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1 Mojžíšova 50/50

1. 1 Ordered, not hurriedLight, sky, land, lights, creatures, then people — each introduced in its place rather than at speed.
2. 2 A garden, and a man from dustThe seventh day is set apart; then the account starts again from dry ground, a garden and a rib.
3. 3 Three questions, and no answer that helpsA serpent questions what God said, they eat and hide, and God asks three questions before anyone is sent out.
4. 4 Am I my brother's keeperTwo offerings, one accepted, and the brother who was not kills the other — then is marked so nobody kills him.
5. 5 Ten generations, and one who does not dieA list from Adam to Noah with the same shape each time, broken once by a man who walked with God and was not.
6. 6 Measured in cubitsThe earth fills with violence and God decides to end it, except for one man given exact dimensions to build to.
7. 7 The waters riseThey go in, the rain comes, the mountains are covered, and everything on dry land dies.
8. 8 A raven, then a doveGod remembers Noah, a wind passes, the vessel rests, and two birds are sent to ask whether the world is back.
9. 9 A sign put in the cloudA blessing, permission to eat meat with one restriction, a rule about blood, and a covenant with something to look at.
10. 10 By family, language, land and nationThe peoples descended from Noah's three sons, grouped four ways and ending where the next chapter begins.
11. 11 One language, and then notA plain, a plan to build a tower, and a scattering; then a genealogy that walks quietly toward Abram.
12. 12 Go, to a land not namedA man is told to leave everything for a country he is not told the name of, and he goes.
13. 13 You choose firstToo rich to share one country, their herdsmen quarrel, and the elder gives the younger first pick.
14. 14 Four kings against fiveThe cities of the plain are looted and Lot is taken; Abram arms his household, and a priest-king meets him coming back.
15. 15 Count the stars, if you canHe says he is still childless; he is taken outside, shown a sky, and a covenant is cut in the dark.
16. 16 The God who sees meA servant is given, conceives, is driven out, and meets someone by a spring who gives God a name nobody else gives him.
17. 17 New names, at ninety-nineA covenant, a new name for him and for her, and a sign cut into the body.
18. 18 She laughed, and said she did notThree men arrive in the heat of the day; one says Sarah will have a son, and then Abraham argues God down from fifty to ten.
19. 19 Do not look backTwo messengers are taken in, the city surrounds the house, and the family is pulled out by the hand.
20. 20 She is my sister, againThe same half-truth a second time, a king warned in a dream before anything happens, and a rebuke from outside the family.
21. 21 This time, out loudIsaac is born and Sarah laughs where everyone can hear; then she asks for the other mother and son to be sent away.
22. 22 Three days' walkHe is told to take his son to a mountain, and the story gives the walk its full length before anything is said.
23. 23 Four hundred shekels, weighed outSarah dies and Abraham refuses a gift, insisting on buying the field and the cave at the going rate, in public.
24. 24 A sign asked for at a wellA servant is sent back to find a wife, asks for a specific sign, and it happens before he has finished speaking.
25. 25 Sold for a bowl of stewAbraham dies and is buried by both his sons; then twins struggle, and the elder trades what he was born with.
26. 26 The same wells, dug againA famine, the same half-truth his father told, and wells reopened one after another under the same names.
27. 27 The voice is Jacob'sAn old blind father, a mother listening at the door, and a blessing that cannot be taken back once it is given.
28. 28 A stone for a pillowSent away to find a wife, he sleeps in the open, sees a stairway, and wakes saying God was here and he did not know.
29. 29 Seven years, then seven moreHe works seven years for Rachel and is given Leah on the wedding night, then works seven more.
30. 30 Each name is an argumentEleven sons and a daughter are born, and every name records something said between two sisters.
31. 31 His face had changedJacob sees the welcome go cold and leaves without saying so; Rachel takes the household gods and sits on them.
32. 32 Wrestled until daybreakFour hundred men are coming; he sends gifts ahead, is left alone, and comes out of the night limping and renamed.
33. 33 He ran, and embraced himJacob bows seven times expecting the worst; Esau runs to meet him and the feared reunion does not happen.
34. 34 Answered with a knifeDinah is seized; her brothers use a covenant sign as a trap, and their father's objection is about reputation.
35. 35 Buried under a treeTold to go back, he buries the household's foreign gods, builds an altar, and buries Rachel on the road.
36. 36 A list of the other brotherEsau's wives, sons and chiefs, the people already in Seir, and kings who reigned before there was a king in Israel.
37. 37 A coat, and two dreamsThe favourite is given a coat and tells his brothers two dreams in which they bow; he is sold and a coat is returned bloodied.
38. 38 The story stops for a chapterJudah leaves his brothers, and a woman he has wronged proves it with three objects he gave her himself.
39. 39 She kept his coatTrusted with everything, refused day after day, and accused by the garment he left behind when he ran.
40. 40 Two dreams, one nightTwo officers dream in the same prison, and the man who reads both is forgotten by the one who goes free.
41. 41 Seven fat, seven thinTwo years later Pharaoh dreams twice, nobody can read it, and the forgotten man is brought up out of the pit.
42. 42 He knew them, and they did notTen come to buy grain and the man selling it recognises them; he speaks through an interpreter and keeps one back.
43. 43 They cannot go back without himThe grain runs out and Judah stands surety; the youngest is brought down, and the host has to leave the room.
44. 44 Searched from the eldest downA cup is planted, the sacks are opened in order, and Judah offers himself in the place of his brother.
45. 45 I am JosephHe sends everyone out and tells them who he is, weeping loudly enough for the Egyptians to hear.
46. 46 Do not be afraid to go downHe stops to sacrifice on the way, is told not to fear the journey, and a household is counted as it goes.
47. 47 Few and hard, my years have beenFive brothers and then his father meet Pharaoh; asked his age, the old man answers with an assessment nobody requested.
48. 48 He crossed his handsTwo grandsons are adopted as sons, and the hands go deliberately to the wrong heads despite an objection.
49. 49 Twelve, one at a timeHe gathers his sons and speaks over each in turn: some get a future, some a character, some the memory of what they did.
50. 50 You meant it for harmHe carries his father back to the bought cave; afterwards the brothers fear him, and he answers without denying what they did.

