Day of tribulation III

And Emmanuel answered

and said unto them,

Take heed that no man deceive you.

For many shall come in my name,

saying,

I am Christ;

and shall deceive many.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:

see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

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And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

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And the Lord said unto Moses,

Rise up early in the morning,

and stand before Pharaoh,

and say unto him,

Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews,

Let my people go,

that they may serve me.

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The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the workman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues - because of Sarai Abram's wife.

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For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.

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For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

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And the Lord God - took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And the Lord God commanded the man,

saying,

Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:

for in the day - that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

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In the selfsame day entered Noah,

and Shem,

and Ham,

and Japheth,

the sons of Noah,

and Noah's wife, . . .

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward,

and covered the nakedness of - their father;  - and their faces were backward,

and they saw not their father's nakedness.

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Male and female created he them; and blessed them,

and called their name Adam,

in the day when they were created.

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And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

And he said,

Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And he said,

Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem;

and Canaan shall be his servant.

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Unto the workman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;

in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husbandman, and he shall rule over thee.

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And unto Adam he said,

Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,

saying,

Thou shalt not eat of it:

cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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And the Lord said,

I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one an-other, and shall hate one another.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

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Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of workmen.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself,

saying,

After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

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And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be pTreached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

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And shall say,

Cast ye up,

cast ye up,

prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Samuel