Today's Bibliomancy for Steve Martin

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible:

him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.

ISA 39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

ISA 39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

ISA 39:6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible:

from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

SA2 21:13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

SA2 21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

SA2 21:15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the

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The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible:

stand before envy?

PRO 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.

PRO 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

PRO 27:7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

PRO 27:8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

PRO 27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

PRO 27:10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not;

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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible:

and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

JOH 14:4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

JOH 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

JOH 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

JOH 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

JOH 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

JOH 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and

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