Today's Bibliomancy for Kurt Vonnegut

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:

MAT 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

MAT 24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

MAT 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

MAT 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

MAT 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

MAT 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no

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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:

PSA 139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

PSA 139:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

PSA 139:18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

PSA 139:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

PSA 139:20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

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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:

NUM 2:17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.

NUM 2:18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

NUM 2:19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

NUM 2:20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

NUM 2:21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were

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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:

children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.

NUM 30:2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

NUM 30:3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;

NUM 30:4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

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