³The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. ⁵⁴Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.

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Ezekiel Chapter 18

²⁴But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

²⁵Yet you say, The way of LordOfMine is not equal. Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal? ²⁶When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in it; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die. ²⁷Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. ²⁸Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. ²⁹Yet says the house of Israel, The way of LordOfMine is not equal. house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Aren't your ways unequal?

³⁰Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says LordOfMine Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. ³¹Throw away all the transgressions in which you have rebelled; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, house of Israel? ³²For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says LordOfMine Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

Ezekiel Chapter 19

¹Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, ²and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs. ³She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. ⁴The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. ⁵Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion. ⁶He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. ⁷He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring. ⁸Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. ⁹They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. ¹⁰Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. ¹¹It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches. ¹²But it was plucked up in fury, it was thrown down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong branches were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them. ¹³Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. ¹⁴Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Ezekiel Chapter 20

¹In the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.

²The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ³Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live, says LordOfMine Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you.

⁴Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Make them know the abominations of their fathers; ⁵and tell them, Thus says LordOfMine Yahweh: In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God; ⁶in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. ⁷I said to them, 'Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'

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Proverbs Chapter 5

¹My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: ²that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge. ³For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, ⁴But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. ⁶She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it. ⁷Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth. ⁸Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house, ⁹lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; ¹⁰lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house. ¹¹You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed, ¹²and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; ¹³neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me! ¹⁴I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly." ¹⁵Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. ¹⁶Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? ¹⁷Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. ¹⁸Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. ¹⁹A loving doe and a graceful deer - let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love. ²⁰For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another? ²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths. ²²The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. ²³He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Proverbs Chapter 6

¹My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; ²You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth. ³Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor. ⁴Give no sleep to your eyes, nor dozing to your eyelids. ⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

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1 Thessalonians Chapter 2

¹³For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe. ¹⁴For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in AnointedOne Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews ¹⁵who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don't please God, and are contrary to all men, ¹⁶forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

¹⁷But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire, ¹⁸because we wanted to come to you - indeed, I, Paul, once and again - but Satan hindered us. ¹⁹For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? ²⁰For you are our glory and our joy.

1 Thessalonians Chapter 3

¹So when we couldn't stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone, ²and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good-news of AnointedOne, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith, ³that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. ⁴For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know. ⁵For this reason I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

⁶But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and selfless-love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you, ⁷for this reason, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith. ⁸For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. ⁹For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God, ¹⁰night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect what is lacking in your faith?