Independence Day

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"So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."   John 8:36

Repose

"... He leads me beside still waters."   Psalm 23:2

Sesamum indicum

"You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart."   Psalm 104:14-15

Patriarch

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"even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will"   Ephesians 1:4-5

Centaurea cyanus

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"yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."   Matthew 6:29

Cumulus

"Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,"   Job 37:16

Cachinnation

"He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting"   Job 8:21

Precipice

Kickapoo River

"And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided."   Genesis 8:1b

Quercus

"If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie."   Ecclesiastes 11:3

Escalonia

"You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth"   Psalm 104:14

Paeoniaceae

Peony

"As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field"   Psalm 103:15

Crepuscule

"He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting."   Psalm 104:19

Connubial

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."   Genesis 2:24

Artifice

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"He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer."   Exodus 35:35

Cycle

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven"   Ecclesiastes 3:1

Ambrosia

"...who richly provides us with everything to enjoy."   1 Timothy 6:17b

Euphony

"...The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music,"   2 Chronicles 34:12b

Chroma

Poppy

"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these."   Luke 12:27

Behest

"In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."   Proverbs 3:6

Bravura

"...He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him..."   2 Chronicles 2:14