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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey in the distance, yet he shall keep the Passover to the LORD.
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.
Leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
from Numbers 9:10
Confess your sins to one another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
from Matthew 5:24
And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
from James 5:16 · 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.
And said to me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
from Leviticus 10:3
Look, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
from Isaiah 49:3
But emptied himself, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
from Isaiah 52:13
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 Philippians 2:7 · a strong link
For there is truly a setting aside of the commandment going before for the weakness and its unprofitableness.
from Romans 8:3
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw near to God.
from Hebrews 7:18
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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,
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
from Jude 1:24
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
from Ephesians 5:27
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
from Hebrews 9:14
And that he died for all, so that they which live should no longer live to themselves, but to him which died for them, and rose again.
from I Peter 4:2
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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.
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why he slew him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
from Jude 1:11 · a strong link
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
from I John 3:12
Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hate you.
from Proverbs 29:27
I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
from I John 3:13 · a strong link
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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
from Luke 2:14 · a strong link
And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
from Colossians 1:20 · a strong link
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
from II Corinthians 5:18
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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?
A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the director of music upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
from Luke 18:7 · a strong link
To the director of music upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.
from Psalms 88:1
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
from Psalms 53:1
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual immorality, murders,
from Psalms 10:4
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
from Mark 7:21 · a strong link
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
from Galatians 5:19
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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.
Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them as rubbish, so that I may win Christ,
from Luke 14:26 · a strong link
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
from Philippians 3:8
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
from I John 5:20
I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
from John 1:1 · 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.
from John 16:28
That is the whole thread.
Every verse the cross-references reach from Numbers 9:10 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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