Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

315 : Basic English : Ezekiel 5,6,7; Titus 1 1. And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, using it like a haircutter's blade, and making it go over your head and the hair of your chin: and take scales for separating the hair by weight.
2. You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.
3. And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts.
4. And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,
5. This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;
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314 : Basic English : Ezekiel 3,4; 2 Timothy 4 1. And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.
2. And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.
3. And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.
4. And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.
5. For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;
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313 : Basic English : Ezekiel 1,2; 2 Timothy 3 1. Now it came about in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was by the river Chebar among those who had been made prisoners, that the heavens were made open and I saw visions of God.
2. On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,
3. The word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldaeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was on me there.
4. And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.
5. And in the heart of it were the forms of four living beings. And this was what they were like; they had the form of a man.
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312 : Basic English : Lamentations 4,5; 2 Timothy 2 1. How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.
2. The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
3. Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
4. The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
5. Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.
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311 : Basic English : Lamentations 2,3; 2 Timothy 1 1. How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.
2. The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.
3. In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.
4. His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.
5. The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
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