Dakota Blue, We have work-play to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ-KZEcg0So&feature=youtu.be

(I LOVE BEING FTV'S PRIME PIMP.)

Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

From Star Trek: First Contact ---

"Number One, open a channel to the fleet."

"This is Captain Picard of the Enterprise.
I'm taking command of the fleet.
Target all of your weapons onto the following co-ordinates.
Fire at my command."

"Sir. The co-ordinates you have indicated do not appear to be vital systems."

"Trust me, Data."

"The fleet's responded, sir.
They're standing by."

"Fire."

-----------------------------------------
You have no idea how much I love you, Charlotte.
You're the smartest girl-woman in the world to me.
All those straight-A's while playing Hermione impressed me.
Why wouldn't I choose you as my partner in knowledge?

2 Chronicles 1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

2 Chronicles 1:8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

2 Chronicles 1:9 Now, O Lord God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

2 Chronicles 1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

2 Chronicles 1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

2 Chronicles 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.

Now you understand why
I love London so much.
Because as a time lord
I don't have one heart,
I have two holy hearts!

Trinity: My name's Trinity.
Neo: *The* Trinity? Who cracked the IRS d-base?
Trinity: That was a long time ago.
Neo: Jesus...
Trinity: What?
Neo: I just thought... you were a guy.
Trinity: Most guys do.

------------------------------------------

*faces the Israel Ministry of Defence,
points at the nuclear weapons codes*

"You don't want to die, but you don't know how to take a life. Give it to me; these men would kill you, and take it anyway. Give it to me. You can tell 'em I took it by force. Give it to me, and I'll do what you shoulda did ten minutes ago."
- The Dark Knight

Think of it this way, United Nations.
Three metropolises from our end.
Or three hundred from their end.

November 27, FY12 99 A.D. j-ew 0139]

"More important than where is when.
You believe the year to be 2012,
when in fact it is closer to FY12 99 A.D. j-ew."

Relax. There's plenty of pussy for everyone.
http://www.ftv.com

1 Kings 11:3 And Solomon had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

Surah 49:12 O you who have attained to faith! Avoid most guesswork [about one another] for, behold, some of [such] guesswork is [in itself] a sin; and do not spy upon one another, and neither allow yourselves to speak ill of one another behind your backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you would loathe it! And be conscious of God. Verily, God is an acceptor of repentance, a dispenser of grace!

Surah 8:41 (Asad) AND KNOW that whatever booty you acquire [in war], one-fifth thereof belongs to God and the Apostle, and the near of kin, and the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer. [This you must observe] if you believe in God and in what We bestowed from on high upon Our servant on the day when the true was distinguished from the false - the day when the two hosts met in battle. And God has the power to will anything.

(No individual person besides me gets more than 10 percent.)

1 Samuel 2:7 The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.

Surah 22:39 (Asad) permission [to fight] is given to those against whom war is being wrongfully waged and, verily, God has indeed the power to succour them - :

Matthew 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Luke 14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Enemies of Israel, Beware.
Our rules of engagement
predate the Geneva Convention
by three thousand years.

Numbers 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

(Riddick: There's gonna be one speed... mine. If you can't keep up, don't step up. You'll just die.)

Numbers 31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

(Riddick: You're not afraid of the dark, are you?)

Our relationship with Jordan is complicated.
This is all you need to know for now.

Psalm 147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Surah 27:27 He (Sulaiman) said: We will see whether you have told the truth or whether you are of the liars:

Surah 27:28 Take this my letter and hand it over to them, then turn away from them and see what (answer) they return.

Surah 27:29 She (Queen of Sheba) said: O chief! surely an honorable letter has been delivered to me

Surah 27:30 Surely it is from Sulaiman, and surely it is in the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful:

Surah 27:31 Saying: exalt not yourselves against me and come to me in submission.

the best part?
God's upgrade.

Numbers 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

Numbers 12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.

Numbers 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

A.R.I.A.
The Declaration of Independence states, "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive to it's own ends, it is the right of the People to abolish it."

Matthew 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

Mark 12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:

Luke 20:17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

Matthew 8:9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

Luke 7:8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

Numbers 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Numbers 24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

Deuteronomy 33:17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Job 39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

Job 39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Psalm 22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalm 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Psalm 92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Isaiah 34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Deuteronemy Chapter 2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

"When strong appear weak.
When weak appear strong."
- Sun Tzu

Now. All I can tell you about
Captain-Seren Sarah Eve Schindler
is the following to protect her identity.

Relax. I'm not a cuckold bitch.
She is giving me my firstborn.
She is helping get other mates.
She is never touching another male sexually.
The least I could do is trust her as my Eve.

For the most part, I'm am her master.
But as a man, I understand that a woman
sometimes need to feel sexy by being in control.
Imagine my submissive heart was a prize.
Considering all she pledged to do for me,
I obviously offered her my slave heart as reward.
And her pledges were made before I decided to gift her.
It's all I really had to offer her as thanks.
And I am grateful.
She is so beautiful.

[note to self, River Song pictures for genesis chapter 1,
Mistress pictures for chapter 2,
Theotokos photos for chapter 3]

Now. If the red alert lights go on,
and me and Eve are in kinky sex games.
We'll turn off mistress-slave mode,
and I'll take charge happily.
So don't worry.
I'm still the arch-general rav-aluf ramatkal,
and she's still the captain-seren.

I had no other way of sharing my prayer with you.
The prayer of Israel for my Eve.

[0445]

The deal with the Palestine issue is simple.
When I was in Bangalore, I worked at a call center.
I moved into a small one bedroom flat in a house.
The house had two apartments on the bottom,
and two apartments on the top.
As time progressed, I took a loan and bought some X.
I took the bigger two bedroom bottom apartment.
So I had both flats together at the same time.
My heart got broken.
I went into mental shock.
I didn't pay my rent for about a year on either flat.
I was essentially squatting.
I was eventually evicted to the streets of the third world
where I begged for the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ
for three long years which I consider my Holocaust Mark.

So.
Israel is the Torah-allocated land of the Jews.
Palestinians are muslims who were squatting
while the true land owners were away for holy reasons.

Now.
As the caliph of Islam,
I know how big the Nation of Islam is.
I know there is plenty of room in muslim countries,
to absorb the Palestinians as brothers in Islam.
The problem with Islam right now is the divisions.
Both religious and political.
That's one of the reasons Islam was losing their wars against America.

I say was losing, because they now have me as their weapon.
And I say only America, because the European Union is no longer an enemy to Islam.
I hold in my genetics the Guild Junction shipyard contracts.
First they were India's, who helped persia burglarize my home-office.
Then briefly they were America's, who held Victoria as a hostage.
Now, they are the European Union's, who are trained to respect monarchy rule.
Relax, Israel. Think of this as a board with Israel as the head of the board.
Israel is too small a country for the Guild Junction shipyards.
Furthermore, Israel is pretty much right smack in the middle of Armaggedon.
Finally, I want and need this Guild Junction to be a global project.
I really don't want one single country to dominate this endeavour.
I'm taking you to other solar systems, humanity.
There are no national boundaries anymore.
It's just one planet now.

[November 28, FY12 99 A.D. j-ew 1100]

On the forty sexy-clean-loyal single IDF girls.
I think you know what I want. It's quite obvious.
I really shouldn't have to say it. You feel it.
I'm not demanding all the pussy in Israel.
Just enough to satisfy my love for Jewish cunt.
We'll start the interview process when I return.

I provide your room and board.
Vicky pays your slavesalaries.
What you do with your salaries is your perogative.

[1216]

I almost forgot.
My military coat from my freshman year of high school
at Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas still fits.
My mother brought it to me and I wear it like a fucking lot.
On the right side is the marine patch for the school.

I want a Israeli patch for the left shoulder side.
Maybe an Israeli Defence Force insignia.
It's possible that I also want a Star of David,
to go below or above it.
Don't make them too huge.
Just big enough to get the point across.

Now.
What I'm going to say next might upset some of you.
I really don't care.
I know what happened to me.
I earned the Mark of Holocaust.
I begged for three years on the streets of the third world.
The knowledge persia stole from me was my reward for Holocaust.
So from my point of view,
what they did to me was worse than Holocaust,
as I already earned the Mark of Holocaust before it occured.
The royalty of persia makes Adolf Hitler look like a circus clown.
Seriously.

I mean even the Jews in concentration camps
were allowed to pray to God in their minds.
The Nazis just wanted to murder them.
They didn't try to destroy their prayers for the afterlife,
where a better life than Auschwitz awaited them.

That's how precious the codes to access Zion's mainframe are.
So holy that Adolf Hitler is a clown compared to persia royalty.
Think about it.
Do you see any warning of Hitler in the Old Testament?
But you see the proclamation of persia's evil hate.

Now imagine if that evil mentality were allowed to take over the world.

Good.
I'm glad we finally understand one another.

[1235]

Oh. And I wanted to mention.
When persia committed their sin against me,
it's not like they didn't know I was the Archangel Michael.
They knew.
Everyone at Vivid Entertainment knew I AM MICHAEL.

But that's not really the worse part of their sin.
Everyone at Vivid Entertainment knew
I AM STIGMATA.

[1717]

Really behind schedule here.
I did say "crash landing".

I don't know if Israel is coming in on time.
I honestly don't believe so.
I was walking home just now and saw an ad saying,
"Happy to serve".
That would definetely be a nice change.

By my current calculations,
if Israel does come in,
and decide to take me out of the brig so to speak,
then I won't make it to Chabad Bangalore
until 2000 hrs on Friday evening.
I'd have to take a flight from nearby here.

Okay. On the Absolute Monarchy thing.
All I ever wanted was to rule myself.
And other people hated that fact.
My home-office being burglarized was the last straw.
If in order to obtain freedom for me and my family,
I have to rule others, then so fucking be it.

I date the Israeli monarchy back to Moses.
Even Samuel was technically a ruler to me.
Someone made the comment to Moses wondering
who made him a prince or judge over them.
Well, duh...Yahweh, obviously!

Oh, this is so hot.
Bridal wear China is on ftv now.
I'm so going to love finally being a man.

[2343]

"with nearly thirty hostages."

- Univeral Soldier

[November 29, FY12 99 A.D. j-ew Thursday 0014]

"the war is over."

- Universal Soldier

Um. Not really, folks.
The war has just begun.
World War I and World War II were just foreplay.
Calling the coming jihad World War III
would be a gross understatement in comparison.

