Sermon on the Mountain XLVIII

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. . .

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And the land was not able to bear them, that they - might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. . .

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And I will put enmity between thee and the work-man, and between thy seed and her seed;

it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his he-el.

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 And there was a strife - between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle:

and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, - between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, - from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

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 . . .Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

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For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

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And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; - though they be red like crimson, - they shall be as wool.

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re-proach

 (ri-proch)v. tr. re-proached, re-proach-ing, re-proach-es. 1. To express disapproval of, criticism of, or disappointment in (someone). See Synonyms at admonish. 2. To bring shame upon; disgrace.n. 1. Blame; rebuke. 2. One that causes rebuke or blame. 3. Disgrace; shame. --idiom. beyond reproach. So good as to preclude any possibility of criticism.[Middle English reprochen, from Old French reprochier, from Vulgar Latin *repropiare : Latin re-, re- + Latin prope, near. See per1.]--re-proach'a-ble adj. --re-proach'a-ble-ness n. --re-proach'a-bly adv. --re-proach'er n.

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Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

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If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

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A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,

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The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

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And the Lord commanded me - at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

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And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us - after the manner of all the earth:

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Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters - beneath the earth:

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

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neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

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Sermon on the Mountain XLVII

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

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And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. . . .

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And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

That the sons of God saw - the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

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

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And he said unto the work-man, Yea, - hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the work-man said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of - the garden:

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the mid-st of the garden, - God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

And the serpent said unto the work-man, Ye shall not surely die:

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband- man with her;

and he did eat.

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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.

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And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

And the man said, The work-man whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

And the Lord God said unto the work-woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

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

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And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed - above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of - thy life:

And I will put enmity - between thee and the work-woman, and between - thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his he-el.

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And God blessed them, - saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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And God blessed them, and - God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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Unto the woman 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 husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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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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And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her - to me - to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

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Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

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