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This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
12 To the assembly’s messenger in Pergamum write:
The one with the sharp sword says these things: 13 “I know where you live: where Satan’s throne is. Despite that, you firmly believe in me and you haven’t denied your faith in me, even when Antipas, the faithful man who told others about me was killed in your city, where Satan lives. 14 But I do have a few things against you: you have some people there who hold to the ancient prophet Balaam’s teaching.[ref] He taught Moab’s king, Balak, how to tempt the Israelis and to eat food that had been sacrificed to idols, and to be sexually immoral. 15 In the same way, some of you also follow the teachings of Nicolaus’ disciples.[fn] 16 So turn away from all that, otherwise I’ll come soon and battle against them with the word of my mouth.
17 Everyone who wants to understand needs to listen to what God’s spirit is saying to the assemblies.
Anyone who stays true will be given hidden food from heaven, and I’ll give each of them a white stone with a new name written on it that no one knows apart from the person receiving it.”[ref]
2:15 They eat food that has been sacrificed to idols, and they commit sexual sins.
2:14: a Num 22:5,7; 31:16; Deu 23:4; b Num 25:1-3.
2:17: a Exo 16:14-15; 16:33-34; Yhn 6:48-50; b Isa 62:2; 65:15.
Num 22:5,7:
5 and he sent messengers to Beor’s son Bileam (Balaam) at Petor (which was their tribal land near the Euphrates river). He requested help, saying, “Listen, there’s a population here that came out from Egypt. Wow, they’ve covered the entire surface in this region and they’re living opposite me.[ref]
7 So the elders from Moav and from Midyan departed carrying the fees for divination with them, and they went to Bileam and passed Balak’s words on to him.
31:16:
16 “They’re the very ones who did what Bileam (Balaam) suggested to urge the people to be unfaithful to Yahweh at Peor, leading to the deadly disease that struck Yahweh’s people.[ref]
Deu 23:4:
4 since they wouldn’t even sell you bread and water when the people were travelling from Egypt to Canaan. What’s more, they hired Beor’s son Bil’am (Balaam) (from Petor in Aram-Naharayim) to curse you
Num 25:1-3:
25 Meanwhile, the Israelis settled down at Shittim, and their men started sleeping with women from Moav 2 who then invited them to sacrifices to their idols. So the Israelis bowed down to the idols and ate at the feasts, 3 and when Yisrael consecrated themselves to Baal-Peor, Yahweh’s anger burnt towards them.
Exo 16:14-15:
14 and when it evaporated, wow, it left behind thin flakes—thin like frost on the ground there in the wilderness. 15 When the Israelis saw it, they asked each other, ‘What is it?’ because they didn’t know what it was.
And Mosheh told them, “It’s the food that Yahweh has given you all to eat.[ref]
16:33-34:
33 So Mosheh said to Aharon, “Take a jar and fill it with the full two litres of manna. Place it in front of Yahweh for preservation for your descendants.”[ref] 34 So Aharon prepared the jar and kept it (and would eventually place it in the box with the stone tablets.)
Yhn 6:48-50:
48 I am the bread that gives true life. 49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, but they all went on to die. 50 But I am the bread that came down from heaven and anyone who eats this will not die.
Isa 62:2:
2 Then the other nations will see your righteousness,
≈ and all kings will see your glory.
and you’ll be called by a new name that Yahweh himself will give.
65:15:
15 Your names will remain in your language as curse words for my chosen ones,