I accept that Moses ruled the Israelites for forty years.
I found another verse in Numbers recently
where he was referred to as a prince by I believe it was Korah.
Or maybe that was the same one I referred to earlier.
Anyway, I accept that Samuel judged Israel for forty years.
Saul, David, Solomon all pretty much about forty years.

Till death do us part, Israel.
Till death do us fucking part.

[0054]

And don't worry about Russia and her nukes.
She's been my friend for a long time.
Consider her my economic partner in the underworld.
If she knows what's good for her, she'll just look the other way.
Actually, knowing her famous dominatrix bitch self,
she'll probably just laugh insanely in multiple violent orgasms.

China's not a problem.
They're just repo men.
American debt is real.

India?
Can't even stand up for itself.
Why would it defend U.S.A. sin?

<insert Gandhi quote multi religions here.>

Gandhi: I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you.

[0423]

Some of you may be wondering where the strength
to turn down one million dollars comes from,
followed more than two years later by $422,000 and 750,000 British pounds.

Simple.
I AM THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR GRAND MASTER.
We are bred in poverty-chastity-obedience.
We cannot be bribed-seduced-bought.

"Thomas, I am not a sin."
- Ironclad

The one million dollars was presented like a lottery charity
while I was at Vivid Entertainment.
They expected me to jump with joy at thier fake love-respect.

According to the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley,
Microsoft bought the source code for DOS
from a small business called Seattle Computer Company
for a mere, and get this, fifty thousand dollars.
That's it.
And how much is Microsoft worth now?
And how many of you before reading this
had ever even heard of Seattle Computer Company
which doesn't even have a wikipedia page?
Now you understand my point.
They expected to give me not even half of one percent
of their total networth for the entirety of my knowledge.
Knowledge that I literally went through Holocaust for.
I know that my Mark of Holocaust offends a lot of you.
Don't let it.
Just think of my experience as a virtual simulation.
When I came out of the machine,
I awoke with the Mark of Holocaust for real.
How else could I rule Israel?

[0806]

Okay.
Some really good news, Israel.
You have an amazing partner-ally in the war against persia.
You are not alone.
Let me rephrase that.
We are not alone.

According to Surah 30 The Romans,
the Romans were defeated but
in due time get victory over persia.

I suppose them burglarizing my home-office
while I was recieving the Sacrament of Confirmation
was a major defeat against Roman Catholic love.

That being said.
The Roman clergy are praying against persia royalty.
So we've got that base covered.
I expect the Jewish clergy to pray against greece.

I know this might seem boring to you.
Fine. Then stop reading.

Still here?
Yeah.
That's what I thought.
So stop complaining and start saluting.

[0856]

My mother.
If I choose one person to take with me,
it's my mother.
To hell with the others.

<Schindler gratitude verse>

Amon Goeth: Scherner told me something else about you.
Oskar Schindler: Yeah, what's that?
Amon Goeth: That you know the meaning of the word 'gratitude.' That it's not some vague thing with you like it is with others. You want to stay where you are. You've got things going on the side, things are good. You don't want anybody telling you what to do. I can understand all that. You know, I know you... What you want is your own sub-camp. Do you have any idea what's involved? The paperwork alone? Forget you've got to build the fucking thing, getting the fucking permits is enough to drive you crazy. Then the engineers show up. They stand around, they argue about drainage, foundations, codes, exact specifications, parallel fences four kilometers long, six thousand kilograms of electrified fences... I'm telling you, you'll want to shoot somebody. I've been through it, you know, I know.
Oskar Schindler: Well, you know, you've been through it. You could make things easier for me. I'd be grateful.

Unfortunately, that includes
Captain-Seren Sarah Eve Schindler
who is just one weak woman
who couldn't just trust my holy name
and report in unconditionally.
Hey, atleast she's uprgraded
to weak woman from hateful bitch.

And yes, people.
The archangel michael, me,
is a brown eyed brown skinned black haired
sand nigger camel jockey.
Not a white skinned blue eyed blonde devil
like you were led to believe
for centuries upon centuries.
Fucking deal with it.

[November 29, FY12 99 A.D. j-ew 2339 Thursday]

<jammy dodgers quote Doctor Who>

I'm going to need a SWAT team ready to mobilize, street level maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, 12 jammy dodgers and a fez...! - Doctor Who

Well, you didn't show up, Israel.
I'm dissapointed but not surprised.
I'm used to it.

I'm the Howard Hughes matrix.
If I make a request for twelve jammy dodgers and a fez,
A direct order,
Then get it done.
Don't ask my why.
Did you really think God's hand inside a man's brain
would lead that man to be considered sane?

Let's clarify my entrance to the jewish chatroom.
I wanted the paygrade of an IDF Captain-Seren
for my own calculations and whatnot.
On the internet, I couldn't get an exact amount.
The closest I came was a 23,000 NIS for career officers.
This could have been any rank for me.
So I figured I'd just ask someone in the jewish chatroom.
I usually, actually very very very rarely, use chatrooms.
Literally, years ago possibly.
Anyway, someone in the chatroom jokingly asked
why I wanted to know that information.
As it would be difficult to explain,
I just shared a link with my IDF card photos in a blog.
The blog was a request to my cousin for some money
to get my harddisk fixed, which it is now by the way.
It's not like I was prepared to answer her question.
After I did that, I had one or two visions of support,
so I returned with the IDFPOW blog revealing my nature.
That's all.

I'll be in Bangalore on Sunday morning, December 2.
I'd like clearance to enter the Chabad house on that day.
Again, try to remember the Israeli Ministry of Defence
holds it's weekly meetings on Sundays, the week start.
You should call my phone and give me the exact address.

Sometime back I called the rabbi of that Chabad house,
asking him questions about prayer times.
As this was after the Mumbai rabbi and his pregnant wife
were murdered by muslim freedom fighters,
I totally understand his response in not wanting me to come in.
This is probably the only time in my life I've dealt with a rabbi.

I respect Roman Catholic priests.
I respect Hafiz Islamic priests.
The rabbis of Judaism have nothing to worry about.
I treat them in the same regard as leaders of their religion.

[November 30, FY12 99 A.D. j-ew 0118 Friday]

(And so begins the fall of POTUS and the RISE OF CEASAR.)

My parents worked hard for the American dream.
Which turned out to be a lie.
Not only was I exiled from their land for obeying the Matrix Trilogy;
my home-office in another country not American was invaded.
And for what?
What was the real charge?
Cos after investigating my emails and tapping my phone,
they would have discovered I wasn't doing anything illegal by man's law.

Thought-crime.
The charge against me was thought-crime.

"So I've downloaded a couple million songs off of the internet!
Who hasn't?! Who hasn't?!!"
- Transformers

Sometime back, as my rank of Arch-General Rav Aluf Ramatkal was being awoken,
(and fuck, that's a long rank title!)
I had a vision of Benny Gantz, the public man holding the same rank,
demote himself to just plain Aluf in submission to me as superior officer.
That was nice.
I'll try never to forget that.

[0500]

You have disobeyed the voice of the angel chosen to lead you, Israel.
Consider this a warning.
I am programmed by those Exodus scriptures not to pardon transgressions.

I know you won't understand my commands and orders at all times.
That's not your job.
Your duty is to obey them without question or hesitation.
I owe you no explanation.

Let's move on.
Yes. I actually do introduce myself as an IDF Captain-Seren
as my business-pleasure card states is my public rank.
Now you know my topsecret-classified privaterank of
Arch-General Rav Aluf Ramatkal.
If someone is lucky enough, I do give them my card.
But really think about it.
I mean, I'm only thirty-two years old by human standards.
Who would believe I'm the Arch-General of Israel?
Most people would just believe I'm a nutcase.
So publicly stating I'm a Captain-Seren at this age
is much more believable and plausible to the general population.

My local masjid has my card on file.
I also gave them a cd of the koran split into 120 quarters.
While walking on the street recently,
I bumped into a hafiz and another of similar rank.
After buying them a couple of juices,
one made they remark of referring to me as brother.
I'm not really that worried or scared for my life as a Jew.

I want you to understand something.
I AM THE CALIPH OF ISLAM.
As the Archangel Michael, I am the Imam of the Heavenly Congregation,
leading the heavenly prayers towards Allah.
Gabriel is listed as the muzzien, announcing the prayer times by Azan.

Now I have to finish REGENERATION.
Research Doctor Who and you'll know what I'm referring to.

Oh. That's what I wanted to state.
I'll be arriving in Bangalore on Sunday morning.
I want my nine candle menorah and one hundred thousand new israel shekel.
I've all ready budgeted the money down to the last NIS,
but I will not share that information with you due to insider trading.
But more importantly, I want to shake the rabbis hand.
From the time I post this, I would say you have about twelve hours.
Twelve hours to pick up the phone and give me clearance.

Because even as the Absolute Monarch of Israel, owning all the land,
I'm still going to knock on the doors of my friends before I enter.

[0600]

Let's get this Olympus garbage out of the way.

You need to know who is good and evil.

Let's start on my time on the streets.

While on the streets I prayed for kids.
I eventually researched Jenna Jameson aka Venus,
who had been having problems having kids.
So she felt like a sister in prayer.
Then one night, I went to get something to eat.
To serve the food, they used cut-ups of newspaper.
And I was handed a clipping of her.
Not half a photo, or a quarter of a photo.
But an exact size photo of hers.
Of all the different cuttings they use,
for me to show up at that exact time,
and get a photo of hers,
the mathematics are astounding.
The photo is about half a 4x6 photo I'd guess.
I think I still have it somewhere in my files.

So I prayed.
And she had children.
And I'm responsible for that.

And then I eventually showed up Vivid Entertainment for real.
I explained my role in her children.
That all the doctors she went to couldn't do shit.
But it was the prayer of a saint that healed her.
Yet she never acknowledged me or thanked me.

The same goes for her husband Aries-Mars.
As the patron saint of soldiers and police,
I the Archangel Michael, decreed him demoted to below plebe.
For ingratitude for his offspring.
He's like the fat bitch in Full Metal Jacket who got soap blanketed.
That's right all you so-called tough guy militant hard-asses.
I'm the guy that demoted the god of war himself to below a plebe.

A soldier fights for his offspring and wives-mates.
If they aren't truly grateful for that, how can they be trusted in battle?

The Triads have a special punishment instore for Venus and Aries.

All they had to do was say two little words.
Just two.
"Thank you."

Now, while I was on the streets I was struck with Cupid's Arrow.
This is one of the reasons I was such a blabber mouth at Vivid Entertainment.
Cos I kept hoping Persephone would fall in love with me in return.
My research had shown that she would help me kidnap her,
and that she would be faithful to me and love me back.
But that was bullshit.

