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Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the
LORD, and
Satan standing at
his right side to accuse him.
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The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has
chosen
Jerusalem, rebuke
you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?"
3 Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the
angel.
4
The angel said to those who were standing before him, "Take off his filthy
clothes." Then
he said to Joshua, "See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich
garments on
you."
5
Then I said, "Put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban
on his head and
clothed him,
while the angel of the LORD stood by.
6 The angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:
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"This is what the LORD Almighty says: `If you will walk in my ways and
keep my
requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts,
and I will
give you a place among these standing here.
8
"`Listen, O high priest Joshua and your associates seated before you, who
are men
symbolic of things to
come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.
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See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that
one stone, and
I will engrave an inscription on it,' says the LORD Almighty, `and I will
remove the sin of
this land in a single day.
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"`In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine
and fig tree,'
declares the LORD
Almighty."
These selections come from the New International Bible, courtesy of http://www.thebible.com/. In the
future, I will include comparison texts from other versions of the bible.
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