Žalmy 1/150

Matouš 28/28

1. 1 Forty-odd names, then a birthMatthew opens with a list running from Abraham to Joseph, and only then tells how Jesus was born.
2. 2 A star, and a king who countsWise men ask Herod where the king of the Jews has been born, and he asks them to come back and tell him.
3. 3 Someone stronger is comingJohn baptises crowds in the Jordan and warns of one whose sandals he is not worthy to carry.
4. 4 Forty days, and three testsTested in the wilderness, he hears that John has been arrested, moves to Capernaum, and calls his first four.
5. 5 The unlucky, called fortunateHe sits down on a mountain and starts by calling fortunate the people usually counted unlucky.
6. 6 Giving, praying, fasting — out of sightThree religious habits handled the same way, each to be done unseen, with the prayer he teaches set in the middle.
7. 7 Build on rockDo not judge, ask and it will be given, enter by the narrow gate, and judge a teacher by what grows from him.
8. 8 Almost nobody speaksThree healings, two would-be followers, a storm, and two men among the tombs: the chapter moves faster than it talks.
9. 9 Forgiven before he is healedA paralysed man hears about sins first, a tax collector is called from his table, and two needs are met on one road.
10. 10 Sent out with almost nothingThe twelve are named and given instructions that darken as they go: where to go, what not to carry, what to expect.
11. 11 Are you the one, or notJohn sends from prison to ask, and the answer is a list of what is happening rather than a title.
12. 12 By whose powerTwo Sabbath arguments, then the charge that he drives out demons by their prince, then a demand for a sign.
13. 13 A day of parables, from a boatSeven pictures in a row, and then he goes home and is not believed by the people who watched him grow up.
14. 14 A head on a dish, and five loavesJohn is executed at a birthday party; Jesus withdraws, is followed, feeds five thousand, and comes to them on the water.
15. 15 The argument she winsWashing hands becomes a question about what makes a person unclean, and then a foreign woman argues with him and wins.
16. 16 Who do you say I amA sign refused, a warning misheard as being about bread, and then the question at Caesarea Philippi.
17. 17 Changed on a mountainThree see him with Moses and Elijah; coming down, a father asks for a son the other nine could not help.
18. 18 A child, and one lost sheepWho is greatest is answered with a child; then the worth of the one that wandered, and how often to forgive.
19. 19 He went away sadDivorce, children brought to be blessed, a rich young man who cannot let go, and a camel at a needle's eye.
20. 20 Paid the same, whatever the hourWorkers hired late are paid like the first; then a third announcement, a request for the best seats, and two blind men.
21. 21 Into the city, and into the templeHe rides in on a donkey, drives the traders out, curses a fig tree, and refuses to say by what authority.
22. 22 Four questions, in a rowA feast nobody attends, then taxes, then a woman married seven times, then the greatest commandment, then one of his own.
23. 23 Seven times, the same wordA long denunciation of scribes and Pharisees, seven times beginning the same way, ending in a lament over the city.
24. 24 Nobody knows the dayTold the temple will fall, they ask when; most of the answer is about not being deceived and not knowing.
25. 25 Three pictures of waitingTen girls with lamps, three servants given money, and a judgment where the nations are separated.
26. 26 A price agreed, a meal eatenOintment poured out, a bargain struck, a Passover eaten, a garden, an arrest, and a trial that runs through the night.
27. 27 Washed handsJudas returns the money and dies; Pilate offers a choice, washes his hands, and hands him over.
28. 28 Paid to say the body was stolenTwo women come at dawn, meet him on the way, and the guards are paid to tell another story.

