| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 27: 20 And thou shalt put of thy honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may hearken.
Numbers 27: 21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD; at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.'
Numbers 27: 22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation.
Numbers 27: 23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD spoke by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 28: 1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
Numbers 28: 2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them: My food which is presented unto Me for offerings made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Me, shall ye observe to offer unto Me in its due season.
Numbers 28: 3 And thou shalt say unto them: This is the offering made by fire which ye shall bring unto the LORD: he-lambs of the first year without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt-offering.
Numbers 28: 4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at dusk;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: foolish, for not a word can they extract from her. Then they
threaten and try to terrify her by saying that if she does not
speak she will soon have reason to repent of her folly, for they
are going to do such a wonderful thing to her that such a thing
was never done to the body of any wretched woman. "We know that
you are alive, and will not deign to speak to us. We know that
you are feigning death, and would thus deceive the emperor. Have
no fear of us! If any of us has angered you, before we do you
further harm, cease your mad behaviour now, for you are acting
wickedly; and we will lend you our aid in any enterprise--wise
or mad." But it cannot be; they have no success. Then they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: Hintock House, whence, as he knew, it would at once be forwarded
to her.
Melbury feeling that he had done so good an action in coming as
almost to extenuate his previous arbitrary conduct to nothing,
went home; and Giles was left alone to the suspense of waiting for
a reply from the divinity who shaped the ends of the Hintock
population. By this time all the villagers knew of the
circumstances, and being wellnigh like one family, a keen interest
was the result all round.
Everybody thought of Giles; nobody thought of Marty. Had any of
them looked in upon her during those moonlight nights which
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