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 \v 4 What follows is how God created the heavens and the earth.
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 \p God, whose name is Yahweh, made the heavens and the earth.
 \v 5 At first there were no plants growing, because Yahweh God had not yet caused rain to fall on the ground. Furthermore, there was no one to plow the ground for planting crops.
 \v 6 Instead, mist rose up from the ground, so that there was water all over the surface of the ground.
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 \v 24 The first woman was taken from the man's body, so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.
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 \v 25 Although the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about being naked.
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 \v 1 Now the snake was more cunning than all the other wild animals that Yahweh God had made. The snake said to her, "Did God really say to you, 'Do not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the park'?"
 \v 2 The woman replied, "What God said was, 'Do not eat the fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the park or touch it. If you do that, you will die.
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 \v 22 Then Yahweh God said, "Look! Those two have become like us because they know what is good to do and what is evil to do. So now, it will not be good if they reach out and pick and eat some of the fruit from the tree which enables people who eat it to live forever!"
 \v 23 So Yahweh God drove out the man and his wife from the park of Eden. Yahweh God had created Adam from the ground, and he forced him to plow the ground.
 \v 24 After Yahweh God drove them out, on the east side of the park he placed cherubim and a flaming sword that flashed back and forth, in order to block the entrance, so that people could not go back to the tree that enables anyone who eats its fruit to live forever.
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 \v 25 Adam continued to sleep with his wife, and she again became pregnant and gave birth to another son, whom she named Seth. She said, "I name him Seth because God has given me another child to take the place of Abel, since Cain killed him."
 \v 26 When Seth grew up, he became the father of a son whom he named Enosh. About that time people began to worship Yahweh.
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 \v 32 When Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of sons whom he named Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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 \v 20 Two of every kind of creature will come to you in order for you to keep them alive. They will include two of each kind of bird and two of each kind of larger animal and two of each kind of creature that moves close to the ground.
 \v 21 You must also take some of every kind of food that you and all these creatures will need, and store it in the boat."
 \v 22 So Noah did everything that God told him to do.
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 \v 23 In this way every living thing on the earth perished—the people, the larger animals, the creatures that crawl, and the birds. The only ones that remained alive were Noah and those who were in the boat with him.
 \v 24 The waters remained at full flood like that on the earth for 150 days.
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 \v 18 So Noah left the boat, along with his wife, his sons, and their wives.
 \v 19 Then all the creatures, including all those that move close to the ground, all the birds, and every animal that moves on the earth, left the boat. They left the boat in groups of their own kind.
 
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 \v 20 Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh. He took some of the animals and birds that were acceptable as sacrifices and killed them. Then he burned them whole on the altar.
 \v 21 When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, "I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though all that people think in their minds is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living beings again, as I did this time.
 \v 22 As long as the earth exists, the seasons for planting seeds and seasons for harvesting crops, the times when it is cold and times when it is hot, the summer and winter, the daytime and nighttime will continue."
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 \v 1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons. He said to them, "I want you to have many children who will live all over the earth.
 \v 2 All the larger animals on the earth, all the birds, all the creatures that move close to the ground, and all the fish, will be very afraid of you. I place them under your authority.
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 \v 5 I punish any creature who kills a human being—that they answer to Yahweh—whether it be an animal or from a human being. I demand that murderers must suffer for their crimes and pay with their own lives. Even when an animal kills a person, that animal must also have their life taken because they have taken the life of a human being. 
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 \v 6 For I made people to be like myself. So I insist that if someone murders another human being, another person must kill him. Anyone who pours another's blood out must himself lose his own blood.
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 \v 7 As for you, I want you to produce many children, in order that they and their descendants may live all over the earth."
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 \v 18 The sons of Noah who came out of boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham later became the father of Canaan.
 \v 19 All the people on the earth are descended from these three sons of Noah.
 
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 \v 20 Noah began to farm the land. He planted grapevines.
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 \v 28 Noah lived 350 more years after the flood.
 \v 29 He died when he was 950 years old.
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 \v 1 These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They became the fathers of many children after the flood.
 