Marek 16/16

1. 1 At a run, from the first lineNo genealogy, no infancy: baptised, tested, four fishermen called, and a day that ends with a whole town at the door.
2. 2 Five scenes, five objectionsA roof opened, a tax collector called, a fast not kept, grain picked on a Sabbath: the case against him, laid out in order.
3. 3 The plan is madeThe objections become a decision: on the same day he restores a withered hand, the Pharisees take counsel with the Herodians about destroying him.
4. 4 A chapter of seedsThree parables about something sown, and one about a lamp that was never meant to stay under a basket.
5. 5 Three nobody could helpA man no chain could hold, a woman who had spent everything on physicians for twelve years, and a child already dead when help arrived.
6. 6 Turned away at homeIn his own town he could do no mighty work but lay hands on a few sick people; the twelve are sent out, and John is beheaded at a banquet.
7. 7 What comes out, not what goes inAn argument about washing hands becomes a question about where uncleanness begins, and a Greek woman wins the only argument anyone wins with him.
8. 8 The chapter the book turns onPeter says who he thinks Jesus is, and is immediately told something the disciples had never heard: that he is going to be killed.
9. 9 Down from the mountain, into an argumentThree see him shining and are told to listen; they come back to find the other nine unable to help a boy, and a quarrel underway.
10. 10 Asking to be let in, or moved upA test question, children the disciples turn away, a rich man who cannot let go, and two who want the best seats.
11. 11 He looked round at everything, and leftHe enters Jerusalem to shouting and spread cloaks, walks into the temple, looks at it all, and goes because it is late. He comes back the next day.
12. 12 A day of questions, and then silenceTaxes, a woman widowed seven times, the greatest commandment: he answers them all, and by the end nobody dares ask anything.
13. 13 Not one stone on anotherA disciple admires the temple's stones and is told what will become of them; four ask privately when, and the answer refuses the date.
14. 14 About one day, and the longest chapterPerfume poured out, one of the twelve going to the priests, a Passover meal, a garden, an arrest, and Peter denying him three times.
15. 15 Dawn to sunset, hour by hourThe council hands him to Pilate, Pilate to the soldiers, and by evening a member of that same council is asking for his body.
16. 16 Who will move the stoneThree women come at sunrise with spices, worrying about the stone, and find it already moved.

Lukáš 24/24

1. 1 A promise, twiceTwo annunciations and two songs: an old priest struck silent, a young woman who answers, and Mary's song of a world turned over.
2. 2 Registered, and laid in a troughAn emperor's census moves a family to Bethlehem; shepherds are told first, and two old people in the temple recognise the child.
3. 3 Dated by seven rulersThe word of God arrives in the desert, not the palace; John answers three groups about money, and a genealogy runs back to Adam.
4. 4 The reading that empties the roomTested in the desert, then home: he reads Isaiah, stops mid-sentence, and names two foreigners God sent prophets to.
5. 5 Leave everything, and followA night's empty nets fill; a leper is touched, a paralysed man is lowered through a roof, and a tax collector throws a party.
6. 6 Four blessings, four woesTwo Sabbath arguments, the choosing of twelve, and a sermon on level ground that blesses the poor and warns the comfortable.
7. 7 Nobody asked for this oneA centurion who never appears, a widow's only son stopped on his way to the grave, and a woman who washes his feet at a Pharisee's table.
8. 8 Who paid for the roadNamed women fund the travelling; then a sower, a storm ordered to stop, and two healings held together by the number twelve.
9. 9 He set his faceFive thousand fed, a mountain where his face changes, and the hinge: from here the whole book walks toward Jerusalem.
10. 10 Which of the three became a neighbourSeventy sent out two by two; a lawyer answers his own question, and the story that reverses it puts a Samaritan on the road.
11. 11 Teach us to prayThe prayer, a friend who gives in at midnight, and six statements beginning WOE, spoken at a dinner table rather than in public.
12. 12 The barns he never usedFive sparrows for two coins and none forgotten; a farmer who says I eleven times and dies that night; ravens, lilies, and a warning about division.
13. 13 Eighteen, three timesA massacre he refuses to read as punishment, a fig tree given one more year, and a woman bent for eighteen years straightened on a Sabbath.
14. 14 Invite the ones who cannot repayA whole chapter around a meal: where to sit, whom to ask, a supper nobody comes to, and the hardest sentence in the book.
15. 15 Lost, and foundA sheep, a coin and a son: three things lost, three searches, and a father who runs before the speech is finished.
16. 16 The only beggar with a nameA manager praised for being shrewd rather than honest, and a rich man who is never accused of anything except having a gate.
17. 17 One came backTen are cleansed and one returns, and the text keeps for last that he was a Samaritan; then a kingdom that arrives without a date.
18. 18 A widow who would not stopTwo prayers, a rich official who cannot let go, a third telling of what waits in Jerusalem that nobody understands, and a blind man who shouts louder.
19. 19 Up a tree, and down againA short, rich, unpopular man repays fourfold; the journey ends on a hill where he weeps over the city instead of entering it in triumph.
20. 20 Every trap answered from a bookAuthority, a vineyard, Caesar's coin, and a riddle about David: four attempts to catch him, each moved onto ground both sides accept.
21. 21 Everything she had to live onA widow's two coins, then the building they went into described as rubble, and a warning that names armies rather than a sign to decode.
22. 22 Two cups, and a lookA supper with a cup before the bread and a cup after; an argument about greatness at that same table; and the Lord turning to look at Peter.
23. 23 Nothing to execute him forPilate says he finds no fault three times and gives way; one of the two criminals is promised paradise, and the officer calls him righteous.
24. 24 Recognised at the breaking of breadThe women are not believed; two walk to Emmaus and know him only when he breaks bread; and the book ends in the temple where it began.

