You shall not build a house, sow seed, plant a vineyard, nor have any of these; but all your days you shall dwell in tents, (A)that you may live many days in the land where you are sojourners.’

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10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

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(A)“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”

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14 And they found written in the Law, which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in (A)booths[a] during the feast of the seventh month, 15 and (B)that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and (C)in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and (D)bring olive branches, branches of oil trees, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

16 Then the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the (E)roof of his house, or in their courtyards or the courts of the house of God, and in the open square of the (F)Water Gate (G)and in the open square of the Gate of Ephraim.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 8:14 Temporary shelters

42 (A)You shall dwell in [a]booths for seven days. (B)All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, 43 (C)that your generations may (D)know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when (E)I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:42 tabernacles; shelters made of boughs

12 (A)“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be (B)long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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27 So the boys grew. And Esau was (A)a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was (B)a [a]mild man, (C)dwelling in tents.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 25:27 Lit. complete

Living Before the World

11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts (A)which war against the soul,

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By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, (A)dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, (B)the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for (C)the city which has foundations, (D)whose builder and maker is God.

11 By faith (E)Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and (F)she[a] bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him (G)faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as (H)dead, were born as many as the (I)stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

The Heavenly Hope

13 These all died in faith, (J)not having received the (K)promises, but (L)having seen them afar off [b]were assured of them, embraced them and (M)confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:11 NU omits she bore a child
  2. Hebrews 11:13 NU, M omit were assured of them

18 And (A)do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

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