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29 October Reading: Genesis 14-15:6 | Jonah 4 | Revelations 8 Tehillim: Psalm 19   Genesis 15 1 Some time later the word of Adonai came to Avram in a vision: “Don’t be afraid, Avram. I am your protector; your reward will be very great.” 2  Avram replied, “ Adonai , God, what good will your gifts be to me if I continue childless; and Eli‘ezer from Dammesek inherits my possessions? 3  You haven’t given me a child,” Avram continued, “so someone born in my house will be my heir.” 4  But the word of Adonai came to him: “This man will not be your heir. No, your heir will be a child from your own body.” 5  Then he brought him outside and said, “Look up at the sky, and count the stars — if you can count them! Your descendants will be that many!” 6  He believed in Adonai , and he credited it to him as righteousness. Jonah 4 11 So shouldn’t I be concerned about the great city of Ninveh, in which there are more than 120,000 people who don’t know their right hand from their left — not to

Reading: Genesis 14 | Jonah 3 | Revelations 7 Tehillim: Psalm 18 Genesis 14 Abram and Melchizedek 18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said: “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” And he gave him [ f ]a tithe of all. Jonah 3: 10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. Revelations 7 9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” 13 One of the elders asked me,