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The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him.

A perverse man spreads mischief, and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs; and he separates friends.

For what did he give to Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God do it against whom they sinned? and they would not walk in his ways, nor hearken to his law.

And ye shall eat abundantly, and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the Lord your God for the things which he has wrought wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed for ever.

And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hearken to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What is it?

Men shall enter thither with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be barren ground and thorns.

The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell.

even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:

A prudent man is the crown of the wise: but the occupation of fools is evil.

For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

He that spares the rod hates his son: but he that loves, carefully chastens him.

And Jeremias said to the people, and to the women, Hear ye the word of the Lord.

And they all shall come upon thee from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against thee round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on thee with their judgments.

The hand of chosen men shall easily obtain rule; but the deceitful shall be for a prey.

And the king of Babylon smote them in Deblatha, in the land of Aemath.

And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraam and Isaac and Jacob.

Should there be fifty righteous in the city, wilt thou destroy them? wilt thou not spare the whole place for the sake of the fifty righteous, if they be in it?

Remove from thee a froward mouth, and put far away from thee unjust lips.

For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

And they came to the valley of the cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staves, and they took of the pomegranates and the figs.

And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a rest, a memorial of trumpets: it shall be to you a holy convocation.

And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.

But my servant Chaleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.

And the sons of Core, Asir, and Elkana, and Abiasar, these are the generations of Core.

That which has broken testicles, or is crushed or gelt or mutilated, thou shalt not offer them to the Lord, neither shall ye sacrifice them upon your land.

And Moses spoke to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

then it shall come to pass, if a trespass be committed unwillingly, unknown to the congregation, then shall all the congregation offer a calf of the herd without blemish for a whole-burnt-offering of sweet savour to the Lord, and its meat-offering and its drink-offering according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger?

And God came to Laban the Syrian in sleep by night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not at any time to Jacob evil things.

And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and ye shall destroy their name from that place; none shall stand up in opposition before thee, until thou shalt have utterly destroyed them.

And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bathuel the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.

and I said to you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession, even a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all people.

Speak to the congregation, saying, Depart from the company of Core round about.

This is the day which the Lord has made: let us exult and rejoice in it.

These the sons of Balla, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, who bore these to Jacob; all the souls, seven.

Thou shalt not worship their gods, nor serve them: thou shalt not do according to their works, but shalt utterly destroy them, and break to pieces their pillars.

And all the Egyptians dug round about the river, so as to drink water, for they could not drink water from the river.

And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a subject of praise to the Lord.

On the third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Chaelon.

Because I have given as a distinct portion to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the children of Israel, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord; therefore I said to them, In the midst of the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

Except what things the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Eschol, Aunan, Mambre, these shall take a portion.

The Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed thee, and until it shall have quickly consumed thee.

Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drive out before you,

And all that went in at the gate of their city hearkened to Emmor and Sychem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.

And the people said to Joshua, We will serve the Lord, and we will hearken to his voice.

And when Moses saw that the people was scattered, for Aaron had scattered them so as to be a rejoicing to their enemies,

Let Aaron be added to his people; for ye shall certainly not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because ye provoked me at the water of strife.

I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will smite you seven times for your sins.

And he shall bathe his body in water in the holy place, and shall put on his raiment, and shall go out and offer the whole-burnt-offering for himself and the whole-burnt-offering for the people: and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and for the people, as for the priests.

And Israel smote him with the slaughter of the sword, and they became possessors of his land, from Arnon to Jaboc, as far as the children of Amman, for Jazer is the borders of the children of Amman.

And Pharao said, I will let you go, and do ye sacrifice to your God in the wilderness, but do not go very far away: pray then for me to the Lord.

And the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a whole-burnt-offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean flux.

And the angel of the Lord stood in the avenues of the vines, a fence being on this side and a fence on that.

Cursed is he that smites his neighbour secretly: and all the people shall say, So be it.

This is the public service of the family of Gedson, to minister and to bear.

