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¹Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert, in order to be tempted by the devil. ²And when he had fasted for forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. ³And approaching, the tempter said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” ⁴And in response he said, “It has been written: ‘Not by bread alone shall man live, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ” ⁵Then the devil took him up, into the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, ⁶and said to him: “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down. For it has been written: ‘For he has given charge of you to his angels, and they shall take you into their hands, lest perhaps you may hurt your foot against a stone.’ ”

¹⁹Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.

²⁵And I will make a covenant of peace with them. And I will cause the very harmful beasts to cease from the land. And those who are living in the desert will sleep securely in the forests.

¹Now Moses was pasturing the sheep of his father-in-law Jethro, a priest of Midian. And when he had driven the flock into the interior of the desert, he came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

⁶And the woman fled into solitude, where a place was being held ready by God, so that they might pasture her in that place for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

¹⁷But God heard the voice of the boy. And an Angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, saying: “What are you doing, Hagar? Do not be afraid. For God has heeded the voice of the boy, from the place where he is. ¹⁸Rise up. Take the boy and hold him by the hand. For I will make of him a great nation.” ¹⁹And God opened her eyes. And seeing a well of water, she went and filled the skin, and she gave the boy to drink. ²⁰And God was with him. And he grew, and he stayed in the wilderness, and he became a young man, an archer. ²¹And he lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

⁷And when the Angel of the Lord had found her, near the fountain of water in the wilderness, which is on the way to Shur in the desert, ⁸he said to her: “Hagar, handmaid of Sarai, where have you come from? And where will you go?” And she answered, “I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.” ⁹And the Angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hand.” ¹⁰And again he said, “I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude.” ¹¹But thereafter he said: “Behold, you have conceived, and you will give birth to a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction.

¹Now in those days, John the Baptist arrived, preaching in the desert of Judea,

¹²And immediately the Spirit prompted him into the desert. ¹³And he was in the desert for forty days and forty nights. And he was tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the Angels ministered to him.

¹⁴“Because of this, behold, I will attract her, and I will lead her into the wilderness, and I will speak to her heart.