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And make me witnesses of faithful men, Urias, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.

And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself is his portion, as he said to him.

Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against me.

And if thy brother do not come nigh thee, and thou dost not know him, thou shalt bring it into thy house within; and it shall be with thee until thy brother shall seek them, and thou shalt restore them to him.

And Jothor the father-in-law of Moses, took Sepphora the wife of Moses after she had been sent away,

Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.

And Abraam said concerning Sarrha his wife, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife, lest at any time the men of the city should kill him for her sake. So Abimelech king of Gerara sent and took Sarrha.

And the seven ill-favoured and lean cows devoured the seven well-favoured and choice-fleshed cows; and Pharao awoke.

And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,

I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

And Sarrha died in the city of Arboc, which is in the valley, this is Chebron in the land of Chanaan; and Abraam came to lament for Sarrha and to mourn.

For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.

It is vain for you to rise early: ye rise up after resting, ye that eat the bread of grief; while he gives sleep to his beloved.

And he judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Samir.

And the king took the ring which he had taken away from Aman, and gave it to Mardochaeus: and Esther appointed Mardochaeus over all that had been Aman's.

And Joas did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days that Jodae the priest instructed him.

Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation: then would they say among the Gentiles,

And when Balac son of Sepphor saw all that Israel did to the Amorite,

Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them.

And the Lord said to Ju, Because of all thy deeds wherein thou hast acted well in doing that which was right in my eyes, according to all things which thou hast done to the house of Achaab as they were in my heart, thy sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.

Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart.

If however thou wilt not send my people away, but yet detainest them:

And if there should be found in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord thy God, so as to transgress his covenant,

if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us;

I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market-places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Behold, as the eyes of servants are directed to the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maidservant to the hands of her mistress; so our eyes are directed to the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive, Reign over us.

And he found the records written concerning Mardochaeus, how he had told the king concerning the two chamberlains of the king, when they were keeping guard, and sought to lay hands on Artaxerxes.

And she looked, and, behold, the king stood near a pillar according to the manner; and the singers and the trumpeters were before the king and all the people of the land even rejoicing and sounding with trumpets: and Gotholia rent her garments, and cried, A conspiracy, a conspiracy.

As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and sees Israel encamped by their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

And Pharao was wroth with his two eunuchs, with his chief cupbearer, and with his chief baker.

He that is fractured or mutilated in his private parts shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.

The mountains are round about her, and so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth and even for ever.

Take men from the people, one of each tribe,

and they said, The Lord commanded our lord to render the land of inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and the Lord appointed our lord to give the inheritance of Salpaad our brother to his daughters.

And David comes to Nomba to Abimelech the priest: and Abimelech was amazed at meeting him, and said to him, Why art thou alone, and nobody with thee?

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

While the sun and light are not darkened, nor the moon and the stars; nor the clouds return after the rain:

Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Joadim of Jerusalem.

Take the sum of all the congregation of Israel according to their kindreds, according to the houses of their fathers' families, according to their number by their names, according to their heads: every male

And Jonathan said to him, Far be it from thee: thou shalt not die: behold, my father will not do any thing great or small without discovering it to me; and why should my father hide this matter from me? This thing is not so.

A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

Make to thyself two silver trumpets: thou shalt make them of beaten work; and they shall be to thee for the purpose of calling the assembly, and of removing the camps.

And all the tribes of Israel stood before the Lord in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

And there gathered to him every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was troubled in mind; and he was a leader over them, and there were with him about four hundred men.

And thou shalt take the cruse of oil, and pour it on his head, and say thou, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel: and thou shalt open the door, and flee, and not tarry.

And the wife of Galaad bore him sons; and the sons of his wife grew up, and they cast out Jephthae, and said to him, Thou shalt not inherit in the house of our father, for thou art the son of a concubine.

Our feet stood in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine.

In that day the adversaries of the Jews perished: for no one resisted, through fear of them.

Thy navel is as a turned bowl, not wanting liquor; thy belly is as a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

And the people reviled Moses, saying, Give us water, that we may drink; and Moses said to them, Why do ye revile me, and why tempt ye the Lord?

lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God?

And he said to them, What have I now done in comparison of you? is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

And his master knew that the Lord was with him, and the Lord prospers in his hands whatsoever he happens to do.

A good name is better than good oil; and the day of death than the day of birth.

a man to whom God shall give wealth, and substance, and honour, and he wants nothing for his soul of all things that he shall desire, yet God shall not give him power to eat of it, for a stranger shall devour it: this is vanity, and an evil infirmity.

And it came to pass after three days, that the scribes went through the camp;

And sons were born to David in Chebron: and his first-born was Ammon the son of Achinoom the Jezraelitess.

And he went with them, and they came to Jordan, and began to cut down wood.

Observe the commandment of the king, and that because of the word of the oath of God.

Judea became his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.

And Jonathan, Saul's son, loved David much: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul seeks to kill thee: take heed to thyself therefore to-morrow morning, and hide thyself, and dwell in secret.

and I praised all the dead that had already died more than the living, as many as are alive until now.

For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool's voice is with a multitude of words.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatever man shall have an issue out of his body, his issue is unclean.

My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.

And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now then, as soon as this letter shall reach thee, behold, I have sent to thee my servant Naiman, and thou shalt recover him from his leprosy.

A time of birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted;

If any man should have in the skin of his flesh a bright clear spot, and there should be in the skin of his flesh a plague of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests.

And she conceived and bore a son again; and called his name, Aunan.

Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Lo! lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning ye shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the street.

And thou shalt sacrifice the passover to the Lord thy God, sheep and oxen in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called upon it.

And Saul and the men of Israel gather together, and they encamp in the valley, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

and I will come upon him when he is weary and weak-handed, and I will strike him with terror; and all the people with him shall flee, and I will smite the king only of all.

and they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes, and before all the congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness, saying,

That ye may fear the Lord your God, keep ye all his ordinances, and his commandments, which I command thee to-day, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, all the days of thy life, that ye may live many days.

And this is the land that is left: the borders of the Phylistines, the Gesirite, and the Chananite,

I said to laughter, Madness: and to mirth, Why doest thou this:

The works of the Lord are great, sought out according to all his will.

For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men.

And the king of Moab saw that the battle prevailed against him; and he took with him seven hundred men that drew sword, to cut through to the king of Edom: and they could not.

And Elisaie said, What shall I do for thee? tell me what thou hast in the house. And she said, Thy servant has nothing in the house, except oil wherewith I anoint myself.

When the righteous are praised, the people will rejoice: but when the ungodly rule, men mourn.

then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, thou shalt lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.

and Moses said to Aaron, Take to thyself a young calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and a ram for a whole-burnt-offering, unblemished, and offer them before the Lord.

Give orders to the children of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities to dwell in from the lot of their possession, and they shall give to the Levites the suburbs of the cities round about them.

His seed shall be mighty in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

Let the name of the Lord be blessed, from this present time and for ever.

What wilt thou keep, my son, what? the words of God. My firstborn son, I speak to thee: what? son of my womb? what? son of my vows?

Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

The Lord shall send out a rod of power for thee out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

An it was reported to the king of Jericho, saying, Men of the sons of Israel have come in hither to spy the land.

Let thy neighbour, and not thine own mouth, praise thee; a stranger, and not thine own lips.