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 \v 32 All these clans descended from the sons of Noah. Each clan had its own genealogy and each became a separate people group. Those people groups formed after the flood and spread all around the earth.
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 \v 31 Terah decided to leave Ur and go to live in the land of Canaan. So he took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran, and Abram's wife Sarai with him. But instead of going to Canaan, they stopped at the town of Haran and lived there.
 \v 32 When Terah was 205 years old, he died in Haran.
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 \v 18 So the king summoned Abram and said to him, "You have done a terrible thing to me! Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
 \v 19 Why did you say that she is your sister, so that I took her to be my wife? You should not have done that! So now take your wife, leave here and go!"
 \v 20 Then the king ordered his officials to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
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 \v 16 I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as particles of dust! If a man tried to count the particles of dust, it would be the same as if he tried to count your descendants.
 \v 17 Walk through the land in every direction, because I am going to give it all to you."
 \v 18 So Abram took down his tents and moved to Hebron and settled by the big trees of Mamre. He built a stone altar there to make sacrifices to Yahweh.
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 \v 1 Some time later, Abram had a vision in which Yahweh spoke to him and said, "Do not be afraid of anything, I will protect you and I will give a great reward."
 \v 2 But Abram replied, "Lord Yahweh, how can you give me what I truly want, because I have no children, and the one who will inherit all my possessions is my servant Eliezer, from Damascus!"
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 \v 19 That is the land where the Ken, the Keniz, the Kidmon,
 \v 20 the Heth, the Perez, the Repha,
 \v 21 the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Jebus people groups live."
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 \v 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram again and said to him, "I am God Almighty. I want you to live your life in the way that I want. I want you to not do anything wrong.
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 \v 4 "Listen to this! This is the covenant I am making with you: You will be the father of many groups of people.
 \v 5 Your name will be Abram no longer. Instead, your name will be Abraham, because I will make you the father of many groups of people.
 \v 6 I will cause you to have very, very many descendants, and I will cause nations and kings to be among them.
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 \v 7 I will make this covenant between me and you and the generations of your descendants after you forever. Because of this covenant, you will worship and follow me as God, and so will your descendants. 
 \v 8 I will give to you and to your descendants the land of Canaan, the whole land of Canaan, where you are now living. It will be an everlasting possession for them, and I will be their God."
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 \v 13 It does not matter whether their parents are members of your household or slaves that you have bought; they must all be circumcised. Your bodies will have this mark to show you have accepted this everlasting covenant that I am making.
 \v 14 You must drive out from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because that person has disobeyed my covenant."
 
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 \v 15 God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai, your wife, you must not call her Sarai any longer. I will change her name also. Her name will now be Sarah.
 \v 16 I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings and people groups will be descended from her."
 
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 \v 17 Abraham lay down with his face on the ground in respect before God. But then he laughed as he said to himself, "Can a man who is a hundred years old become a father of a son? And since Sarah is ninety years old, how can she bear a child?"
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 \v 25 and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
 \v 26 It was on that very same day that Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
 \v 27 All the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those Abraham had bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
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 \v 1 Abraham left Mamre and moved southwest to the Negev desert. There he lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in the town of Gerar.
 \v 2 While he was there, he told people that Sarah was his sister, not his wife. Then King Abimelech of Gerar sent some of his men to get Sarah, and they brought her to him to be his wife.
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 \v 11 Abraham replied, "I said that she was my sister because I thought, 'The people in this place certainly do not respect God. Certainly they do whatever wrong things they wish. So they will kill me to get my wife.'
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 \v 17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech's wife and his slave girls so that they could have children.
 \v 18 This was because Yahweh had caused it to be impossible for any of the women in Abimelech's household to bear children, because Abimelech had taken Abraham's wife Sarah.
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 \v 1 Yahweh acted very kindly toward Sarah, just as he said he would do. He did for Sarah exactly what he promised to do,
 \v 2 for she became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham when he was very old, at the time God promised it would happen.
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 \v 6 Sarah said, "Although I was sad before because I did not have any children, God has now enabled me to laugh with joy, and everyone who hears about what God has done for me will laugh with me."
 \v 7 She also said, "No one would have said to Abraham that some day I would nurse a child, but I have given birth to a son when Abraham is very old."
 
