Clean Garments for the High Priest
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Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before
the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
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The LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan!
The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you!
Is not this man a burnig stick snatched from the fire?"
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Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.
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The angel said to those who were standing before him,
"Take off his filthy clothes." Then he said to Joshua,
"See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put rich garments on you."
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Then I said, "Put a clean turban on his head."
So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him,
while the angel of the LORD stood by.
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The angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:
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"This is what the LORD Almighty says:
'If you will walk in my ways and keep my requirements,
then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts,
and I will give you a place among these standing here.
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" 'Listen O high priest Joshua and your assoiciates seated before you,
who are men symbolic of things to come:
I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.
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See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua!
There are seven eyes on that one stone,
and I will engrave an inscriptionon it.
' says the LORD Almighty, '
and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.
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"In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit
under his vine and fig tree,' declares the LORD Almighty."