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“In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted.
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“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
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Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings.
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I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.
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How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)
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then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil.
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The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.
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But there are many people here and it is the rainy season; so we cannot stand outside. Besides, this matter cannot be taken care of in a day or two, because we have sinned greatly in this thing.
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You will come to the grave in full vigor, like sheaves gathered in season.
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but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.
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Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?
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That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.
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He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down.
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Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
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A Time for Everything
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
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Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
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They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’
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Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.
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I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.
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He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
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Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
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Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”
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You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
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Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
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Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