Jan 21/21

1. 1 Before anything, a WordThe gospel does not begin with a birth but before everything, and only later says the Word became a person you could stand beside.
2. 2 Six stone jars, and a whipThe wine runs out at a wedding and John calls what follows the beginning of the signs; then Jesus clears the temple at Passover.
3. 3 A teacher who comes at nightNicodemus arrives with a compliment and gets an answer he cannot follow, turning on a phrase that means both born again and born from above.
4. 4 A drink asked for at noonAt a well in Samaria a conversation about water becomes one about husbands and about where God should be worshipped.
5. 5 Thirty-eight years, and a SabbathA man ill for thirty-eight years is told to take up his mat and walk, and the objection is not the healing but the day.
6. 6 Five loaves, and a hard sayingFive thousand are fed and the crowd follows him across the lake; what he says next empties the room, and the editions divide over how he served the bread.
7. 7 The crowd cannot agreeHe goes to the feast late and quietly, and once he teaches in the temple nobody can settle what he is: a good man, a deceiver, or the one they were waiting for.
8. 8 Nobody starts the stoningA woman is brought in at dawn and he refuses to begin; then he says he is the light of the world, and the argument grows steadily harder.
9. 9 A whole chapter of afterwardsA man born blind is given his sight in two verses, and everything else is the questioning: neighbours, Pharisees, parents, then the man again.
10. 10 The door, and the shepherdHe is both the way in and the one who stays when it costs, and his hearers divide again over whether he is out of his mind.
11. 11 Four days, and two sistersHe waits two days before going, arrives to a tomb four days closed, speaks with each sister differently, and weeps.
12. 12 Perfume, palms, and a decisionMary pours out a jar worth a year's wages, a crowd meets him with palm branches, and Greeks ask to see him.
13. 13 A towel, and a basinAt supper he gets up, ties a towel round his waist and washes their feet; Peter tries to stop him, and afterwards he explains why they must do the same.
14. 14 Do not let your heart be troubledThere is room in his Father's house; Thomas says they do not know the way, and Philip asks to be shown the Father.
15. 15 The vine, and the branchesA branch cut from the vine can do nothing; remain, he says, and the commandment is to love one another as he has loved them.
16. 16 Better for you that I goHe warns them they will be put out and killed by people who think they are serving God, and says his going is what makes the Helper come.
17. 17 One prayer, said out loudThe whole chapter is a prayer with the disciples listening: first about himself, then for the eleven, then for everyone who will believe through them.
18. 18 Let these others goHe gives himself up in a garden and asks that the rest be released; Peter draws a sword, and then denies him beside a fire.
19. 19 The inscription, in three languagesPilate keeps trying to release him and keeps being pushed back; the title over the cross is written so everyone can read it.
20. 20 Mistaken for the gardenerMary finds the tomb open before dawn; two disciples race to it, and she stays behind crying until he says her name.
21. 21 Breakfast on the shoreA night's empty net comes up full; they eat by a charcoal fire, and then he asks Peter the same question three times.

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