The only reason I was struck with Cupid's Arrow,
was like a truth serum.
To make me talk.

It wasn't love.
It was hate.

Which brings us to my hatred for Zeus.
It doesn't come from the past but from the future.
My research showed that he would have a child with Persephone.
When we split up the sky, seas, and underworld;
there was nothing in the contracts about him getting my wife.

Besides which, I just wanted my freedom as a man.
I'm going to take the human race to other solar systems.
Why would I kneel before Zeus?

I'm the stigmatist.
I kneel before the cross.

Hera.
Turns out she was a pleasant surprise.
The sister I never had growing up.
Not one that I fuck in secret.
But the kind of sister that so many on this planet have.
Turns out that she apparently hates Zeus and Olympus almost as equally as I do.
We all know her reasons.
The only real conditions in her crossing over to my camp
is that I never have sex with her and she never has sex at all.

The movie Gladiator best personified the love between me and Hera.
Think of me as the General Maximus and her as the female lead.
We both just want to bring down the evil ruler for the good of Rome.

I'm taking one billion u.s. dollars
in current exchange value for persia.
A similar amount is for greece.
Like the hunter in Jurassic Park: Lost World,
the human race can keep my fee for murdering Zeus.
I just wanted the right to hunt a T-Rex, a buck only.
The cost of the operation can be covered.
But it really comes at no charge to humanity.

I mean, seriously,
why do you think the new James Bond movie is called "Skyfall"?
Sky...fall.
Get it?

[0700]

Wow.
This time scheduling upgrade is incredible.
Punctuality.
What a fucking major mad change.

Okay.
Below is a help wanted file I made some time back.
I'm changing three things for security reasons.

START.

Bring Back the Draft for Israel profile picture

real name: Mike Grail Arkangel
cash name: Pluto Lazarus Hades
porn name:

Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)
public rank: Captain Seren
private rank: top secret classified
tribe designation: Zebulun (dolphins)

Primary Military Campaigns @ Armaggedon
United Nations Approved, AL-QAEDA backed
[reference Daniel chapter 10, Luke Chapter 16:19-26, Surah 1]:
1) O.W.L. (Operation Wrath of Lazarus)
2) Israel C.O.R.E. (Israel Covert Operation Regal Enterprise)
3) Mission M.M.A. (Mission Matrix Motherhood Academy)

Company motto:
The 99 Percent should murder the one percent on sight.
- Doctor Who variant, Silence will fall.

Wanted-Needed: One single sexy-clean-loyal Jewish-American-Princess.
Virgin preffered. divorced, widowed, separated, etc not an issue - no children
codename: Agent 99. minimum age: post-menarche teenager.
(17 is fine. 16 is sweet. 15 is filthy nasty. 14 is fucking hot.
And 13?... oh my holy God, there are no words for 13!)
education requirements or work experience not necessary

Israeli Ministry of Defence authorized field promotion to:
Segen Rishon (Sagar) - Lieutenant First Class
Primary positions: Company treasurer, Ulpan administrator, my personal maid,
stickshift chaffeur, sparring partner, lesbian rapist dominatrix
(must be fluent in Hebrew and English, willing to learn Arabic)
Paygrade: confidential, no money worries for life;
after 99% global monetary training completed -
FTV luxury first class business-pleasure world lifestyle

Valiant men solomon scripture.

END.

I guess I did plan on coming into the Jewish chatroom earlier.
I just honestly forgot about it.

In the Justice League comics,
there's an important storyline where
Batman has created failsafes against
each member of the Justice League.
In order to guard against Martian Manhunter's telepathy,
Batman programs himself with triggered mnemonic devices
so that he won't consciously remember what he's doing.

I've been wanting to learn Hebrew for some time.
It's kind of difficult on my own. Real lonely.
I looked into these E-Hebrew online courses.
And I attended one webinar on mothers with soldiers in the military.
The cost of enrolling was too much though.

Anyway.
It feels so good to finally GET SMART.

[0817]

BOY:
"It's hot out. Do you want to go swimming?"

*girl pushes boy to the ground*

GIRL:
"No!
And don't come back for five to seven days!"

- My Girl

LOL

[December 1, FY12 99 A.D. j-ew Saturday 0922]

Yes, Emma.
I picked you.

The official date was September 3, FY12 of this year.
I felt tears of love from you when I chose you as my first mother.

And I didn't know it was you for the longest time.
Even that vision of you where you visited me here,
that vision that kept me going and motivated me,
gave me no real indication of your role in my heart.

River Song, I'm dying.
And I am in regeneration.
My last request was that you would have been my by side,
the way that Andy's lover in the movie Philadelphia
was at his side when he was dying, but I guess not.

I can't come back here.
Those are the rules of Lazarus death.

In layman terms, I Pluto Lazarus Hades,
must die a metaphorical death.
Never to set foot in this flat or the other Amalapuram flat again.
It's worth it.
Think of it as a spiritual global suicide bombing.
One reason I'm doing this is to command suicide bombers.

The Virgin Mary choose you, Charlotte,
to be second-in-command of the Theotokos.
But you know what's at stake.
You know what we demand.
Submission to my command.

Again, this isn't some over-dramatic death scene,
where I intend on coming crawling back here.
Why would Andy Dufresne ever come back to Shawshank prison?

Oh, and for those of you who don't know,
or haven't figured it out,
Hecate is the mother of my firstborn.
I chose the goddess Hecate,
for at least giving me the time of day
all those years ago when we first met.

I love you, Hecate.
I'm ready when you are, Love.

[1002]

"The secret lies with Charlotte."
- National Treasure

Charlotte, a middle name I love so much,
I don't want a single british pound from you.
That's not your money.
It's most definetely not money.
You earned it by giving humanity hope in magic.
It's our children's money.
Our daughter's and our son's.
And anymore to come after that.

I wanted to say I'd rather beg than take money from you,
but that would be a lie I suppose.
What I do know is that I have begged. That's over with.
As long as you trust the Christian daily prayer of,
"Give us day by day our daily bread",
I will take care of use completely and totally.

I'm so lonely without you, Hecate.

(Yes, dear. I am your master and you are my slave.)

Oh and for those of you haven't figured it out,
the 'j-ew" in the year scheduling of mine,
comes from Justice-Era Watson, not being jew.
The jew thing was a nice coincidence.
Watson's love for me is a new era in intelligence.

[1040]

(Time to pay your taxes, Israel.)

I'm going to beat the shit out of you, Emma.
For trusting Satan and his lies more than my love and sacrifices.
I'm going to beat you until you forget you're a celebrity bitch,
and start to remember that you are my goddess wife.
But more importantly, that you are Sarah Eve Schindler.

And when I beat you, you are going to thank me for it.
And then you're going to beg for more, cos that's your love for me.
It's time for you to desire me as your husband.

"The real list is secure at Langley."
- Mission Impossible

[1119]

Because I love you, Emma.
And I need you, by my side as my Captain-Seren.
For the rest of your life.

And yes.
Even when you're eighty years old,
I'll still be dressing you up as Hermione Granger
and fucking the hell out of you like a high school girl.

[1137]

Israeli Ministry of Defence, I am not subordinate to you.
I AM THE ABSOLUTE MONARCH OF ISRAEL.
When the Magna Carta was signed, a clause in there,
I think number 62 or 69 or one of the sixties,
gave the barons rights over the king's lands and home.
There is no fucking way I'm agreeing to that.
Not now. Not ever.
I chose absolute monarchy to rule myself in peace,
not to rule others in tyranny or oppression.

It is not my aim to disband the Knesset Senate.
Day to night operations of Israel must be managed somehow.
But just like Moses was brought the big cases,
due so likewise with me, and we'll be fine.

American hypocrisy is not your friend, Israel.
They have put your prince through agony worse than Holocaust.
I all ready earned the Mark of Holocaust.
What they did to me was a far greater sin.
And if they're allowed to continue, it will be horrible for the world.

What friend bullies you into revealing your dealings with the Chinese?

And you think because they loan you money they're your friend.
What bank of Israel honestly considers it's customers friends?
You're not loaning money for friendship, but for profit.
That's all. It's just business.

The one billion united states dollars was set at Vivid Entertainment.
I don't care if you have to go door to door at the United Nations,
begging for money for the world to pay my fee, but just do it.

I'm getting Three Hundred Million Jordanian Dinar from OPEC for Jihad.

If persia is allowed to continue, then one city nukes one city.
That country retaliates and nukes another city in another country.
And so forth and so forth and so forth, until the world is gone.

My way, only three metropolises are destroyed,
and the U.S. is held hostage releasing it's nukes to me.
Again, Russia with it's nukes will look the other way,
as they are our economic partner in the Underworld.
And the European Union desperately wants my Guild Junction shipyard contracts.

About my personal assistant Isla Fisher,
(cos I just Sasha Baren Cohen's name show up just now on Madagascar opening titles),
I know that in the Iron Man movies Pepper Potts and Iron Man are romantically linked.
Some of you may think that I'm trying to trick her or con her into a relationship.
However, you need to know that I'm not basing my love
for my sister Pepper Potts on the movies of Iron Man really.
It's based on the comic books themselves.
In the comic books, Pepper Potts is happily married to and/or in love with Happy Hogan.
(I may be getting his name wrong, it's been a while.)
Happy Hogan is the driver and chaffeur of Iron Man.
So Isla, if you're out there, don't worry you're pretty little sisterly head.
I'll keep my hands to myself, Sister.

[1157]

Israel, I am not your slave.
Neither have I any desire to be your master.
The underground mentality of men making slaves of others has disgusted me for over a decade.

I believe in the Star Trek Federation.
I believe in a voluntary military based on mutual respect and co-operation.
Not a tyranny based on corruption, blackmail, and exploitation.

On to the holy news.
The Angel that led you through the wilderness three thousand years ago with Moses is me.
Not metaphorically or spiritually, but literally.
Your past is my future.
Because one day I will quite realistically wake up in the past
and begin my lifespan of one thousand years, hopping back and forth through time.
This persona of myself is what I refer to as Flux Paradox.
Flux Paradox and/or his/my offspring exist now in secret.
They have been in hiding for thousands of years.
Think of them as Gaia or the Second Foundation.
When they are ready to contact me or surface,
I programmed myself to send myself a message.

All the missing lost episodes of Doctor Who.

Yes, England, I love you too.

