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⁵be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

²⁰Likewise, the twelve stones that they had taken up from the channel of the Jordan, Joshua stationed at Gilgal. ²¹And he said to the sons of Israel: “When your sons will question their fathers, tomorrow, and they will say to them, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ ²²you shall teach them, and you shall say: ‘Israel passed over this Jordan, through the dry channel.’ ²³For the Lord your God dried up its waters in your sight, until you crossed over, ²⁴just as he had done before, at the Red Sea, which he dried up until we crossed over.

¹⁷Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches. To him who prevails, I will give the hidden manna. And I will give to him a white emblem, and on the emblem, a new name has been written, which no one knows, except the one who receives it.

¹⁸And I say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

²“Choose twelve men, one from each tribe, ³and instruct them so that they may take from the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood still, twelve very hard stones, which you shall station in the place of the camp, where you will pitch your tents this night.” ⁴And Joshua called twelve men, whom he had chosen from the sons of Israel, one from each tribe, ⁵and he said to them: “Go before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and let each one carry from there one stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the sons of Israel, ⁶so that it may be a sign among you. And when your sons will ask you, tomorrow, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ ⁷you shall respond to them: ‘The waters of the Jordan failed before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, when the ark crossed over it. For this reason, these stones were placed as a monument for the sons of Israel, even forever.’ ”

²²The stone which the builders have rejected, this has become the head of the corner.

¹³You were with the delights of the Paradise of God. Every precious stone was your covering: sardius, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, and onyx, and beryl, sapphire, and garnet, and emerald. The work of your beauty was of gold, and your fissures were ready in the day when you were formed.

⁴And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, certainly, but elect and honored by God,

¹⁶For this reason, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will set a stone within the foundations of Zion, a tested stone, a cornerstone, a precious stone, which has been established in the foundation: whoever trusts in him need not hurry.

²⁶And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.

⁸and a stone of offense, and a rock of scandal, to those who are offended by the Word; neither do they believe, though they also have been built upon him.

¹And as he was departing from the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, observe these fine stones and fine structures.”

⁹All was of precious stones, which had been sawed by a particular standard and measure, as much within as without, from the foundation even to the summit of the walls, and outside even to the great atrium.

⁴⁵In accordance with what you saw, because the stone was torn away from the mountain without hands, and it crushed the earthenware, and the iron, and the brass, and the silver, and the gold, the great God has shown the king what will happen after this. And the dream is true, and its interpretation is faithful.”

⁴⁰And he said to them, “I tell you, that if these will keep silent, the stones themselves will cry out.”

¹⁸Therefore, Jacob, arising in the morning, took the stone which he had placed under his head, and he set it up as monument, pouring oil over it. ¹⁹And he called the name of the city, ‘Bethel,’ which before was called Luz. ²⁰And then he made a vow, saying: “If God will be with me, and will guard me along the way by which I walk, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, ²¹and if I will return prosperously to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God, ²²and this stone, which I have set up as a monument, will be called ‘the House of God.’ And from all the things that you will give to me, I will offer tithes to you.”

¹¹He is the stone, which was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.