Judges 12Judges 13Mark 7.1-23Judges 12
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Now the men of Ephraim came together and took up arms and went over to Zaphon and they said to Jephthah, Why did you go over to make war against the children of Ammon without sending for us to go with you? Now we will put your house on fire over you.
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And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in danger, and the children of Ammon were very cruel to us, and when I sent for you, you gave me no help against them.
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So when I saw that there was no help to be had from you, I put my life in my hand and went over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hands: why then have you come up to me this day to make war on me?
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Then Jephthah got together all the men of Gilead and made war on Ephraim and the men of Gilead overcame Ephraim.
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And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No
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Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.
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Now Jephthah was judge of Israel for six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in his town, Mizpeh of Gilead.
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And after him, Ibzan of Beth-lehem was judge of Israel.
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He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.
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And Ibzan came to his death and his body was put to rest at Beth-lehem.
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And after him, Elon the Zebulonite was judge of Israel and he was judge of Israel for ten years.
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And Elon the Zebulonite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
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And after him, Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, was judge of Israel.
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He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses and he was judge of Israel for eight years.
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And Abdon, the son of Hillel, came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.
Judges 13
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And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
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Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah and his wife had never given birth to a child.
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And the angel of the Lord came to the woman, and said to her, See now! though you have never given birth to children, you will be with child and give birth to a son.
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Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food
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For you are with child and will give birth to a son his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
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Then the woman came in, and said to her husband, A man came to me, and his form was like the form of a god, causing great fear I put no question to him about where he came from, and he did not give me his name
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But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.
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Then Manoah made prayer to the Lord, and said, O Lord, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and make clear to us what we are to do for the child who is to come.
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And God gave ear to the voice of Manoah and the angel of God came to the woman again when she was seated in the field but her husband Manoah was not with her.
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So the woman, running quickly, gave her husband the news, saying, I have seen the man who came to me the other day.
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And Manoah got up and went after his wife, and came up to the man and said to him, Are you the man who was talking to this woman? And he said, I am.
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And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, what is to be the rule for the child and what will be his work?
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And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Let the woman take note of what I have said to her.
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She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.
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And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Now let us keep you while we make ready a young goat for you.
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And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Though you keep me I will not take of your food but if you will make a burned offering, let it be offered to the Lord. For it had not come into Manoah's mind that he was the angel of the Lord.
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Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, What is your name, so that when your words come true we may give you honour?
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But the angel of the Lord said to him, Why are you questioning me about my name, seeing that it is a wonder?
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So Manoah took the young goat with its meal offering, offering it on the rock to the Lord, who did strange things.
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And when the flame went up to heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were looking on and they went down on their faces to the earth.
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But the angel of the Lord was seen no more by Manoah and his wife. Then it was clear to Manoah that he was the angel of the Lord.
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And Manoah said to his wife, Death will certainly be our fate, for it is a god whom we have seen.
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But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.
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So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him.
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And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Mark 7
1-23
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And there came together to him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,
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And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.
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Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:
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And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.
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And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?
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And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
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For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.
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And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.
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For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:
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But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,
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You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother
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Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.
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And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you:
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There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.
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And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying.
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And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,
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Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
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And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.
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Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,
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The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
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All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.