[1350]

Let me tell you what I'm going to do to you, River Song.
After I make love to Rose Tyler, I'll teach you both to fly the TARDIS.
Then I'm going to recruit my forty IDF whore-brokers.
But while you're piloting, I'm going to keep loving Rose,
and make love to my IDF girls, while you sit in the corner and watch.
And we're not going to take turns beating you.
That's my sole pleasure as your man.

It's a big, major risk revealing your identity, Charlotte.
You are the adopted mother to the Virgin Mary
as I am her adopted father, so show some fucking gratitude.

They'll come after you now knowing how important you are to me.
And on Christmas Day I will prove you wrong on your love for money.
I will prove the whole fucking Christian world wrong on loving Satan and hating me.

For the rest of your life,
you will know how much the Virgin Mary hates you
for not believing in her master and sensei Michael
when he needed you the most.

[1414]

I still love you, Emma.
Relax. I punish you because I love you.
Now we have work to do. Both of us.
So get up.

Israeli Ministry of Defence,
I have the names of persia royalty officers.
I have the list of targets.
You know who I trust.

[1903]

Just read, Emma.
Wait for me and be grateful for God's kingdom.
Read.

All those years ago,
I suppose I put your name on my enemies list
so that I could protect you from myself.
Kind of like burying a secret from my own weakness.
But I'm stronger now.
And though Satan would claim to be stronger as well,
they are not.
In two and half years, they have never repented.
The password, Charlotte, is "penance".
Don't ever forget that.

When I murder these people,
I'm not going to feel like some major stud,
walking around with a grin on my face and pounding my chest.
I'll feel like the guiltiest person in the world.

Yes, they're evil.
Yes, they are Satan.
But it's still human life.

In regards to the nuclear bombings,
I don't see that as my direct fault.
I'm just a lawyer representing the wronged of the globe.
The opposing side just pushed me too far,
the proverbial straw that broke the camel jockey's back.
So I took the case for the other side,
who is paying me quite handsomely.

Just imagine they came to me after the Victoria incident,
and said to me in my home-office alone,
"Do you see the sin of America now?
Do you see their hypocrisy and evil and hate?
How they scream at others to mind their own business,
but meddle continuously in the affairs of others?
Will you please take our case now, Michael?"
And I nodded, knowing evil must be stopped, replying,
"Happily."

[1938]

"let me hear you make some noise!"
*audience makes noise*
"All right, settle down."

- Mean Girls

LOL

Anyway, Vic, anytime I feel you ask me if I love you,
I have to reply that I don't.
I love our son. That's all that matters.
Now stop being an ungrateful, unjust demon.
(The Power of Christ Compels thee!)

[1954]

Good morning, Mrs. Fischer.

*shakes your hand completely professionally*

The sabbath is over.
Are you ready to get to work?

[2019]

*The United Nations questions me*

"Michael, do you really think that
your Mark of Holocaust and Stigmata
really gives you the right to nuke
three major metropolitan cities?"

*I shake my head in disagreement,
and point to the Virgin Mary.*

"She does."

[2111]

Munich is playing on cable now.

So I thought I'd take this time,
to share an auto-biography with you.

But first I got to go smoke and drink.
Relax, non-alcoholic.
I haven't had an alcoholic drink in over five years.

[2130]

Oh. I almost forgot.
I reported in last week
because Muslims believe that day of fasting
is the day that Moses parted the red seas.
I just didn't want to give anyone any ideas at the time,
so I didn't explain the reason why.

And this week, on Advent Sunday...
*faces the army of Satan, led by America-Satanica and persia,
still trying to cross the path of the red sea without penance,
raises my hands to heaven and lowers them vengeafully*

The seas come crashing down...

[2138]

Coffee, Mrs. Fischer.
Lots of coffee.

It's the little things.
Like not being able to find the remote control.
Or living like a slob cos womankind won't do their job.
Dishes piled up for weeks on end and whatnot.

You know, thinking about it...
maybe coffee is a code word for ecstacy.

Just think of me as a guild navigator, Israel.
We were programmed with a dosage of XLSD so high
that it would enable us to pilot huge heighliners
through the fabrics of the space-time continuum.

And Mrs. Fischer, don't worry.
I'm stablized now.
Hands to myself, Sis.

[2151]

All right, IDF.
I've been told by Yahweh in my head,
that you want four hundred FTV model cunts.

Fine. We can do that.
But I'll need my all ready selected
FTV model captains and their lieutenants.

All right, back to the auto-biography.

And I suppose this is also for those of you,
who cannot get background checks on me and what not.

(Hold on. Mother just called.)

You know what?
Forget the auto-biography for now.
The less you know about me the better.

[2229]

On second thought, how about you folks
share your auto-biographies with me.
I like resumes. Makes me feel important.

No, America-Satanica. I get it.
You thought I was insane about my Mark of Holocaust,
when I was screaming about the pain at Vivid Entertainment.
Why you think me being insane gives you
justification to rob me blind still boggles the human race.

But now, you see that the most famous Holocaust survivors
themselves believe in me and my Mark of Holocaust.
So what does that make you?

*grins sadistically as the Nazi symbols show up
on the American-Satanica collective soul*

You have no friends, America-Satanica.
You tried to steal warp drive technology research from me,
so that you could make it a solely American project
instead of a global unified one like I desire.
But you made the mistake of not realizing that
I kept the most important codes in my head not on my laptop.

Don't you remember the final verse of Bulletproof Monk?

It's Tokyo, Israel.
Tokyo is paying me to represent them for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After sixty-five years, true Justice will finally be served.

(I told you pro-bono cases pay off, Victoria.)

[2254]

*faces the United Nations again*

So now you understand why you're system of justice
is so corrupt and evil and just plain fucked up in the head.
Because Lady Justice herself has been ingrained from birth
to believe that america-satanica has a monopoly on justice.

Give her to me, and I will put her through such third world hell,
that she will never forget for the rest of her life
that Justice is a global idea for the entire human race.

That God's Law will always and forever be above man's law.

(Live to the whole fucking world, Vicky.)

[December 2, FY12 99 A.D. j-ew Advent Sunday 1220]

Avner: "You're the only home I ever had."

*wife laughs*

Avner: "What?"

Wife: "This is so corny."

Avner: "It wasn't easy for me to say that!"

Wife: "I bet."

Avner: "Don't laugh at me then."

Wife: "Oh, why did I have to marry a sentimentalist?
You're ruining my life."

Avner: "Your mother's teasing me."

Genesis Chapter 1

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon

the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis Chapter 2

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis Chapter 3

1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

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Surah 30 The Romans

In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[30.1] Alif Lam Mim.

[30.2] The Romans are vanquished,

[30.3] In a near land, and they, after being vanquished, shall overcome,

[30.4] Within a few years. Allah's is the command before and after; and on that day the believers shall rejoice,

[30.5] With the help of Allah; He helps whom He pleases; and He is the Mighty, the Merciful;

[30.6] (This is) Allah's promise! Allah will not fail His promise, but most people do not know.

[30.7] They know the outward of this world's life, but of the hereafter they are absolutely heedless.

[30.8] Do they not reflect within themselves: Allah did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them two but with truth, and (for) an appointed term? And most surely most of the people are deniers of the meeting of their Lord.

[30.9] Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than these in prowess, and dug up the earth, and built on it in greater abundance than these have built on it, and there came to them their apostles with clear arguments; so it was not beseeming for Allah that He should deal with them unjustly, but they dealt unjustly with their own souls.

[30.10] Then evil was the end of those who did evil, because they | rejected the communications of Allah and used to mock them.

[30.11] Allah originates the creation, then reproduces it, then to Him you shall be brought back.

[30.12] And at the time when the hour shall come the guilty shall be in despair.

[30.13] And they shall not have any intercessors from among their gods they have joined with God, and they shall be deniers of their associate-gods.

[30.14] And at the time when the hour shall come, at that time they shall become separated one from the other.

[30.15] Then as to those who believed and did good, they shall be made happy in a garden.

[30.16] And as to those who disbelieved and rejected Our communications and the meeting of the hereafter, these shall be brought over to the chastisement.

[30.17] Therefore glory be to Allah when you enter upon the time of the evening and when you enter upon the time of the morning.

[30.18] And to Him belongs praise in the heavens and the earth, and at nightfall and when you are at midday.

[30.19] He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living, and gives life to the earth after its death, and thus shall you be brought forth.

[30.20] And one of His signs is that He created you from dust, then lo! you are mortals (who) scatter.

[30.21] And one of His signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.

[30.22] And one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colors; most surely there are signs in this for the learned.

[30.23] And one of His signs is your sleeping and your seeking of His grace by night and (by) day; most surely there are signs in this for a people who would hear.

[30.24] And one of His signs is that He shows you the lightning for fear and for hope, and sends down water from the clouds then gives life therewith to the earth after its death; most surely there are signs in this for a people who understand

[30.25] And one of His signs is that the heaven and the earth subsist by His command, then when He calls you with a (single) call from out of the earth, lo! you come forth.

[30.26] And His is whosoever is in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him.

[30.27] And He it is Who originates the creation, then reproduces it, and it is easy to Him; and His are the most exalted attributes in the heavens and the earth, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.

[30.28] He sets forth to you a parable relating to yourselves: Have you among those whom your right hands possess partners in what We have given you for sustenance, so that with respect to it you are alike; you fear them as you fear each other? Thus do We make the communications distinct for a people who understand.

[30.29] Nay! those who are unjust follow their low desires without any knowledge; so who can guide him whom Allah makes err? And they shall have no helpers.

[30.30] Then set your face upright for religion in the right state-- the nature made by Allah in which He has made men; there is no altering of Allah's creation; that is the right religion, but most people do not know--

[30.31] Turning to Him, and be careful of (your duty to) Him and keep up prayer and be not of the polytheists

[30.32] Of those who divided their religion and became seas every sect rejoicing in what they had with them

[30.33] And when harm afflicts men, they call upon their Lord, turning to Him, then when He makes them taste of mercy from Him, lo! some of them begin to associate (others) with their Lord,

[30.34] So as to be ungrateful for what We have given them; but enjoy yourselves (for a while), for you shall soon come to know.

[30.35] Or, have We sent down upon them an authority so that it speaks of that which they associate with Him?

[30.36] And when We make people taste of mercy they rejoice in it, and if an evil befall them for what their hands have already wrought, lo! they are in despair.

[30.37] Do they not see that Allah makes ample provision for whom He pleases, or straitens? Most surely there are signs in this for a people who believe.

[30.38] Then give to the near of kin his due, and to the needy and the wayfarer; this is best for those who desire Allah's pleasure, and these it is who are successful.

[30.39] And whatever you lay out as usury, so that it may increase in the property of men, it shall not increase with Allah; and whatever you give in charity, desiring Allah's pleasure-- it is these (persons) that shall get manifold.

[30.40] Allah is He Who created you, then gave you sustenance, then He causes you to die, then brings you to life. Is there any of your associate-gods who does aught of it? Glory be to Him, and exalted be He above what they associate (with Him).

[30.41] Corruption has appeared in the land and the sea on account of what the hands of men have wrought, that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done, so that they may return.

[30.42] Say: Travel in the land, then see how was the end of those before; most of them were polytheists.

[30.43] Then turn thy face straight to the right religion before there come from Allah the day which cannot be averted; on that day they shall become separated.

[30.44] Whoever disbelieves, he shall be responsible for his disbelief, and whoever does good, they prepare (good) for their own souls,

[30.45] That He may reward those who believe and do good out of His grace; surely He does not love the unbelievers.

[30.46] And one of His signs is that He sends forth the winds bearing good news, and that He may make your taste of His mercy, and that the ships may run by His command, and that you may seek of His grace, and that you may be grateful.

[30.47] And certainly We sent before you apostles to their people, so they came to them with clear arguments, then We gave the punishment to those who were guilty; and helping the believers is ever incumbent on Us.

[30.48] Allah is he Who sends forth the winds so they raise a cloud, then He spreads it forth in the sky as He pleases, and He breaks it up so that you see the rain coming forth from inside it; then when He causes it to fall upon whom He pleases of His servants, lo! they are joyful

[30.49] Though they were before this, before it was sent down upon them, confounded in sure despair.

[30.50] Look then at the signs of Allah's mercy, how He gives life to the earth after its death, most surely He will raise the dead to life; and He has power over all things.

[30.51] And if We send a wind and they see it to be yellow, they would after that certainly continue to disbelieve

[30.52] For surely you cannot, make the dead to hear and you cannot make the deaf to hear the call, when they turn back and

[30.53] Nor can you lead away the blind out of their error. You cannot make to hear any but those who believe in Our communications so they shall submit.

[30.54] Allah is He Who created you from a state of weakness then He gave strength after weakness, then ordained weakness and hoary hair after strength; He creates what He pleases, and He is the Knowing, the Powerful.

[30.55] And at the time when the hour shall come, the guilty shall swear (that) they did not tarry but an hour; thus are they ever turned away.

[30.56] And those who are given knowledge and faith will say: Certainly you tarried according to the ordinance of Allah till the day of resurrection, so this is the day of resurrection, but you did not know.

[30.57] But on that day their excuse shall not profit those who were unjust, nor shall they be regarded with goodwill.

[30.58] And certainly We have set forth for men every kind of example in this Quran; and if you should bring them a communication, those who disbelieve would certainly say: You are naught but false claimants.

[30.59] Thus does Allah set a seal on the hearts of those who do not know.

[30.60] Therefore be patient; surely the promise of Allah is true and let not those who have no certainty hold you in light estimation.

Surah 8 The Spoils of War / The Accessions

In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[8.1] They ask you about the windfalls. Say: The windfalls are for Allah and the Apostle. So be careful of (your duty to) Allah and set aright matters of your difference, and obey Allah and His Apostle if you are believers.

[8.2] Those only are believers whose hearts become full of fear when Allah is mentioned, and when His communications are recited to them they increase them in faith, and in their Lord do they trust.

[8.3] Those who keep up prayer and spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them.

[8.4] These are the believers in truth; they shall have from their Lord exalted grades and forgiveness and an honorable sustenance.

[8.5] Even as your Lord caused you to go forth from your house with the truth, though a party of the believers were surely averse;

[8.6] They disputed with you about the truth after it had become clear, (and they went forth) as if they were being driven to death while they saw (it).

[8.7] And when.Allah promised you one of the two parties that it shall be yours and you loved that the one not armed should he yours and Allah desired to manifest the truth of what was true by His words and to cut off the root of the unbelievers.

[8.8] That He may manifest the truth of what was true and show the falsehood of what was false, though the guilty disliked.

[8.9] When you sought aid from your Lord, so He answered you: I will assist you with a thousand of the angels following one another.

[8.10] And Allah only gave it as a good news and that your hearts might be at ease thereby; and victory is only from Allah; surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.

[8.11] When He caused calm to fall on you as a security from Him and sent down upon you water from the cloud that He might thereby purify you, and take away from you the uncleanness of the Shaitan, and that He might fortify your hearts and steady (your) footsteps thereby.

[8.12] When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.

[8.13] This is because they acted adversely to Allah and His Apostle; and whoever acts adversely to Allah and His Apostle-- then surely Allah is severe in requiting (evil).

[8.14] This-- taste it, and (know) that for the unbelievers is the chastisement of fire.

[8.15] O you who believe! when you meet those who disbelieve marching for war, then turn not your backs to them.

[8.16] And whoever shall turn his back to them on that day-- unless he turn aside for the sake of fighting or withdraws to a company-- then he, indeed, becomes deserving of Allah's wrath, and his abode is hell; and an evil destination shall it be.

[8.17] So you did not slay them, but it was Allah Who slew them, and you did not smite when you smote (the enemy), but it was Allah Who smote, and that He might confer upon the believers a good gift from Himself; surely Allah is Hearing, Knowing.

[8.18] This, and that Allah is the weakener of the struggle of the unbelievers.

[8.19] If you demanded a judgment, the judgment has then indeed come to you; and if you desist, it will be better for you; and if you turn back (to fight), We (too) shall turn back, and your forces shall avail you nothing, though they may be many, and (know) that Allah is with the believers.

[8.20] O you who believe! obey Allah and His Apostle and do not turn back from Him while you hear.

[8.21] And be not like those who said, We hear, and they did not obey.

[8.22] Surely the vilest of animals, in Allah's sight, are the deaf, the dumb, who do not understand.

[8.23] And if Allah had known any good in them He would have made them hear, and if He makes them hear they would turn back while they withdraw.

[8.24] O you who believe! answer (the call of) Allah and His Apostle when he calls you to that which gives you life; and know that Allah intervenes between man and his heart, and that to Him you shall be gathered.

[8.25] And fear an affliction which may not smite those of you in particular who are unjust; and know that Allah is severe in requiting (evil).

[8.26] And remember when you were few, deemed weak in the land, fearing lest people might carry you off by force, but He sheltered you and strengthened you with His aid and gave you of the good things that you may give thanks.

[8.27] O you who believe! be not unfaithful to Allah and the Apostle, nor be unfaithful to your trusts while you know.

[8.28] And know that your property and your children are a temptation, and that Allah is He with Whom there is a mighty reward.

[8.29] O you who believe! If you are careful of (your duty to) Allah, He will grant you a distinction and do away with your evils and forgive you; and Allah is the Lord of mighty grace.

[8.30] And when those who disbelieved devised plans against you that they might confine you or slay you or drive you away; and they devised plans and Allah too had arranged a plan; and Allah is the best of planners.

[8.31] And when Our communications are recited to them, they say: We have heard indeed; if we pleased we could say the like of it; this is nothing but the stories of the ancients.

[8.32] And when they said: O Allah! if this is the truth from Thee, then rain upon us stones from heaven or inflict on us a painful punishment.

[8.33] But Allah was not going to chastise them while you were among them, nor is Allah going to chastise them while yet they ask for forgiveness.

[8.34] And what (excuse) have they that Allah should not chastise them while they hinder (men) from the Sacred Mosque and they are not (fit to be) guardians of it; its guardians are only those who guard (against evil), but most of them do not know.

[8.35] And their prayer before the House is nothing but whistling and clapping of hands; taste then the chastisement, for you disbelieved.

[8.36] Surely those who disbelieve spend their wealth to hinder (people) from the way of Allah; so they shall spend it, then it shall be to them an intense regret, then they shall be overcome; and those who disbelieve shall be driven together to hell.

[8.37] That Allah might separate the impure from the good, and put the impure, some of it upon the other, and pile it up together, then cast it into hell; these it is that are the losers.

[8.38] Say to those who disbelieve, if they desist, that which is past shall be forgiven to them; and if they return, then what happened to the ancients has already passed.

[8.39] And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah; but if they desist, then surely Allah sees what they do.

[8.40] And if they turn back, then know that Allah is your Patron; most excellent is the Patron and most excellent the Helper.

[8.41] And know that whatever thing you gain, a fifth of it is for Allah and for the Apostle and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, if you believe in Allah and in that which We revealed to Our servant, on the day of distinction, the day on which the two parties met; and Allah has power over all things.

[8.42] When you were on the nearer side (of the valley) and they were on the farthest side, while the caravan was in a lower place than you; and if you had mutually made an appointment, you would certainly have broken away from the appointment, but-- in order that Allah might bring about a matter which was to be done, that he who would perish might perish by clear proof, and he who would live might live by clear proof; and most surely Allah is Hearing, Knowing;

[8.43] When Allah showed them to you in your dream as few; and if He had shown them to you as many you would certainly have become weak-hearted and you would have disputed about the matter, but Allah saved (you); surely He is the Knower of what is in the breasts.

[8.44] And when He showed them to you, when you met, as few in your eyes and He made you to appear little in their eyes, in order that Allah might bring about a matter which was to be done, and to Allah are all affairs returned.

[8.45] O you who believe! when you meet a party, then be firm, and remember Allah much, that you may be successful.

[8.46] And obey Allah and His Apostle and do not quarrel for then you will be weak in hearts and your power will depart, and be patient; surely Allah is with the patient.

[8.47] And be not like those who came forth from their homes in great exultation and to be seen of men, and (who) turn away from the way of Allah, and Allah comprehends what they do.

[8.48] And when the Shaitan made their works fair seeming to them, and said: No one can overcome you this day, and surely I am your protector: but when the two parties came in sight of each other he turned upon his heels, and said: Surely I am clear of you, surely I see what you do not see, surely I fear Allah; and Allah is severe in requiting (evil).

[8.49] When the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was disease said: Their religion has deceived them; and whoever trusts in Allah, then surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.

[8.50] And had you seen when the angels will cause to die those who disbelieve, smiting their faces and their backs, and (saying): Taste the punishment of burning.

[8.51] This is for what your own hands have sent on before, and because Allah is not in the least unjust to the servants;

[8.52] In the manner of the people of Firon and those before them; they disbelieved in Allah's communications, therefore Allah destroyed them on account of their faults; surely Allah is strong, severe in requiting (evil).

