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Our Hebrew Lesson comes from Luke 12:13-21

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide

the family inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Friend, who set

me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them, “Take

care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does

not consist in the abundance of possessions.” Then he told them a

parable: “The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought

to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’

Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger

ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to

my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat,

drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your

life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared,

whose will they be?’ So it is with those who store up treasures for

themselves but are not rich toward God.”

THE WORD OF GOD FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD!