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Receive what the Lord has entrusted to you and be joyful, giving thanks to him who has called you to heavenly kingdoms.
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Rise and stand, and see at the feast of the Lord the number of those who have been sealed.
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Those who have departed from the shadow of this age have received glorious garments from the Lord.
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Take again your full number, O Zion, and conclude the list of your people who are clothed in white, who have fulfilled the law of the Lord.
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The number of your children, whom you desired, is full; beseech the Lord's power that your people, who have been called from the beginning, may be made holy."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.