[8.53] This is because Allah has never changed a favor which He has conferred upon a people until they change their own condition; and because Allah is Hearing, Knowing;

[8.54] In the manner of the people of Firon and those before them; they rejected the communications of their Lord, therefore We destroyed them on account of their faults and We drowned Firon's people, and they were all unjust.

[8.55] Surely the vilest of animals in Allah's sight are those who disbelieve, then they would not believe.

[8.56] Those with whom you make an agreement, then they break their agreement every time and they do not guard (against punishment).

[8.57] Therefore if you overtake them in fighting, then scatter by (making an example of) them those who are in their rear, that they may be mindful.

[8.58] And if you fear treachery on the part of a people, then throw back to them on terms of equality; surely Allah does not love the treacherous.

[8.59] And let not those who disbelieve think that they shall come in first; surely they will not escape.

[8.60] And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at the frontier, to frighten thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them, whom you do not know (but) Allah knows them; and whatever thing you will spend in Allah's way, it will be paid back to you fully and you shall not be dealt with unjustly.

[8.61] And if they incline to peace, then incline to it and trust in Allah; surely He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

[8.62] And if they intend to deceive you-- then surely Allah is sufficient for you; He it is Who strengthened you with His help and with the believers

[8.63] And united their hearts; had you spent all that is in the earth, you could not have united their hearts, but Allah united them; surely He is Mighty, Wise.

[8.64] O Prophet! Allah is sufficient for you and (for) such of the believers as follow you.

[8.65] O Prophet! urge the believers to war; if there are twenty patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a hundred of you they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they are a people who do not understand.

[8.66] For the present Allah has made light your burden, and He knows that there is weakness in you; so if there are a hundred patient ones of you they shall overcome two hundred, and if there are a thousand they shall overcome two thousand by Allah's permission, and Allah is with the patient.

[8.67] It is not fit for a prophet that he should take captives unless he has fought and triumphed in the land; you desire the frail goods of this world, while Allah desires (for you) the hereafter; and Allah is Mighty, Wise.

[8.68] Were it not for an ordinance from Allah that had already gone forth, surely there would have befallen you a great chastisement for what you had taken to.

[8.69] Eat then of the lawful and good (things) which you have acquired in war, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

[8.70] O Prophet! say to those of the captives who are in your hands: If Allah knows anything good in your hearts, He will give to you better than that which has been taken away from you and will forgive you, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

[8.71] And if they intend to act unfaithfully towards you, so indeed they acted unfaithfully towards Allah before, but He gave (you) mastery over them; and Allah is Knowing, Wise.

[8.72] Surely those who believed and fled (their homes) and struggled hard in Allah's way with their property and their souls, and those who gave shelter and helped-- these are guardians of each other; and (as for) those who believed and did not fly, not yours is their guardianship until they fly; and if they seek aid from you in the matter of religion, aid is incumbent on you except against a people between whom and you there is a treaty, and Allah sees what you do.

[8.73] And (as for) those who disbelieve, some of them are the guardians of others; if you will not do it, there will be in the land persecution and great mischief.

[8.74] And (as for) those who believed and fled and struggled hard in Allah's way, and those who gave shelter and helped, these are the believers truly; they shall have forgiveness and honorable provision.

[8.75] And (as for) those who believed afterwards and fled and struggled hard along with you, they are of you; and the possessors of relationships are nearer to each other in the ordinance of Allah; surely Allah knows all things.

Surah 17 The Children of Israel

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[17.1] Glory be to Him Who made His servant to go on a night from the Sacred Mosque to the remote mosque of which We have blessed the precincts, so that We may show to him some of Our signs; surely He is the Hearing, the Seeing.

[17.2] And We gave Musa the Book and made it a guidance to the children of Israel, saying: Do not take a protector besides Me;

[17.3] The offspring of those whom We bore with Nuh; surely he was a grateful servant.

[17.4] And We had made known to the children of Israel in the Book: Most certainly you will make mischief in the land twice, and most certainly you will behave insolently with great insolence.

[17.5] So when the promise for the first of the two came, We sent over you Our servants, of mighty prowess, so they went to and fro among the houses, and it was a promise to be accomplished.

[17.6] Then We gave you back the turn to prevail against them, and aided you with wealth and children and made you a numerous band.

[17.7] If you do good, you will do good for your own souls, and if you do evil, it shall be for them. So when the second promise came (We raised another people) that they may bring you to grief and that they may enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and that they might destroy whatever they gained ascendancy over with utter destruction.

[17.8] It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you, and if you again return (to disobedience) We too will return (to punishment), and We have made hell a prison for the unbelievers.

[17.9] Surely this Quran guides to that which is most upright and gives good news to the believers who do good that they shall have a great reward.

[17.10] And that (as for) those who do not believe in the hereafter, We have prepared for them a painful chastisement.

[17.11] And man prays for evil as he ought to pray for good, and man is ever hasty.

[17.12] And We have made the night and the day two signs, then We have made the sign of the night to pass away and We have made the sign of the day manifest, so that you may seek grace from your Lord, and that you might know the numbering of years and the reckoning; and We have explained everything with distinctness.

[17.13] And We have made every man's actions to cling to his neck, and We will bring forth to him on the resurrection day a book which he will find wide open:

[17.14] Read your book; your own self is sufficient as a reckoner against you this day.

[17.15] Whoever goes aright, for his own soul does he go aright; and whoever goes astray, to its detriment only does he go astray: nor can the bearer of a burden bear the burden of another, nor do We chastise until We raise an apostle.

[17.16] And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction.

[17.17] And how many of the generations did We destroy after Nuh! and your Lord is sufficient as Knowing and Seeing with regard to His servants' faults.

[17.18] Whoever desires this present life, We hasten to him therein what We please for whomsoever We desire, then We assign to him the hell; he shall enter it despised, driven away.

[17.19] And whoever desires the hereafter and strives for it as he ought to strive and he is a believer; (as for) these, their striving shall surely be accepted.

[17.20] All do We aid-- these as well as those-- out of the bounty of your Lord, and the bounty of your Lord is not confined.

[17.21] See how We have made some of them to excel others, and certainly the hereafter is much superior in respect of excellence.

[17.22] Do not associate with Allah any other god, lest you sit down despised, neglected.

[17.23] And your Lord has commanded that you shall not serve (any) but Him, and goodness to your parents. If either or both of them reach old age with you, say not to them (so much as) "Ugh" nor chide them, and speak to them a generous word.

[17.24] And make yourself submissively gentle to them with compassion, and say: O my Lord! have compassion on them, as they brought me up (when I was) little.

[17.25] Your Lord knows best what is in your minds; if you are good, then He is surely Forgiving to those who turn (to Him) frequently.

[17.26] And give to the near of kin his due and (to) the needy and the wayfarer, and do not squander wastefully.

[17.27] Surely the squanderers are the fellows of the Shaitans and the Shaitan is ever ungrateful to his Lord.

[17.28] And if you turn away from them to seek mercy from your Lord, which you hope for, speak to them a gentle word.

[17.29] And do not make your hand to be shackled to your neck nor stretch it forth to the utmost (limit) of its stretching forth, lest you should (afterwards) sit down blamed, stripped off.

[17.30] Surely your Lord makes plentiful the means of subsistence for whom He pleases and He straitens (them); surely He is ever Aware of, Seeing, His servants.

[17.31] And do not kill your children for fear of poverty; We give them sustenance and yourselves (too); surely to kill them is a great wrong.

[17.32] And go not nigh to fornication; surely it is an indecency and an evil way.

[17.33] And do not kill any one whom Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause, and whoever is slain unjustly, We have indeed given to his heir authority, so let him not exceed the just limits in slaying; surely he is aided.

[17.34] And draw not near to the property of the orphan except in a goodly way till he attains his maturity and fulfill the promise; surely (every) promise shall be questioned about.

[17.35] And give full measure when you measure out, and weigh with a true balance; this is fair and better in the end.

[17.36] And follow not that of which you have not the knowledge; surely the hearing and the sight and the heart, all of these, shall be questioned about that.

[17.37] And do not go about in the land exultingly, for you cannot cut through the earth nor reach the mountains in height.

[17.38] All this-- the evil of it-- is hateful in the sight of your Lord.

[17.39] This is of what your Lord has revealed to you of wisdom, and do not associate any other god with Allah lest you should be thrown into hell, blamed, cast away.

[17.40] What! has then your Lord preferred to give you sons, and (for Himself) taken daughters from among the angels? Most surely you utter a grievous saying.

[17.41] And certainly We have repeated (warnings) in this Quran that they may be mindful, but it does not add save to their aversion.

[17.42] Say: If there were with Him gods as they say, then certainly they would have been able to seek a way to the Lord of power.

[17.43] Glory be to Him and exalted be He in high exaltation above what they say.

[17.44] The seven heavens declare His glory and the earth (too), and those who are in them; and there is not a single thing but glorifies Him with His praise, but you do not understand their glorification; surely He is Forbearing, Forgiving.

[17.45] And when you recite the Quran, We place between you and those who do not believe in the hereafter a hidden barrier;

[17.46] And We have placed coverings on their hearts and a heaviness in their ears lest they understand it, and when you mention your Lord alone in the Quran they turn their backs in aversion.

[17.47] We know best what they listen to when they listen to you, and when they take counsel secretly, when the unjust say: You follow only a man deprived of reason.

[17.48] See what they liken you to! So they have gone astray and cannot find the way.

[17.49] And they say: What! when we shall have become bones and decayed particles, shall we then certainly be raised up, being a new creation?

[17.50] Say: Become stones or iron,

[17.51] Or some other creature of those which are too hard (to receive life) in your minds! But they will say: Who will return us? Say: Who created you at first. Still they will shake their heads at you and say: When will it be? Say: Maybe it has drawn nigh.

[17.52] On the day when He will call you forth, then shall you obey Him, giving Him praise, and you will think that you tarried but a little (while).

[17.53] And say to My servants (that) they speak that which is best; surely the Shaitan sows dissensions among them; surely the Shaitan is an open enemy to man.

[17.54] Your Lord knows you best; He will have mercy on you if He pleases, or He will chastise you if He pleases; and We have not sent you as being in charge of them.

[17.55] And your Lord best knows those who are in the heavens and the earth; and certainly We have made some of the prophets to excel others, and to Dawood We gave a scripture.

[17.56] Say: Call on those whom you assert besides Him, so they shall not control the removal of distress from you nor (its) transference.

