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reservoirs. Turn all the water to blood.
Everywhere in Egypt the water will
turn to blood, even the water stored
in wooden bowls and stone pots.’”
20 So
Moses and Aaron did just as
the Lord commanded them. As Pha
raoh and all of his officials watched,
Aaron raised his staff and struck the
water of the Nile. Suddenly, the whole
river turned to blood! 21 The fish in
the river died, and the water became
so foul that the Egyptians couldn’t
drink it. There was blood everywhere
throughout the land of Egypt. 22 But
again the magicians of Egypt used
their magic, and they, too, turned
water into blood. So Pharaoh’s heart
remained hard. He refused to listen
to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord
had predicted. 23 Pharaoh returned to
his palace and put the whole thing out
of his mind. 24 Then all the Egyptians
dug along the riverbank to find drinking water, for they couldn’t drink the
water from the Nile.
25 Seven days passed from the time
the Lord struck the Nile.
6:2 Yahweh is a transliteration of the proper name
YHWH that is sometimes rendered “Jehovah”; in this
translation it is usually rendered “the Lord” (note
the use of small capitals). 6:3 El-Shaddai, which
means “God Almighty,” is the name for God used in
Gen 17:1; 28:3; 35:11; 43:14; 48:3. 6:12 Hebrew I have
uncircumcised lips; also in 6:30. 7:9 Hebrew tannin,
which elsewhere refers to a sea monster. Greek
version translates it “dragon.” 7:14 Hebrew heavy.
MATTHEW 18:21–19:12
Then Peter came to him and asked,
“Lord, how o
ften should I forgive
someone* who sins against me? Seven
times?”
22 “No, not seven times,” J
esus replied, “but seventy times seven!*
23 “Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven
can be compared to a king who decided
to bring his accounts up to date with
servants who had borrowed money
from him. 24 In the process, one of his
debtors was brought in who owed him
millions of dollars.* 25 He couldn’t pay,
so his master ordered that he be sold—
along with his wife, his children, and
everything he owned—to pay the debt.
26 “But the man fell down before
his master and begged him, ‘Please,
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be patient with me, and I will pay it
all.’ 27 Then his master was filled with
pity for him, and he released him and
forgave his debt.
28 “But when the man left the king,
he went to a fellow servant who owed
him a few thousand dollars.* He
grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment.
29 “His fellow servant fell down before him and begged for a little more
time. ‘Be patient with me, and I will
pay it,’ he pleaded. 30 But his creditor
wouldn’t wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt
could be paid in full.
31 “When some of the other servants
saw this, they were very upset. They
went to the king and told him every
thing that had happened. 32 Then the
king called in the man he had forgiven
and said, ‘You evil servant! I forgave
you that tremendous debt because
you pleaded with me. 33 Shouldn’t you
have mercy on your fellow servant,
just as I had mercy on you?’ 34 Then
the angry king sent the man to prison
to be tortured until he had paid his
entire debt.
35 “That’s what my heavenly Father
will do to you if you refuse to forgive
your brothers and sisters* from your
heart.”
19:1 When J
esus had finished saying
these things, he left Galilee and went
down to the region of Judea east of the
Jordan River. 2 Large crowds followed
him there, and he healed their sick.
3 Some Pharisees came and tried to
trap him with this question: “Should a
man be allowed to divorce his wife for
just any reason?”
4 “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?”
Jesus replied. “They record that from
the beginning ‘God made them male
and female.’*” 5 And he said, “‘This
explains why a man leaves his father
and mother and is joined to his wife,
and the two are united into one.’*
6 Since they are no longer two but one,
let no one split apart what God has
joined together.”
7 “Then why did
Moses say in the
