He who made the (A)Pleiades and Orion,
    and turns deep darkness into the morning
    and (B)darkens the day into night,
who (C)calls for the waters of the sea
    (D)and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
(E)the Lord is his name;

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13 For behold, (A)he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
    and (B)declares to man what is his thought,
(C)who makes the morning darkness,
    and (D)treads on the heights of the earth—
    (E)the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

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who (A)made (B)the Bear and (C)Orion,
    the Pleiades (D)and the chambers of the south;

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(A)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
(B)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
(C)the Lord is his name.

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“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    (A)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.

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20 (A)You make darkness, and it is night,
    when all the beasts of the forest creep about.

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31 “Can you bind the chains of (A)the Pleiades
    or loose the cords of (B)Orion?
32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth[a] in their season,
    or can you guide (C)the Bear with its children?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:32 Probably the name of a constellation

22 He (A)uncovers the deeps out of darkness
    and brings (B)deep darkness to light.

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79 to (A)give light to (B)those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
    to guide our feet into (C)the way of (D)peace.”

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16 (A)the people dwelling in darkness
    have seen a great light,
and for those dwelling in the region and (B)shadow of death,
    on them a light has dawned.”

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16 (A)And I will lead the blind
    in a way that they do not know,
in paths that they have not known
    I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
    (B)the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I do,
    and I do not forsake them.

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10 (A)Some sat in darkness and in (B)the shadow of death,
    prisoners in (C)affliction and in irons,
11 for they (D)had rebelled against the words of God,
    and (E)spurned the counsel of the Most High.
12 So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor;
    they fell down, (F)with none to help.
13 (G)Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he delivered them from their distress.
14 He brought them out of (H)darkness and the shadow of death,
    and (I)burst their bonds apart.

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28 He (A)sent darkness, and made the land dark;
    they (B)did not rebel[a] against his words.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 105:28 Septuagint, Syriac omit not

You (A)covered it with the deep as with a garment;
    the waters stood above the mountains.
At (B)your rebuke they fled;
    at (C)the sound of your thunder they (D)took to flight.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
    to the place that you (E)appointed for them.
You set (F)a boundary that they may not pass,
    so that they (G)might not again cover the earth.

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34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
    that (A)a flood of waters may cover you?

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12 “Have you (A)commanded the morning since your days began,
    and caused the dawn to know its place,
13 that it might take hold of (B)the skirts of the earth,
    and the wicked be (C)shaken out of it?

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13 Whether for (A)correction or for his (B)land
    or for (C)love, he causes it to happen.

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44 And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, (A)a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’” 45 And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to (B)Jezreel.

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24 And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25 clogging[a] their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the (A)Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”

26 Then the Lord said to Moses, (B)“Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” 27 (C)So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea (D)returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord (E)threw[b] the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 28 The (F)waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, (G)not one of them remained.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 14:25 Or binding (compare Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac); Hebrew removing
  2. Exodus 14:27 Hebrew shook off

The Ninth Plague: Darkness

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be (B)darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but (C)all the people of Israel had light where they lived.

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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the (A)fountains of the great deep burst forth, and (B)the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. 15 They (C)went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in (D)as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.

17 The flood (E)continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits[a] deep.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 7:20 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

10 (A)We grope for the wall like the blind;
    we grope like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
    (B)among those in full vigor we are like dead men.

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