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:

ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

JDG 2:3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

JDG 2:4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

JDG 2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

JDG 2:6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel

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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:

themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

LAM 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

LAM 2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

LAM 2:13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee,

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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:

by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

NUM 3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.

NUM 3:17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

NUM 3:18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.

NUM 3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

NUM 3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi.

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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:

playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

LEV 21:10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

LEV 21:11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

LEV 21:12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

LEV 21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

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