\p Genesis 9.0: \c 9
\p
\p Genesis 9.1: \v 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.
\p Genesis 9.2: \v 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
\p Genesis 9.3: \v 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
\p Genesis 9.4: \v 4 But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
\p Genesis 9.5: \v 5 I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
\p Genesis 9.6: \v 6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
\p Genesis 9.7: \v 7 Be fruitful and multiply. Increase abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it.”
\p
\p Genesis 9.8: \v 8 God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
\p Genesis 9.9: \v 9 “As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,
\p Genesis 9.10: \v 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.
\p Genesis 9.11: \v 11 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
\p Genesis 9.12: \v 12 God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
\p Genesis 9.13: \v 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
\p Genesis 9.14: \v 14 When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
\p Genesis 9.15: \v 15 I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
\p Genesis 9.16: \v 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
\p Genesis 9.17: \v 17 God said to Noah, “This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
\p
\p Genesis 9.18: \v 18 The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
\p Genesis 9.19: \v 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
\p
\p Genesis 9.20: \v 20 Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
\p Genesis 9.21: \v 21 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.
\p Genesis 9.22: \v 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
\p Genesis 9.23: \v 23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
\p Genesis 9.24: \v 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
\p Genesis 9.25: \v 25 He said,
\q1 “Canaan is cursed.
\q2 He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
\p
\p Genesis 9.26: \v 26 He said,
\q1 “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem.
\q2 Let Canaan be his servant.
\q1
\p Genesis 9.27: \v 27 May God enlarge Japheth.
\q2 Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.
\q2 Let Canaan be his servant.”
\p
\p Genesis 9.28: \v 28 Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood.
\p Genesis 9.29: \v 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
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\p Ezra 6.0: \c 6
\p
\p Ezra 6.1: \v 1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
\p Ezra 6.2: \v 2 A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:
\b
\pi1
\p Ezra 6.3: \v 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits,\f + \fr 6:3 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width sixty cubits;
\p Ezra 6.4: \v 4 with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
\p Ezra 6.5: \v 5 Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.
\pi1
\p Ezra 6.6: \v 6 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.
\p Ezra 6.7: \v 7 Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
\p Ezra 6.8: \v 8 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.
\p Ezra 6.9: \v 9 That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
\p Ezra 6.10: \v 10 that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
\p Ezra 6.11: \v 11 I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
\p Ezra 6.12: \v 12 May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.
\b
\p
\p Ezra 6.13: \v 13 Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.
\p
\p Ezra 6.14: \v 14 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
\p Ezra 6.15: \v 15 This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
\p
\p Ezra 6.16: \v 16 The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.
\p Ezra 6.17: \v 17 They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
\p Ezra 6.18: \v 18 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
\p
\p Ezra 6.19: \v 19 The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
\p Ezra 6.20: \v 20 Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
\p Ezra 6.21: \v 21 The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,
\p Ezra 6.22: \v 22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.
\p Daniel 2.0: \c 2
\p
\p Daniel 2.1: \v 1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
\p Daniel 2.2: \v 2 Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.
\p Daniel 2.3: \v 3 The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.4: \v 4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.5: \v 5 The king answered the Chaldeans, “The thing has gone from me. If you don’t make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill.
\p Daniel 2.6: \v 6 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you will receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.7: \v 7 They answered the second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.8: \v 8 The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.
\p Daniel 2.9: \v 9 But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.10: \v 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.
\p Daniel 2.11: \v 11 It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.12: \v 12 Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
\p Daniel 2.13: \v 13 So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
\p
\p Daniel 2.14: \v 14 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.
\p Daniel 2.15: \v 15 He answered Arioch the king’s captain, “Why is the decree so urgent from the king?” Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
\p Daniel 2.16: \v 16 Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.
\p
\p Daniel 2.17: \v 17 Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
\p Daniel 2.18: \v 18 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
\p Daniel 2.19: \v 19 Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
\p Daniel 2.20: \v 20 Daniel answered,
\q1 “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever;
\q2 for wisdom and might are his.
\q1
\p Daniel 2.21: \v 21 He changes the times and the seasons.
\q2 He removes kings, and sets up kings.
\q1 He gives wisdom to the wise,
\q2 and knowledge to those who have understanding.
\q1
\p Daniel 2.22: \v 22 He reveals the deep and secret things.
\q2 He knows what is in the darkness,
\q2 and the light dwells with him.
\q1
\p Daniel 2.23: \v 23 I thank you, and praise you,
\q2 you God of my fathers,
\q1 who have given me wisdom and might,
\q2 and have now made known to me what we desired of you;
\q2 for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.24: \v 24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.25: \v 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.26: \v 26 The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?”
\p
\p Daniel 2.27: \v 27 Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers;
\p Daniel 2.28: \v 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
\p
\p Daniel 2.29: \v 29 “As for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what will happen.
\p Daniel 2.30: \v 30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
\p
\p Daniel 2.31: \v 31 “You, O king, saw, and behold,\f + \fr 2:31 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and its appearance was terrifying.
\p Daniel 2.32: \v 32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,
\p Daniel 2.33: \v 33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
\p Daniel 2.34: \v 34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
\p Daniel 2.35: \v 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
\p
\p Daniel 2.36: \v 36 “This is the dream; and we will tell its interpretation before the king.
\p Daniel 2.37: \v 37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory.
\p Daniel 2.38: \v 38 Wherever the children of men dwell, he has given the animals of the field and the birds of the sky into your hand, and has made you rule over them all. You are the head of gold.
\p
\p Daniel 2.39: \v 39 “After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to you; and another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.
\p Daniel 2.40: \v 40 The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush.
\p Daniel 2.41: \v 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
\p Daniel 2.42: \v 42 As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken.
\p Daniel 2.43: \v 43 Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay.
\p
\p Daniel 2.44: \v 44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
\p Daniel 2.45: \v 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.46: \v 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.
\p Daniel 2.47: \v 47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”
\p
\p Daniel 2.48: \v 48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
\p Daniel 2.49: \v 49 Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.
\p Daniel 8.0: \c 8
\p
\p Daniel 8.1: \v 1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
\p Daniel 8.2: \v 2 I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
\p Daniel 8.3: \v 3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
\p Daniel 8.4: \v 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.
\p
\p Daniel 8.5: \v 5 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
\p Daniel 8.6: \v 6 He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.
\p Daniel 8.7: \v 7 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
\p Daniel 8.8: \v 8 The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.
\p
\p Daniel 8.9: \v 9 Out of one of them came out a little horn, which grew exceedingly great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
\p Daniel 8.10: \v 10 It grew great, even to the army of the sky; and it cast down some of the army and of the stars to the ground, and trampled on them.
\p Daniel 8.11: \v 11 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
\p Daniel 8.12: \v 12 The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.
\p
\p Daniel 8.13: \v 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”
\p
\p Daniel 8.14: \v 14 He said to me, “To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.”
\p
\p Daniel 8.15: \v 15 When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me something like the appearance of a man.
\p Daniel 8.16: \v 16 I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”
\p
\p Daniel 8.17: \v 17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”
\p
\p Daniel 8.18: \v 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.
\p
\p Daniel 8.19: \v 19 He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.
\p Daniel 8.20: \v 20 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
\p Daniel 8.21: \v 21 The rough male goat is the king of Greece. The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
\p Daniel 8.22: \v 22 As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.
\p
\p Daniel 8.23: \v 23 “In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.
\p Daniel 8.24: \v 24 His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.
\p Daniel 8.25: \v 25 Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand.
\p
\p Daniel 8.26: \v 26 “The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”
\p
\p Daniel 8.27: \v 27 I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.