And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the water of the conviction that brings the curse.

and do not cover [their] iniquity.

For the end, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, when he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your great mercy; and according to the multitude of Your compassions, blot out my transgression.

Turn away Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

I, [even] I, am He that blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and your sins; and I will remember [them] no more.

For behold, I have blotted your transgressions out as a cloud, and your sin as darkness; turn to Me, and I will redeem you.

Repent therefore and turn back, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that seasons of relaxation may come from the presence of the Lord,

If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you submit to regulations--

So the king's recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth [day], and they wrote as Haman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, and to the rulers of the nations according to their [many] languages, in the name of King Artaxerxes.

Write also in my name, as it seems good to you, and seal [it] with my ring; for whatever [orders] are written at the command of the king, and sealed with my ring, it is not lawful to revoke them.

And the king cried aloud to bring in the magicians, Chaldeans, [and] soothsayers. And he said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation, shall be clothed with scarlet, and [there shall be] a golden chain upon his neck, and he shall be the third ruler in my kingdom.

Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing, nor make known its interpretation to the king.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Now I say, for as much time as the heir is a minor, he does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,

Even so we, when we were minors, were enslaved by the elements of the world.

For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and who destroyed the dividing wall of separation,

and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, putting to death the enmity in Himself.

For on the one hand an annulment comes about of the preceding commandment on account of its weakness and uselessness.

By the saying "new," He has made the first obsolete. And the [one] becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish.

which [was] symbolic for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are being offered, which are not able, in respect to conscience, to make perfect the [one] performing the service,

[concerned] only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances which are imposed until a time of reformation.

Earlier saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and [sacrifices] for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law),

then He has said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first in order that He may establish the second.

And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of My people.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains [will continue] until one arises from out of [the] midst.