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:

DEU 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

DEU 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

DEU 30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

DEU 30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

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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:

Amalek.

CH1 18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

CH1 18:13 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

CH1 18:14 So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.

CH1 18:15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.

CH1 18:16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

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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:

charges by their courses;

CH2 31:18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

CH2 31:19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

CH2 31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

CH2 31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house

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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:

PSA 91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

PSA 91:12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

PSA 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

PSA 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

PSA 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

PSA 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

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