Today's Bibliomancy for Rudi Bakhtiar

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:

drieth the bones.

PRO 17:23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

PRO 17:24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

PRO 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

PRO 17:26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

PRO 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

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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:

DEU 22:17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

DEU 22:18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

DEU 22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

DEU 22:20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not

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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:

GEN 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

GEN 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

GEN 49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

GEN 49:20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

GEN 49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

GEN 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

GEN 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and

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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:

to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

NUM 10:19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

NUM 10:20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

NUM 10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.

NUM 10:22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

NUM 10:23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh

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