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And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your prostitution, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.
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.
He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
from Numbers 14:33
He pours contempt upon princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.
from Psalms 107:40 · a strong link
The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
from Job 12:21
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
from Isaiah 23:9
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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
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
from I John 5:11 · a strong link
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
from John 1:4 · a strong link
Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach to; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
from I John 1:5 · a strong link
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
from I Timothy 6:16 · 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:
Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
from Acts 13:38
Look, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
from Acts 5:31
And he said to them, This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.
from Jeremiah 31:31
As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit in which is no water.
from Mark 14:24
The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
from Zechariah 9:11 · a strong link
Go forth of Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.
from Isaiah 51:14
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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.
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
from Acts 17:31
Before the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
from Psalms 9:8
Say among the pagans that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
from Psalms 98:9
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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,
And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
from Acts 4:27 · a strong link
I give you charge in the sight of God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
from Matthew 27:2
And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
from I Timothy 6:13
For all the promises of God in him are yes, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us.
from Revelation of John 3:14 · a strong link
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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.
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
from Acts 7:51
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
from Romans 2:28 · a strong link
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
from Galatians 6:15 · a strong link
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by love.
from I Corinthians 7:19 · a strong link
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
from Galatians 5:6 · a strong link
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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
Of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power.
from Acts 9:15 · a strong link
If you have heard of the administration of the grace of God which is given me toward you:
from Ephesians 3:7
But to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
from Ephesians 3:2
To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, so that I should preach among the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ;
from Ephesians 4:7
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
from Ephesians 3:8
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Numbers 14:33 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