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 \v 8 The baby grew. The day came when he was taken off his mother's milk. On that day, Abraham prepared a large feast to celebrate.
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 \v 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree there, and there he worshiped Yahweh, the eternal God.
 \v 34 Abraham stayed as an outsider in the land of the Philistine people for a long time.
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 \v 1 Several years later, God tested Abraham to find out whether Abraham would obey him. He called out to Abraham, and Abraham replied, "I am here."
 \v 2 God said, "Your son, Isaac, whom you love very much, the only son I promised to give you. Take him with you and go together to the land of Moriah, and go up a mountain I will show you, and offer him as a burnt offering."
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 \v 23 Bethuel was the father of Rebekah. Those were the eight sons of Milcah, wife of Abraham's brother, Nahor.
 \v 24 Nahor also had a concubine, whose name was Beumah. She gave birth to four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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 \v 1 When Sarah was 127 years old,
 \v 2 she died at the city of Kiriath Arba, which is now called Hebron, in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham mourned over her.
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 \v 19 After that, Abraham buried his wife Sarah's body in the cave in the field in the Machpelah area near Mamre, which is now called Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
 \v 20 So the field and the cave in it were officially sold to Abraham by the descendants of Heth, for him to use as a burial ground.
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 \v 23 Then Moses said to Yahweh, "The people will not climb the mountain because you commanded them, saying, 'Set a boundary around the mountain, to set it apart.'"
 \v 24 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down the mountain and bring Aaron back up with you. But do not allow the priests or other people to cross the boundary to come up to me. If they cross it, I will punish them."
 \v 25 So Moses went down the mountain again and told the people what Yahweh had said.
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 \v 1 After these things I, John, saw in the vision that there was a door open in heaven. The one whose voice was like a loud trumpet, the one who had spoken to me previously, said to me, "Come up here! I will show you events that must happen later." 
 \v 2 Immediately I experienced that God's Spirit was specially controlling me. There was a throne there in heaven, and on the throne someone was sitting and ruling. 
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 \v 7-8 The first living creature was like a lion. The second living creature was like an ox. The third living creature had a face like a man's face. The fourth living creature was like an eagle that was flying. Each of the four living creatures had six wings. These wings were covered with eyes both top and bottom. Day and night they constantly say:
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 \v 1 Then an angel gave to me a reed similar to a measuring stick. God said to me, "Go to the temple, measure it and the altar in it, and count the people who are worshiping there. 
 \v 2 But do not measure the courtyard outside of the temple building because I have given it to the non-Jewish people groups. As a result, they will trample the city of Jerusalem for forty-two months. 
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 \v 16 The twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones in God's presence prostrated themselves and worshiped him. 
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 \q1 You are the one who has always existed!
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 \v 19 Then God opened his temple in heaven, and I saw in it the sacred chest. Lightning was flashing; it was thundering and rumbling; the earth shook, and large hail stones fell from the sky.
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 \v 16 But the ground helped the woman by opening up and swallowing the river that the dragon poured out from his mouth.
 \v 17 Then the dragon was very angry with the woman, so he went away to fight against the rest of her descendants. They are the people who obey God's commandments and who speak the truth about Jesus. 
 \v 18 Then the dragon stood on the ocean shore.
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 \v 3 They were singing a song like God's servant Moses sang long ago. They sang this to praise the Lamb in this way:
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 \q1 You always act righteously and truthfully.
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 \v 1 In the vision I heard someone in the temple speak in a loud voice to the angels who had the seven bowls. He said, "Go from here and pour out on the earth the wine in the seven bowls. This will make the people suffer because God is angry with them."
 
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 \v 4 Then the third angel poured out upon the rivers and water springs what was contained in his bowl. When he poured out his bowl, the water in the rivers and springs turned into blood.
 \v 5 I heard the angel who has power over the waters say to God, "O God, you exist and have always existed. You are the holy one. You are a fair judge of people.
 \v 6 The people who rebelled against you murdered your holy people and the prophets. So you are just in punishing them by giving them blood to drink. This is what they deserve."
-\v 7 Then I heard someone at the altar answer, "Yes, Lord God, you who are almighty, you punish people rightly and justly."
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 \v 8 Then the fourth angel poured out on the sun what was contained in his bowl. He was given permission to make the sun so hot that it would scorch people with fire.
 \v 9 So the people were severely burned, and they said evil things about God because he had the power to make them suffer in these ways. But they still refused to turn away from their evil behavior and refused to praise him.
 
