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:

ZEC 8:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

ZEC 8:15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

ZEC 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

ZEC 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, 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:

of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

CO2 3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

CO2 3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

CO2 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

CO2 3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

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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:

given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.

NEH 13:6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:

NEH 13:7 And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

NEH 13:8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff to Tobiah out of the chamber.

NEH 13:9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither

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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:

that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

EXO 27:6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

EXO 27:7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

EXO 27:8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

EXO 27:9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

EXO 27:10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall

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