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Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
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.
Thus says the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby you shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
from Numbers 34:3
Command the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with its coasts:)
from Ezekiel 47:13
And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
from Numbers 34:2 · a strong link
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burial place with you, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
from Genesis 17:8
For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none remaining.
from Genesis 23:4 · a strong link
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As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
from I Corinthians 8:4
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to carved images.
from Isaiah 44:6 · a strong link
That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him.
from Isaiah 42:8
What? do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?
from John 5:23
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By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
from I John 3:16 · a strong link
Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own in the world, he loved them to the end.
We love him, because he first loved us.
from John 13:1
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But the anointing which you have received of him remains in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall remain in him.
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which is at work also in you that believe.
from I John 2:27
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
from I Thessalonians 2:13
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
from I Thessalonians 1:2
I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
from Colossians 1:3
But when the Helper has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:
from I Corinthians 1:4
This Jesus has God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.
from John 15:26
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And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, varieties of tongues.
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
from I Corinthians 12:28
For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
from Romans 12:6 · a strong link
And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
from I Corinthians 7:7
Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
from Acts 26:29
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
from Acts 21:33
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I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, who are present here, to offer willingly to you.
But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
from I Chronicles 29:17
And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and handsome: and there was not among the children of Israel a more handsome person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
from I Samuel 16:7
And they ran and fetched him from there: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
from I Samuel 9:2
And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
from I Samuel 10:23
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Clean out therefore the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:
The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
from I Corinthians 5:7
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
from John 1:29
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
from Acts 13:39 · a strong link
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Numbers 34:3 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