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 \v 10 When the fifth angel poured out on the throne of the beast what was contained in his bowl, it became dark where the beast ruled. So the beast and the people whom the beast ruled were biting their tongues because they were suffering intense pain.
 \v 11 They insulted God who rules in heaven because their sores were so painful. But they refused to stop doing the evil things that they were doing.
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 \v 15 (I heard the Lord Jesus say, "You must listen carefully to me: I am coming unexpectedly, like a thief. So I will be happy with those who stay alert and keep on living in the right way so that they will not be ashamed. They will be just like a person who keeps his clothes on so that he will not be ashamed in front of other people.")
 \v 16 The evil spirits will gather the rulers at a place named in the Hebrew language Armageddon.
 
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 \v 17 Then the seventh angel poured out into the air what was contained in his bowl. As a result, someone said with a loud voice from the throne in the very holy place, "The time for God to punish rebellious people is finished."
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 \v 21 Huge hailstones, each weighing about thirty-four kilograms, fell from the sky onto the people. Then people blasphemed God because he had punished them in this terrible way, and because the hailstones were very large.
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 \v 1 After these things I heard what sounded like a huge crowd in heaven. They were shouting things like,
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 \v 7 We should rejoice, we should be extremely glad, and we should honor him
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 \v 8 God has permitted her to dress herself in fine linen, bright and clean.
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 \v 10 I immediately prostrated myself at his feet in order to worship him. But he said to me, "Do not worship me! I am just your fellow servant and the fellow servant of your fellow believers, those who speak the truth about Jesus. God is the one you should worship because it is the Spirit of God who gives people the power to speak the truth about Jesus!"
 
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 \v 11 Then I saw the heavens open up, and I was surprised to see a white horse. Jesus, the one who was riding on the horse, is called "Trustworthy and Genuine." He judges all people according to what is right; he fights in justice against his enemies.
 \v 12 His eyes shone like a flame of fire. There were many royal crowns on his head. A name had been written on him. Only he knows the meaning of that name.
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 \v 14 The armies of heaven were following him. They were riding on white horses. They were wearing clothes made of clean white linen.
-\v 15 A sharp sword extends from his mouth; with it he will strike the rebellious people groups. He himself will rule them powerfully as though he had an iron rod. He will crush his enemies as a person crushes grapes in a winepress. He will do this for God Almighty, who is furiously angry with them because of their sins.
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 \v 16 On his cloak close to his thigh a name had been written: "King who rules over all other kings and Lord who rules over all other lords."
 
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 \v 17 Then I saw an angel standing in the light of the sun. He called loudly to all the flesh-eating birds flying high in the sky, "Come and gather for the large feast that God is providing for you!
 \v 18 Come and eat the flesh of all God's enemies who are dead—the flesh of kings, of army commanders, of people who fought powerfully, of horses and of the soldiers who rode them, and the flesh of all other kinds of people, whether they were free or slave, important or not. All kinds!"
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 \v 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and the oceans no longer existed.
 \v 2 I saw God's holy city, which is the new city of Jerusalem. It was coming down out of heaven from God. God had prepared it and decorated it, just as women decorate a bride in order to marry a man.
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 \v 4 He will cause them to be sad no longer. He will stop them from weeping ever again. None of them will ever again die or mourn or cry or suffer pain because the things that used to make them sad will have all passed away."
 
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 \v 5 Then God, who sits on the throne, said, "Listen to this! I am now making everything new!" He said to me: "Write these things that I have told you because you can trust that I will certainly cause them to happen."
 \v 6 He also said to me, "I have completed all these things! I am the one who began all things and the one who will cause all things to end. To everyone who wants it, I will freely give water from the spring that causes people to live forever.
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 \v 8 But those who are cowardly, those who do not believe in me, those who do detestable things, those who murder people, those who sin sexually, those who do witchcraft, those who worship idols, and every liar will all suffer in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is what it means to die a second time."
 
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 \v 18 The city wall was made of something like the green stone that we call jasper. The city itself was made of pure gold that looked like clear glass.
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 \v 26 The people of the world will also bring their wealth into the city.
 \v 27 Nothing that is morally impure, no one who does deeds that God considers detestable, and no one who tells lies will ever enter that city. Only those people whose names are written in the book that belongs to the lamb, the book that has the names of people who have eternal life, will be there.
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