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  Deuteronomy 16-18


16:1 Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover of the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib he brought you out of Egypt by night.
16:2 Sacrifice as the Passover to the LORD your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for his Name.
16:3 Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste-- so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.
16:4 Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.
16:5 You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the LORD your God gives you
16:6 except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt.
16:7 Roast it and eat it at the place the LORD your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents.
16:8 For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the LORD your God and do no work.
16:9 Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.
16:10 Then celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the LORD your God has given you.
16:11 And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name-- you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, the Levites in your towns, and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows living among you.
16:12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees.
16:13 Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.
16:14 Be joyful at your Feast-- you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites, the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.
16:15 For seven days celebrate the Feast to the LORD your God at the place the LORD will choose. For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.
16:16 Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose
16:17 Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the LORD your God has blessed you.
16:18 Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the LORD your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.
16:19 Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
16:20 Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you.
16:21 Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the LORD your God,
16:22 and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the LORD your God hates.
17:1 Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.
17:2 If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant,
17:3 and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky,
17:4 and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,
17:5 take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.
17:6 On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
17:7 The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.
17:8 If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge-- whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults-- take them to the place the LORD your God will choose.
17:9 Go to the priests, who are Levites, and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict.
17:10 You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they direct you to do.
17:11 Act according to the law they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.
17:12 The man who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
17:13 All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.
17:14 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, "Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,"
17:15 be sure to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your own brothers. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not a brother Israelite.
17:16 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, "You are not to go back that way again."
17:17 He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
17:18 When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites.
17:19 It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees
17:20 and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.
18:1 The priests, who are Levites-- indeed the whole tribe of Levi-- are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the offerings made to the LORD by fire, for that is their inheritance.
18:2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
18:3 This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep
18:4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,
18:5 for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD's name always.
18:6 If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
18:7 he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the LORD.
18:8 He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.
18:9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
18:10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
18:11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
18:12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you.
18:13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
18:14 The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
18:15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.
18:16 For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die."
18:17 The LORD said to me
18:18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
18:19 If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account.
18:20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death."
18:21 You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?"
18:22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

  Mark 13


13:1 As he was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!"
13:2 "Do you see all these great buildings?" replied Jesus. "Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down."
13:3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately,
13:4 "Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are all about to be fulfilled?"
13:5 Jesus said to them
13:6 Many will come in my name, claiming, "I am he," and will deceive many.
13:7 When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
13:8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.
13:9 "You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.
13:10 And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.
13:11 Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
13:12 "Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
13:13 All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
13:14 "When you see "the abomination that causes desolation" standing where it does not belong-- let the reader understand-- then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
13:15 Let no one on the roof of his house go down or enter the house to take anything out.
13:16 Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak.
13:17 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!
13:18 Pray that this will not take place in winter,
13:19 because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now-- and never to be equaled again.
13:20 If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.
13:21 At that time if anyone says to you, "Look, here is the Christ!" or, "Look, there he is!" do not believe it.
13:22 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect-- if that were possible.
13:23 So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time.
13:24 "But in those days, following that distress, ""the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
13:25 the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken."
13:26 "At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
13:27 And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.
13:28 "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree
13:29 Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that it is near, right at the door.
13:30 I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
13:31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
13:32 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
13:33 Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come.
13:34 It's like a man going away
13:35 "Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back-- whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.
13:36 If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping.
13:37 What I say to you, I say to everyone