18 For a majority of the people, (A)many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise (B)than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone

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15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And (A)if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, (B)confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, (C)that you may be healed. (D)The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:16 Or The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power

28 (A)Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

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19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. (A)Delay not, (B)for your own sake, O my God, because (C)your city and (D)your people are called by your name.”

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21 And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, (A)and when you hear, forgive.

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(A)Good and upright is the Lord;
    therefore he (B)instructs sinners in the way.

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25 The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, (A)and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.

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11 However, (A)some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

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20 “If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, (A)that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.

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10 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord. 11 (A)In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. (B)They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 (C)They shall leave none of it until the morning, (D)nor break any of its bones; (E)according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it. 13 But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, (F)that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the Lord's (G)offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin. 14 And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. (H)You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.”

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17 Then (A)Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

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Now then, return the man's wife, (A)for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you (B)and all who are yours.”

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16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and (A)God[a] will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. (B)There is sin that leads to death; (C)I do not say that one should pray for that.

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  1. 1 John 5:16 Greek he

68 (A)You are good and do good;
    (B)teach me your statutes.

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For you, O Lord, are good and (A)forgiving,
    (B)abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

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Now therefore take (A)seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and (B)offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall (C)pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.” (D)So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.

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18 (A)‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, (B)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ 19 Please (C)pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just (D)as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”

God Promises Judgment

20 Then the Lord said, “I have pardoned, (E)according to your word.

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The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, (A)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and (B)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast (C)love and faithfulness, (D)keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] (E)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but (F)who will by no means clear the guilty, (G)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” And Moses quickly (H)bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please (I)let the Lord go in the midst of us, for (J)it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for (K)your inheritance.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation

Institution of the Passover

43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44 but every slave[a] that is (A)bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 (B)No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and (C)you shall not break any of its bones. 47 (D)All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 (E)If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he (F)shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49 There shall be (G)one law for the native and for the (H)stranger who sojourns among you.”

50 All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. 51 And on that very day the (I)Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their (J)hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:44 Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
    your faithfulness to the clouds.

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