Today's Bibliomancy for Bob Dylan

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:

and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

EST 9:32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

EST 10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

EST 10:2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

EST 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great

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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:

GEN 35:25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

GEN 35:26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.

GEN 35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

GEN 35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

GEN 35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

GEN 36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

GEN 36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah 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:

of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

EZE 36:31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

EZE 36:32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

EZE 36:33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

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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:

work:

CO2 9:9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

CO2 9:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

CO2 9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

CO2 9:12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

CO2 9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God

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