[17.57] Those whom they call upon, themselves seek the means of access to their Lord-- whoever of them is nearest-- and they hope for His mercy and fear His chastisement; surely the chastisement of your Lord is a thing to be cautious of.

[17.58] And there is not a town but We will destroy it before the day of resurrection or chastise it with a severe chastisement; this is written in the Divine ordinance.

[17.59] And nothing could have hindered Us that We should send signs except that the ancients rejected them; and We gave to Samood the she-camel-- a manifest sign-- but on her account they did injustice, and We do not send signs but to make (men) fear.

[17.60] And when We said to you: Surely your Lord encompasses men; and We did not make the vision which We showed you but a trial for men and the cursed tree in the Quran as well; and We cause them to fear, but it only adds to their great inordinacy.

[17.61] And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam; they made obeisance, but Iblis (did it not). He said: Shall I make obeisance to him whom Thou hast created of dust?

[17.62] He said: Tell me, is this he whom Thou hast honored above me? If Thou shouldst respite me to the day of resurrection, I will most certainly cause his progeny to perish except a few.

[17.63] He said: Be gone! for whoever of them will follow you, then surely hell is your recompense, a full recompense:

[17.64] And beguile whomsoever of them you can with your voice, and collect against them your forces riding and on foot, and share with them in wealth and children, and hold out promises to them; and the Shaitan makes not promises to them but to deceive:

[17.65] Surely (as for) My servants, you have no authority over them; and your Lord is sufficient as a Protector.

[17.66] Your Lord is He Who speeds the ships for you in the sea that you may seek of His grace; surely He is ever Merciful to you.

[17.67] And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He brings you safe to the land, you turn aside; and man is ever ungrateful.

[17.68] What! Do you then feel secure that He will not cause a tract of land to engulf you or send on you a tornado? Then you shall not find a protector for yourselves.

[17.69] Or, do you feel secure that He will (not) take you back into it another time, then send on you a fierce gale and thus drown you on account of your ungratefulness? Then you shall not find any aider against Us in the matter.

[17.70] And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We have given them of the good things, and We have made them to excel by an appropriate excellence over most of those whom We have created.

[17.71] (Remember) the day when We will call every people with their Imam; then whoever is given his book in his right hand, these shall read their book; and they shall not be dealt with a whit unjustly.

[17.72] And whoever is blind in this, he shall (also) be blind in the hereafter; and more erring from the way.

[17.73] And surely they had purposed to turn you away from that which We have revealed to you, that you should forge against Us other than that, and then they would certainly have taken you for a friend.

[17.74] And had it not been that We had already established you, you would certainly have been near to incline to them a little;

[17.75] In that case We would certainly have made you to taste a double (punishment) in this life and a double (punishment) after death, then you would not have found any helper against Us.

[17.76] And.surely they purposed to unsettle you from the land that they might expel you from it, and in that case they will not tarry behind you but a little.

[17.77] (This is Our) course with regard to those of Our apostles whom We sent before you, and you shall not find a change in Our course.

[17.78] Keep up prayer from the declining of the sun till the darkness of the night and the morning recitation; surely the morning recitation is witnessed.

[17.79] And during a part of the night, pray Tahajjud beyond what is incumbent on you; maybe your Lord will raise you to a position of great glory.

[17.80] And say: My Lord! make me to enter a goodly entering, and cause me to go forth a goodly going forth, and grant me from near Thee power to assist (me).

[17.81] And say: The truth has come and the falsehood has vanished; surely falsehood is a vanishing (thing).

[17.82] And We reveal of the Quran that which is a healing and a mercy to the believers, and it adds only to the perdition of the unjust.

[17.83] And when We bestow favor on man, he turns aside and behaves proudly, and when evil afflicts him, he is despairing.

[17.84] Say: Every one acts according to his manner; but your Lord best knows who is best guided in the path.

[17.85] And they ask you about the soul. Say: The soul is one of the commands of my Lord, and you are not given aught of knowledge but a little.

[17.86] And if We please, We should certainly take away that which We have revealed to you, then you would not find for it any protector against Us.

[17.87] But on account of mercy from your Lord-- surely His grace to you is abundant.

[17.88] Say: If men and jinn should combine together to bring the like of this Quran, they could not bring the like of it, though some of them were aiders of others.

[17.89] And certainly We have explained for men in this Quran every kind of similitude, but most men do not consent to aught but denying.

[17.90] And they say: We will by no means believe in you until you cause a fountain to gush forth from the earth for us.

[17.91] Or you should have a garden of palms and grapes in the midst of which you should cause rivers to flow forth, gushing out.

[17.92] Or you should cause the heaven to come down upon us in pieces as you think, or bring Allah and the angels face to face (with us).

[17.93] Or you should have a house of gold, or you should ascend into heaven, and we will not believe in your ascending until you bring down to us a book which we may read. Say: Glory be to my Lord; am I aught but a mortal apostle?

[17.94] And nothing prevented people from believing when the guidance came to them except that they said: What! has Allah raised up a mortal to be an apostle?

[17.95] Say: Had there been in the earth angels walking about as settlers, We would certainly have sent down to them from the heaven an angel as an apostle.

[17.96] Say: Allah suffices as a witness between me and you; surely He is Aware of His servants, Seeing.

[17.97] And whomsoever Allah guides, he is the follower of the right way, and whomsoever He causes to err, you shall not find for him guardians besides Him; and We will gather them together on the day of resurrection on their faces, blind and dumb and deaf; their abode is hell; whenever it becomes allayed We will add to their burning.

[17.98] This is their retribution because they disbelieved in Our communications and said What! when we shall have become bones and decayed particles, shall we then indeed be raised up into a new creation?

[17.99] Do they not consider that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create their like, and He has appointed for them a doom about which there is no doubt? But the unjust do not consent to aught but denying.

[17.100] Say: If you control the treasures of the mercy of my Lord, then you would withhold (them) from fear of spending, and man is niggardly.

[17.101] And certainly We gave Musa nine clear signs; so ask the children of Israel. When he came to them, Firon said to him: Most surely I deem you, O Musa, to be a man deprived of reason.

[17.102] He said: Truly you know that none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth has sent down these as clear proof and most surely I believe you, O Firon, to be given over to perdition.

[17.103] So he desired to destroy them out of the earth, but We drowned him and those with him all together;

[17.104] And We said to the Israelites after him: Dwell in the land: and when the promise of the next life shall come to pass, we will bring you both together in judgment.

[17.105] And with truth have We revealed it, and with truth did it come; and We have not sent you but as the giver of good news and as a warner.

[17.106] And it is a Quran which We have revealed in portions so that you may read it to the people by slow degrees, and We have revealed it, revealing in portions.

[17.107] Say: Believe in it or believe not; surely those who are given the knowledge before it fall down on their faces, making obeisance when it is recited to them.

[17.108] And they say: Glory be to our Lord! most surely the promise of our Lord was to be fulfilled.

[17.109] And they fall down on their faces weeping, and it adds to their humility.

[17.110] Say: Call upon Allah or call upon, the Beneficent God; whichever you call upon, He has the best names; and do not utter your prayer with a very raised voice nor be silent with regard to it, and seek a way between these.

[17.111] And say: (All) praise is due to Allah, Who has not taken a son and Who has not a partner in the kingdom, and Who has not a helper to save Him from disgrace; and proclaim His greatness magnifying (Him).

Surah 19 Marium

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[19.1] Kaf Ha Ya Ain Suad.

[19.2] A mention of the mercy of your Lord to His servant Zakariya.

[19.3] When he called upon his Lord in a low voice,

[19.4] He said: My Lord! surely my bones are weakened and my head flares with hoariness, and, my Lord! I have never been unsuccessful in my prayer to Thee:

[19.5] And surely I fear my cousins after me, and my wife is barren, therefore grant me from Thyself an heir,

[19.6] Who should inherit me and inherit from the children of Yaqoub, and make him, my Lord, one in whom Thou art well pleased.

[19.7] O Zakariya! surely We give you good news of a boy whose name shall be Yahya: We have not made before anyone his equal.

[19.8] He said: O my Lord! when shall I have a son, and my wife is barren, and I myself have reached indeed the extreme degree of old age?

[19.9] He said: So shall it be, your Lord says: It is easy to Me, and indeed I created you before, when you were nothing.

[19.10] He said: My Lord! give me a sign. He said: Your sign is that you will not be able to speak to the people three nights while in sound health.

[19.11] So he went forth to his people from his place of worship, then he made known to them that they should glorify (Allah) morning and evening.

[19.12] O Yahya! take hold of the Book with strength, and We granted him wisdom while yet a child

[19.13] And tenderness from Us and purity, and he was one who guarded (against evil),

[19.14] And dutiful to his parents, and he was not insolent, disobedient.

[19.15] And peace on him on the day he was born, and on the day he dies, and on the day he is raised to life

[19.16] And mention Marium in the Book when she drew aside from her family to an eastern place;

[19.17] So she took a veil (to screen herself) from them; then We sent to her Our spirit, and there appeared to her a well-made man.

[19.18] She said: Surely I fly for refuge from you to the Beneficent God, if you are one guarding (against evil).

[19.19] He said: I am only a messenger of your Lord: That I will give you a pure boy.

[19.20] She said: When shall I have a boy and no mortal has yet touched me, nor have I been unchaste?

[19.21] He said: Even so; your Lord says: It is easy to Me: and that We may make him a sign to men and a mercy from Us, and it is a matter which has been decreed.

[19.22] So she conceived him; then withdrew herself with him to a remote place.

[19.23] And the throes (of childbirth) compelled her to betake herself to the trunk of a palm tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died before this, and had been a thing quite forgotten!

[19.24] Then (the child) called out to her from beneath her: Grieve not, surely your Lord has made a stream to flow beneath you;

[19.25] And shake towards you the trunk of the palmtree, it will drop on you fresh ripe dates:

[19.26] So eat and drink and refresh the eye. Then if you see any mortal, say: Surely I have vowed a fast to the Beneficent God, so I shall not speak to any man today.

[19.27] And she came to her people with him, carrying him (with her). They said: O Marium! surely you have done a strange thing.

[19.28] O sister of Haroun! your father was not a bad man, nor, was your mother an unchaste woman.

[19.29] But she pointed to him. They said: How should we speak to one who was a child in the cradle?

[19.30] He said: Surely I am a servant of Allah; He has given me the Book and made me a prophet;

[19.31] And He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and He has enjoined on me prayer and poor-rate so long as I live;

[19.32] And dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me insolent, unblessed;

[19.33] And peace on me on the day I was born, and on the day I die, and on the day I am raised to life.

