The Divide X

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 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 Lord God

said

unto the woman,

What is this - that thou - hast done?

And the workman said,

The serpent beguiled me,

and I did eat.

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And the Lord God said

unto the serpent,

Because thou hast done this, . . .

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For Pharaoh will

say

of the children of Israel,

They are entangled in the land,

the wilderness hath shut them in.

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart,

- that he - shall follow after them;

and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh,

and upon all his host;

that the Egyptians may know - that I am the Lord.

And they did so.

And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled:

and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people,

and they said,

Why have we done this,

that we - have let Israel go from serving us?

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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:

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And in process of time it came to pass, - that Cain - brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. . . .

. . . And Cain talked with Abel his brother:

and it came to pass,

when they were in the field, that Cain  - rose up against Abel his brother,

and slew him.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?

And he said,

I know not:

Am I my brother's keeper?

And he said,

What hast thou done?

the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

And now art thou cursed from the earth,

which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from - thy hand;

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength;

a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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And he said,

Cursed be Canaan;

a servant  of  servants shall he - be unto his brethren.

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Yea,

they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

And shed innocent blood,

even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,

whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan:

and the land was polluted with blood.

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Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless,

saying,

Blessed be Egypt my people,

and Assyria the work of my hands,

and Israel - mine inheritance.

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And he said,

Blessed be the Lord God of Shem;

and Canaan shall be his servant.

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And Abram said,

Behold,

to me thou hast given no seed:

and,

lo,

one born in - my house is - mine - heir. . . .

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in the image of God created he him;

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And,

behold,

the word of the Lord came unto him,

saying, . . .

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and God divided the light from the darkness.

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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 the Lord said unto Abram, after - that Lot - was - separated - from him,

Lift up now thine eyes,

and look - from the place where - thou art northward,

and southward,

and eastward,

and westward: . . .

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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,

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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,

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And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,

and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil - - continually.

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Lest there should be among you man,

or workman,

or family,

or tribe,

whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God,

to go and serve the gods of these nations;

lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

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Behold,

I go forward,

but he is not there;

and backward,

but I cannot perceive him:

On the left hand,

where he doth work,

but I cannot behold him:

he hideth himself on the right hand,

that I cannot see him:

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Then shall he say also

unto them on the left hand,

Depart from me,

ye cursed,

into everlasting fire,

prepared for the devil and his angels:

For I was an hungred,

and ye gave me no meat:

I was thirsty,

and ye gave me no drink:

I was a stranger,

and ye took me not in:

naked,

and ye clothed me not:

sick,

and in prison,

and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answer him,

saying,

Lord,

when saw we thee an hungred,

 or athirst,

or a stranger,

or naked,

or sick,

or in prison,

and did not minister unto thee?

Then shall he answer them,

saying,

Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these,

ye did it not to me.

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

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And it come to pass,

when he heareth the words of this curse,

that he bless himself in his heart,

saying,

I shall have peace,

though I walk in the imagination of mine heart,

to add drunkenness to thirst:

The Lord will not spare him,

but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man,

and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him,

and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

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and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

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And when he was come into the house of his god,

they that came forth of - his own bowels –

slew him there with the sword.

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. . .This shall not be thine heir;  . .

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but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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but - he that shall come forth out of thine - own bowels - shall be thine heir.

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And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father;

and he felt him,

and said,

The voice is Jacob's voice,

but the hands - are - the hands of Esau.

And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy,

as his brother Esau's hands:

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and God divided the light from the darkness.

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so he blessed him.

And he said,

Art thou my very son Esau?

 And he said,

I am.

And he said,

Bring it near to me,

and I will eat of my son's venison, . . .

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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;

and man became a living soul.

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And he said,

Who told thee - that thou - wast naked?

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. . . that my soul may bless thee.

And he brought it near to him, . . .

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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 he did eat:

and he brought him wine,

and he drank.

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And he brought him forth abroad,

and said,

Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars,

if thou be able to number them:

and he said unto him,

So shall thy seed be.

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Ask thy young men,

and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes:

for we come in a good day:

give,

I pray thee,

whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants,

and to

thy son David.

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Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house;

but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins,

he shall build the house unto my name.

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ISamuelyeaon

The Divide IX

This prophecy IS being fulfilled 
now 

Aaron

And it shall be upon Aaron to minister:

and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out,

that he die not.

And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.

And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord.

And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.

And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats,

and thou shalt make for them girdles,

and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother,

and his sons with him;

and shalt anoint them,

and consecrate them,

and sanctify them,

that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.

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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 with her; and he did eat.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together,

and made themselves aprons.

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And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:

And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons,

when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation,

or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place;

that they bear not iniquity, and die:

it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.

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In the meantime the son of Moses the, waters are keepers of the House of the Lord, the Law?

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And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant,

whose mother's name was Zeruah,

a widow woman,

even he lifted up his hand against the king. . . .

. . . Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam.

And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom,

are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)

That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.

And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?

And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:

And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.

And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.

And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;

And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

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 Nebat.

So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

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Command the children

of Israel,

that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in;

and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.

And the cities shall they have to dwell in;

and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle,

and for their goods,

and for all their beasts.

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And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance,

at the commandment of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.

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And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.

For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession,

and came to Judah and Jerusalem:

for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the Lord:

And he ordained him priests for the high places,

and for the devils,

and for the calves which he had made.

And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came to Jerusalem,

to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah,

and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong,

three years:

for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah,

which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,

that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

And at the end of three years they took it:

even in the sixth year of Hezekiah,

that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,

Samaria was taken.

And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan,

and in the cities of the Medes:

Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God,

but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded,

and would not hear them,

nor do them.

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ISrael is scattered to this day but now hears the voice of the

Lord God

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And Jacob called unto his sons,

and said,

Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

Gather yourselves together,

and hear,

ye sons of Jacob;

and hearken unto Israel your father.

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