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  Deuteronomy 30-31


30:1 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,
30:2 and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,
30:3 then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.
30:4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.
30:5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.
30:6 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.
30:7 The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.
30:8 You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today.
30:9 Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers,
30:10 if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
30:11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
30:12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"
30:13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"
30:14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
30:15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
30:16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
30:17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,
30:18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
30:19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live
30:20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
31:1 Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel
31:2 "I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has said to me, "You shall not cross the Jordan."
31:3 The LORD your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also will cross over ahead of you, as the LORD said.
31:4 And the LORD will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he destroyed along with their land.
31:5 The LORD will deliver them to you, and you must do to them all that I have commanded you.
31:6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
31:7 Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their forefathers to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance.
31:8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."
31:9 So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
31:10 Then Moses commanded them
31:11 when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing.
31:12 Assemble the people-- men, women and children, and the aliens living in your towns-- so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.
31:13 Their children, who do not know this law, must hear it and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
31:14 The LORD said to Moses, "Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, where I will commission him." So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.
31:15 Then the LORD appeared at the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the Tent.
31:16 And the LORD said to Moses
31:17 On that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and difficulties will come upon them, and on that day they will ask, "Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is not with us?"
31:18 And I will certainly hide my face on that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.
31:19 "Now write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.
31:20 When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their forefathers, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant.
31:21 And when many disasters and difficulties come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath."
31:22 So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.
31:23 The LORD gave this command to Joshua son of Nun
31:24 After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,
31:25 he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD
31:26 "Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.
31:27 For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!
31:28 Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to testify against them.
31:29 For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall upon you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD and provoke him to anger by what your hands have made."
31:30 And Moses recited the words of this song from beginning to end in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel

  Mark 15


15:1 Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
15:2 "Are you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate. "Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.
15:3 The chief priests accused him of many things.
15:4 So again Pilate asked him, "Aren"t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of."
15:5 But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
15:6 Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested.
15:7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising.
15:8 The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
15:9 "Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate,
15:10 knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.
15:11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
15:12 "What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?" Pilate asked them.
15:13 "Crucify him!" they shouted.
15:14 "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
15:15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
15:16 The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers.
15:17 They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him.
15:18 And they began to call out to him, "Hail, king of the Jews!"
15:19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him.
15:20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
15:21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.
15:22 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull).
15:23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.
15:24 And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.
15:25 It was the third hour when they crucified him.
15:26 The written notice of the charge against him read
15:27 They crucified two robbers with him, one on his right and one on his left.
15:29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,
15:30 come down from the cross and save yourself!"
15:31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but he can"t save himself!
15:32 Let this Christ, this King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
15:33 At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"-- which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
15:35 When some of those standing near heard this, they said, "Listen, he's calling Elijah."
15:36 One man ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down," he said.
15:37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.
15:38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
15:39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"
15:40 Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.
15:41 In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.
15:42 It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached,
15:43 Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus" body.
15:44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died.
15:45 When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph.
15:46 So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
15:47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.