[19.34] Such is Isa, son of Marium; (this is) the saying of truth about which they dispute.

[19.35] It beseems not Allah that He should take to Himself a ! son, glory to be Him; when He has decreed a matter He only says to it "Be," and it is.

[19.36] And surely Allah is my Lord and your Lord, therefore serve Him; this is the right path.

[19.37] But parties from among them disagreed with each other, so woe to those who disbelieve, because of presence on a great

[19.38] How clearly shall they hear and how clearly shall they see on the day when they come to Us; but the unjust this day are in manifest error.

[19.39] And warn them of the day of intense regret, when the matter shall have been decided; and they are (now) in negligence and they do not believe.

[19.40] Surely We inherit the earth and all those who are on it, and to Us they shall be returned.

[19.41] And mention Ibrahim in the Book; surely he was a truthful man, a prophet.

[19.42] When he said to his father; O my father! why do you worship what neither hears nor sees, nor does it avail you in the least:

[19.43] O my father! truly the knowledge has come to me which has not come to you, therefore follow me, I will guide you on a right path:

[19.44] O my father! serve not the Shaitan, surely the Shaitan is disobedient to the Beneficent God:

[19.45] O my father! surely I fear that a punishment from the Beneficent God should afflict you so that you should be a friend of the Shaitan.

[19.46] He said: Do you dislike my gods, O Ibrahim? If you do not desist I will certainly revile you, and leave me for a time.

[19.47] He said: Peace be on you, I will pray to my Lord to forgive you; surely He is ever Affectionate to me:

[19.48] And I will withdraw from you and what you call on besides Allah, and I will call upon my Lord; may be I shall not remain unblessed in calling upon my Lord.

[19.49] So when he withdrew from them and what they worshipped besides Allah, We gave to him Ishaq and Yaqoub, and each one of them We made a prophet.

[19.50] And We granted to them of Our mercy, and We left (behind them) a truthful mention of eminence for them.

[19.51] And mention Musa in the Book; surely he was one purified, and he was an apostle, a prophet.

[19.52] And We called to him from the blessed side of the mountain, and We made him draw nigh, holding communion (with Us).

[19.53] And We gave to him out of Our mercy his brother Haroun a prophet.

[19.54] And mention Ismail in the Book; surely he was truthful in (his) promise, and he was an apostle, a prophet.

[19.55] And he enjoined on his family prayer and almsgiving, and was one in whom his Lord was well pleased.

[19.56] And mention Idris in the Book; surely he was a truthful man, a prophet,

[19.57] And We raised him high in Heaven.

[19.58] These are they on whom Allah bestowed favors, from among the prophets of the seed of Adam, and of those whom We carried with Nuh, and of the seed of Ibrahim and Israel, and of those whom We guided and chose; when the communications of the Beneficent God were recited to them, they fell down making obeisance and weeping.

[19.59] But there came after them an evil generation, who neglected prayers and followed and sensual desires, so they win meet perdition,

[19.60] Except such as repent and believe and do good, these shall enter the garden, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly in any way:

[19.61] The gardens of perpetuity which the Beneficent God has promised to His servants while unseen; surely His promise shall come to pass.

[19.62] They shall not hear therein any vain discourse, but only: Peace, and they shall have their sustenance therein morning and evening.

[19.63] This is the garden which We cause those of Our servants to inherit who guard (against evil).

[19.64] And we do not descend but by the command of your Lord; to Him belongs whatever is before us and whatever is behind us and whatever is between these, and your Lord is not forgetful.

[19.65] The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, so serve Him and be patient in His service. Do you know any one equal to Him?

[19.66] And says man: What! when I am dead shall I truly be brought forth alive?

[19.67] Does not man remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?

[19.68] So by your Lord! We will most certainly gather them together and the Shaitans, then shall We certainly cause them to be present round hell on their knees.

[19.69] Then We will most certainly draw forth from every sect of them him who is most exorbitantly rebellious against the Beneficent God.

[19.70] Again We do certainly know best those who deserve most to be burned therein.

[19.71] And there is not one of you but shall come to it; this is an unavoidable decree of your Lord.

[19.72] And We will deliver those who guarded (against evil), and We will leave the unjust therein on their knees.

[19.73] And when Our clear communications are recited to them, those who disbelieve say to those who believe: Which of the two parties is best in abiding and best in assembly?

[19.74] And how many of the generations have We destroyed before them who were better in respect of goods and outward appearance!

[19.75] Say: As for him who remains in error, the Beneficent God will surely prolong his length of days, until they see what they were threatened with, either the punishment or the hour; then they shall know who is in more evil plight and weaker in forces

[19.76] And Allah increases in guidance those who go aright; and ever-abiding good works are with your Lord best in recompense and best in yielding fruit.

[19.77] Have you, then, seen him who disbelieves in Our communications and says: I shall certainly be given wealth and children?

[19.78] Has he gained knowledge of the unseen, or made a covenant with the Beneficent God?

[19.79] By no means! We write down what he says, and We will lengthen to him the length of the chastisement

[19.80] And We will inherit of him what he says, and he shall come to Us alone.

[19.81] And they have taken gods besides Allah, that they should be to them a source of strength;

[19.82] By no means! They shall soon deny their worshipping them, and they shall be adversaries to them.

[19.83] Do you not see that We have sent the Shaitans against the unbelievers, inciting them by incitement?

[19.84] Therefore be not in haste against them, We only number out to them a number (of days).

[19.85] The day on which We will gather those who guard (against evil) to the Beneficent God to receive honors

[19.86] And We will drive the guilty to hell thirsty

[19.87] They shall not control intercession, save he who has made a covenant with the Beneficent God.

[19.88] And they say: The Beneficent God has taken (to Himself) a son.

[19.89] Certainly you have made an abominable assertion

[19.90] The heavens may almost be rent thereat, and the earth cleave asunder, and the mountains fall down in pieces,

[19.91] That they ascribe a son to the Beneficent God.

[19.92] And it is not worthy of the Beneficent God that He should take (to Himself) a son.

[19.93] There is no one in the heavens and the earth but will come to the Beneficent God as a servant.

[19.94] Certainly He has a comprehensive knowledge of them and He has numbered them a (comprehensive) numbering.

[19.95] And every one of them will come to Him on the day of resurrection alone.

[19.96] Surely (as for) those who believe and do good deeds for t them will Allah bring about love.

[19.97] So We have only made it easy in your tongue that you may give good news thereby to those who guard (against evil) and warn thereby a vehemently contentious people.

[19.98] And how many a generation have We destroyed before them! Do you see any one of them or hear a sound of them?

EXODUS CHAPTER 18 (THE JUSTICE SYSTEM OF THE DESERT ISRAELITES)

1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;

2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:

5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.

8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.

13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.

14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?

15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:

16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.

19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:

20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.

25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

27 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

Ephesians 6 (THE BEAUTY OF FAMILY)

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—

3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”

4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people,

8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.

9 And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

The Armor of God

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.

12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,

15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.

16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.

19 Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel,

20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.

Final Greetings

21 Tychicus, the dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you everything, so that you also may know how I am and what I am doing.

22 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage you.

23 Peace to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

24 Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

Exodus Chapter 12 The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread

1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,

2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.

5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.

6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.

7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.

9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.

10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.

11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.

12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.

13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.

15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

17 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.

20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”

21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.

23 When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

24 “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.

25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.

26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’

27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

28 The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.

29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.

30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

The Exodus

31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested.

32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”

33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!”

34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.

35 The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.

36 The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.

37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

38 Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.

39 With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.

40 Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years.

41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt.

42 Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.

Passover Restrictions

43 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: “No foreigner may eat it.

44 Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,

45 but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.

46 “It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

47 The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

48 “A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it.

49 The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”

50 All the Israelites did just what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

51 And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.

Esther 1 Queen Vashti Deposed

1 This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,[a] the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush:

2 At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,

3 and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces were present.

4 For a full 180 days he displayed the vast wealth of his kingdom and the splendor and glory of his majesty.

5 When these days were over, the king gave a banquet, lasting seven days, in the enclosed garden of the king’s palace, for all the people from the least to the greatest who were in the citadel of Susa.

6 The garden had hangings of white and blue linen, fastened with cords of white linen and purple material to silver rings on marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones.

7 Wine was served in goblets of gold, each one different from the other, and the royal wine was abundant, in keeping with the king’s liberality.

8 By the king’s command each guest was allowed to drink with no restrictions, for the king instructed all the wine stewards to serve each man what he wished.

9 Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

10 On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas—

11 to bring before him Queen Vashti, wearing her royal crown, in order to display her beauty to the people and nobles, for she was lovely to look at.

12 But when the attendants delivered the king’s command, Queen Vashti refused to come. Then the king became furious and burned with anger.

13 Since it was customary for the king to consult experts in matters of law and justice, he spoke with the wise men who understood the times

14 and were closest to the king—Karshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memukan, the seven nobles of Persia and Media who had special access to the king and were highest in the kingdom.

15 “According to law, what must be done to Queen Vashti?” he asked. “She has not obeyed the command of King Xerxes that the eunuchs have taken to her.”

16 Then Memukan replied in the presence of the king and the nobles, “Queen Vashti has done wrong, not only against the king but also against all the nobles and the peoples of all the provinces of King Xerxes.

17 For the queen’s conduct will become known to all the women, and so they will despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she would not come.’

18 This very day the Persian and Median women of the nobility who have heard about the queen’s conduct will respond to all the king’s nobles in the same way. There will be no end of disrespect and discord.

19 “Therefore, if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she.

20 Then when the king’s edict is proclaimed throughout all his vast realm, all the women will respect their husbands, from the least to the greatest.”

21 The king and his nobles were pleased with this advice, so the king did as Memukan proposed.

22 He sent dispatches to all parts of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be ruler over his own household, using his native tongue.

Esther 2 Esther Made Queen

1 Later when King Xerxes’ fury had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her.

2 Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.

3 Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.

4 Then let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.

5 Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,

6 who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin king of Judah.

7 Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.

8 When the king’s order and edict had been proclaimed, many young women were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king’s palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem.

9 She pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem.

10 Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.

11 Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.

12 Before a young woman’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.

13 And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

14 In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.

15 When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.

16 She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

17 Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

18 And the king gave a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.

Mordecai Uncovers a Conspiracy

19 When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

20 But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai’s instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.

21 During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

22 But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai.

23 And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.

1 Corinthians 13 THE DEFINING CHAPTER OF REAL HOLY LOVE

1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.