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And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim on it.
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.
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
from II Chronicles 3:14
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the covering, and covered the ark of the covenant; as the LORD commanded Moses.
from Hebrews 9:3
And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, so that you may bring in there within the veil the ark of the covenant: and the veil shall divide to you between the holy place and the most holy.
from Exodus 40:21
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, in which was the lampstand, and the table, and the bread of the Presence; which is called the sanctuary.
from Exodus 26:33
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Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
And this is the testimony, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
from Acts 20:21
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
from I John 5:11
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral people, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
from Romans 6:23 · a strong link
For this you know, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor greedy man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
from Revelation of John 21:8 · a strong link
Envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and such like: of which I tell you before, as I have also told you formerly, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
from Ephesians 5:5 · a strong link
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Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
from Acts 13:38 · a strong link
Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, look, we turn to the Gentiles.
from Luke 24:47
Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
from Acts 13:46 · a strong link
Not for your sakes do I this, says the Lord GOD, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
from Acts 28:28
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the pagans, where you went.
from Ezekiel 36:32
Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your mercy, and for your truth’s sake.
from Ezekiel 36:22
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Because he has appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
from Acts 17:31
By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?
from Romans 2:16
Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
from Romans 3:6
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For truly against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
By stretching forth your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of your holy child Jesus.
from Acts 4:27 · a strong link
Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
from Acts 4:30
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
from Acts 3:6
And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he said to the Jews, Look, your King!
from John 19:19
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You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.
To a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you are a stiff-necked people: lest I consume you in the way.
from Acts 7:51
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
from Exodus 33:3 · a strong link
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which has come to me; and if not, I will know.
from Exodus 3:8
Go to, let us go down, and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.
from Genesis 18:21
The LORD shall bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;
from Genesis 11:7
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And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.
But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
from Acts 22:21 · a strong link
To which I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
from Acts 9:15
To which I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
from I Timothy 2:7 · a strong link
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor of which they affirm.
from II Timothy 1:11
But these, as irrational animals, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
from I Timothy 1:7 · a strong link
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as irrational animals, in those things they corrupt themselves.
from II Peter 2:12 · a strong link
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from II Chronicles 3:14 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.
The text is the Lantern Modern Standard. The links are openbible.info’s cross-reference set (CC BY), the same apparatus behind the reader’s Echoes drawer. Read a whole book · Today’s table