Bible: Jer 3:1, 7, 10, 12, 19, 22; 4:1; 8:4, 5; 18:8, 11; 26:3; 35:15; 36:3, 7

3:1 “If a man divorces his wife

and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife,

he may not take her back again. 1 

Doing that would utterly defile the land. 2 

But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. 3 

So what makes you think you can return to me?” 4 

says the Lord.

3:7 Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. 5  But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did. 6  3:10 In spite of all this, 7  Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,” 8  says the Lord.

The Lord Calls on Israel and Judah to Repent

3:12 “Go and shout this message to my people in the countries in the north. 9  Tell them,

‘Come back to me, wayward Israel,’ says the Lord.

‘I will not continue to look on you with displeasure. 10 

For I am merciful,’ says the Lord.

‘I will not be angry with you forever.

3:19 “I thought to myself, 11 

‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! 12 

What a joy it would be for me to give 13  you a pleasant land,

the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’ 14 

I thought you would call me, ‘Father’ 15 

and would never cease being loyal to me. 16 

3:22 Come back to me, you wayward people.

I want to cure your waywardness. 17 

Say, 18  ‘Here we are. We come to you

because you are the Lord our God.

The Story of Cain and Abel

4:1 Now 1  the man had marital relations with 2  his wife Eve, and she became pregnant 3  and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created 4  a man just as the Lord did!” 5 

8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat. 1  8:5 The waters kept on receding 2  until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible. 3 

18:8 Abraham 1  then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food 2  before them. They ate while 3  he was standing near them under a tree.

18:11 Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; 4  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) 5 
26:3 Stay 1  in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, 2  for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, 3  and I will fulfill 4  the solemn promise I made 5  to your father Abraham.
35:15 Jacob named the place 1  where God spoke with him Bethel. 2 

36:3 in addition to Basemath the daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

36:7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled 1  was not able to support them because of their livestock.
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