• I have chosen you and not rejected you

    From Caleb Williams@eyjzw@shipi.fun to alt.privacy.anon-server on Wed Sep 16 19:27:21 2026
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    And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod
    shall be for the head of the house of their fathers. And it came to
    pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and
    called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof:
    and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could
    interpret them unto Pharaoh. And as he was now going down, his
    servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. And John
    calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying,
    Art thou he that should come? The word of the LORD came also unto
    me, saying, Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have
    sons or daughters in this place. Now therefore stand and see this
    great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes. And they said
    one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that
    we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would
    not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. And I said, What
    shall I do, LORD? The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the
    sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. And he went down with
    them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his
    mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

    And they sware. I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. And all wept,
    and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but
    sleepeth. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of
    honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may
    appoint over this business. Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the
    passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the
    place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.

    Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy
    judgments. And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his
    cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the
    congregation, before the LORD. Because of his strength will I wait
    upon thee: for God is my defence. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it
    is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the
    land of Chittim it is revealed to them. But he shall not defile
    himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. For
    it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain
    portion should be for the singers, due for every day. Mine age is
    departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut
    off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness:
    from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my
    necessities, and to them that were with me. Then Daniel went to his
    house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
    his companions: That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven
    concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not
    perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. And it came to
    pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God
    remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow,
    when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. And when Saul's
    son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and
    all the Israelites were troubled. Wherefore the king hearkened not
    unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might
    perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite
    unto Jeroboam the son of So when all Israel saw that the king
    hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What
    portion have we in David? O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy
    servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
    And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto
    her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a
    couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and
    when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. Is
    there unrighteousness with God? And he burnt his burnt offering and
    his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the
    blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

    Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. And one told Jacob,
    and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel
    strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. And these are they whom
    David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after
    that the ark had rest. But the men would not hearken to him: so the
    man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they
    knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when
    the day began to spring, they let her go. Besides the cakes, he
    shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of
    thanksgiving of his peace offerings. And he took unto him bow and
    arrows. And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm
    trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight
    steps. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
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