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Genesis Chapter 5

²¹Enoch lived sixty-five years, and fathered Methuselah. ²²After he fathered Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and fathered [other] sons and daughters. ²³All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. ²⁴Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

²⁵Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and fathered Lamech. ²⁶After he fathered Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred eighty-two years, and fathered [other] sons and daughters. ²⁷All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

²⁸Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, and fathered a son, ²⁹and he named him Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed." ³⁰After he fathered Noah, Lamech lived five hundred ninety-five years, and fathered [other] sons and daughters. ³¹All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

³²Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis Chapter 6

¹When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, ²God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives. ³Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years." ⁴The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

⁵Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart, all day, was only evil. ⁶Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. ⁷Yahweh said, "I will wipe out humans that I have created-from-nothing from the surface of the ground: humans, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky. For I am sorry that I made them." ⁸But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

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Joshua Chapter 8

¹⁴When the king of Ai saw it they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. ¹⁵Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. ¹⁶All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. ¹⁷There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

¹⁸Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city. ¹⁹The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire. ²⁰When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. ²¹When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai. ²²The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape. ²³They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

²⁴When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword. ²⁵All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. ²⁶For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. ²⁷Only the livestock and the plunder of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua. ²⁸So Joshua burned Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day. ²⁹He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

³⁰Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, ³¹as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings. ³²He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. ³³All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh's covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. ³⁴Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, exactly as is written in the book of the law. ³⁵There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

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1 Chronicles Chapter 2

⁹The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him were Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. ¹⁰Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; ¹¹and Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz, ¹²and Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse; ¹³and Jesse fathered his firstborn Eliab, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, ¹⁴Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, ¹⁵Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh; ¹⁶and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three [in all]. ¹⁷Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

¹⁸Caleb the son of Hezron fathered [children] with Azubah [his] wife, and with Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. ¹⁹Azubah died, and Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur. ²⁰Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.

²¹Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took [to be his wife] when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. ²²Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. ²³Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. ²⁴After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron's wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

²⁵The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. ²⁶Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. ²⁷The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. ²⁸The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur. ²⁹The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban and Molid. ³⁰The sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim; but Seled died without children. ³¹The son of Appaim was Ishi. The son of Ishi was Sheshan. The son of Sheshan was Ahlai. ³²The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai were Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children. ³³The sons of Jonathan were Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

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Matthew Chapter 6

¹⁴"For if you-all forgive people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you-all. ¹⁵But if you-all don't forgive people their trespasses, nor will your Father forgive your trespasses.

¹⁶"Moreover when you-all fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by people to be fasting. Absolutely I tell you-all, they have received their reward. ¹⁷But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, ¹⁸so that you are not seen by people to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

¹⁹"Don't store treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰but store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal; ²¹for where your treasure is, there your heart will also be.

²²"The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. ²³But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If even the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

²⁴"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and selflessly-love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You-all can't serve both God and your-savings. ²⁵Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you-all will eat, or what you-all will drink; nor for your body, what you-all will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶See the birds of the sky, they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you-all of much more value [than they are]?

²⁷"Which of you-all by being anxious, can add one moment to your lifespan? ²⁸Why are you-all anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't work, nor do they spin, ²⁹yet I tell you-all that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. ³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the fire-oven, won't he much more clothe you-all, you-all of little faith?

³¹"So don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?' ³²For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you-all need all these things. ³³But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you-all as well. ³⁴So don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is [quite] sufficient.