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And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king’s gate.
The Vigil
Today’s scroll, one verse at a time — each linked to the last by the cross-references rather than by any model of you. The same vigil for everyone, and a different one tomorrow.
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
from Esther 2:19
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, with it to be content.
from Esther 5:13
For you had compassion of me in my chains, and took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
from Philippians 4:11 · a strong link
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Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
I was mute, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
from Leviticus 10:3
But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
from Psalms 39:9 · a strong link
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; constant in prayer;
from Job 2:10
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
from Romans 12:12 · a strong link
So that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.
from Psalms 16:9
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
from Psalms 30:12
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Now to him that is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight:
from Jude 1:24 · a strong link
Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, so that we should bring forth fruit to God.
from Colossians 1:22
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
from Romans 7:4
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
from Galatians 5:18
And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
from Romans 6:14
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Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
from Jude 1:11
These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
from Numbers 26:9 · a strong link
And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
from Numbers 1:16 · a strong link
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
from Exodus 18:25 · a strong link
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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Saying, Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
from Luke 2:14 · a strong link
Look, your house is left to you desolate: and truly I say to you, You shall not see me, until the time come when you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.
from Luke 19:38 · a strong link
And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
from Luke 13:35
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And shall not God give justice to his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them?
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
from Luke 18:7
And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
from I Timothy 5:5
As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
from Luke 18:1 · a strong link
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.
from Psalms 55:16
Then Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his apparel, and cast lots.
from Psalms 109:4
But I say to you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
from Luke 23:34 · a strong link
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If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives to the death.
from Luke 14:26 · a strong link
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
Do you not know that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, so that you may obtain.
from II Timothy 4:7
Holding out the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
from I Corinthians 9:24 · a strong link
As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
from Philippians 2:16
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Esther 2:19 along this chain. Today’s own vigil is laid separately.
Each verse follows the one before it along the chain a study Bible draws — a century old, public, and compiled by people arguing about Scripture rather than about how long you stay. Every card says which verse it came from and opens the chapter it belongs to. Today’s vigil is the same for every reader and is worked out from the date alone, so there is no account, no counter, and nothing stored in your browser or ours.
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