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:

the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,

LUK 20:2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?

LUK 20:3 And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:

LUK 20:4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?

LUK 20:5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?

LUK 20:6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.

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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:

EXO 30:2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.

EXO 30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.

EXO 30:4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.

EXO 30:5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

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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:

saidst, Fear not.

LAM 3:58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

LAM 3:59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

LAM 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

LAM 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

LAM 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

LAM 3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their

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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:

the law?

GAL 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

GAL 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

GAL 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

GAL 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

GAL 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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