But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; thence is he that strengthened Israel from the God of thy father;

And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the cup of oil, and place them for a set-offering before the Lord.

So there was hail and flaming fire mingled with hail; and the hail was very great, such as was not in Egypt, from the time there was a nation upon it.

And the days were fulfilled that she should be delivered, and she had twins in her womb.

And we said to him, We are men of peace, we are not spies.

And one shall come forth from the hands of the Citians, and shall afflict Assur, and shall afflict the Hebrews, and they shall perish together.

The Lord bless thee and keep thee;

Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion's whelp, and shall exalt himself as a lion; he shall not lie down till he have eaten the prey, and he shall drink the blood of the slain.

And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, saying, Go, serve the Lord your God, only leave your sheep and your oxen, and let your store depart with you.

and ye said, Behold, the Lord our God has shewn us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.

And if the flesh be in his skin in a state of fiery inflammation, and there should be in his skin the part which is healed of the inflammation, bright, clear, and white, suffused with red or very white;

The sons of Gad according to their families: to Saphon, the family of the Saphonites; to Angi, the family of the Angites; to Suni, the family of the Sunites;

And keep ye this thing as an ordinance for thyself and for thy children for ever.

Thou shalt observe the words that proceed from between thy lips; and as thou hast vowed a gift to the Lord God, so shalt thou do that which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.

ye shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the damsel, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbour's spouse: so shalt thou remove the evil one from yourselves.

And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.

Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be your; from the wilderness and Antilibanus, and from the great river, the river Euphrates, even as far as the west sea shall be your coasts.

And as for the word which I have told Pharao, whatsoever God intends to do, he has shewn to Pharao:

And it came to pass in the morning watch that the Lord looked forth on the camp of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and troubled the camp of the Egyptians,

these shall ye thus offer daily for seven days, a gift, a sacrifice for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord; beside the continual whole-burnt-offering, thou shalt offer its drink-offering.

And by these ye shall be defiled; every one that touches their carcases shall be unclean till the evening.

And they arose in the morning, and swore each to his neighbour; and Isaac sent them forth, and they departed from him in safety.

There shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings to the calves and the rams and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.

And the ruler of the household of the family of Gedson was Elisaph the son of Dael.

And he took them, and passed over the torrent, and brought over all his possessions.

And fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured the offerings on the altar, both the whole-burnt-offerings and the fat; and all the people saw, and were amazed, and fell upon their faces.

And Arphaxad begot Cainan, and Cainan begot Sala. And Sala begot Heber.

And they said to Joshua, The Lord has delivered all the land into our power, and all the inhabitants of that land tremble because of us.

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

And he shall cause the woman to drink the water of the conviction that brings the curse; and the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her.

And on the seventh day ye shall wash your garments, and be clean; and afterwards ye shall come into the camp.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.

And Moses said, Eat that to-day, for to-day is a sabbath to the Lord: it shall not be found in the plain.

And he took the fat, and the rump, and the fat on the belly, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder.

And ye shall build for yourselves cities for your store, and folds for your cattle; and ye shall do that which proceeds out of your mouth.

And thou shalt make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet woven, and fine linen spun: thou shalt make it cherubs in woven work.

And in the year of release the land shall be restored to the man of whom the other bought it, whose the possession of the land was.

And Esau was angry with Jacob because of the blessing, with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his mind, Let the days of my father's mourning draw nigh, that I may slay my brother Jacob.

And Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did whatsoever he said to him.

And the Lord charged us to observe all these ordinances; to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even to-day.

And they departed from Saphar, and encamped in Charadath.

And the city was burnt with fire with all things that were in it; only of the silver, and gold, and brass, and iron, they gave to be brought into the treasury of the Lord.

Ye shall make to me an altar of earth; and upon it ye shall sacrifice your whole burnt-offerings, and your peace-offerings, and your sheep and your calves in every place, where I shall record my name; and I will come to thee and bless thee.