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

They seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God: they now ask of me righteous judgment, and desire to draw nigh to God,

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.

This is the constitution of the law, as the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take for thee a red heifer without spot, which has no spot on her, and on which no yoke has been put.

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

Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term of life was lost.

Cloud, and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away his face from you, so as not to have mercy upon you.

Thus saith the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain?

And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, declare thou to her all her iniquities.

And the people were numbered, and there was not there a man from the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad.

And Samuel died, and all Israel lamented for him, and they bury him in his city, in Armathaim. And Saul had removed those who had in them divining spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he rent his garments, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to recover a man of his leprosy? consider, however, I pray you, and see that this man seeks an occasion against me.

saying, Let us break through their bonds, and cast away their yoke from us.

Give heed with your ears, and follow my ways: hearken to me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the sure mercies of David.

And Jacob said, when he saw them, This is the Camp of God; and he called the name of that place, Encampments.

And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand the Lord brought you forth thence; and leaven shall not be eaten.

God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

spread forth thy tent yet to the right and the left: for thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and thou shalt make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy might.

Let not the stranger who attaches himself to the Lord, say, Surely the Lord will separate me from his people: and let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree.

All these met with one consent at the salt valley; this is the sea of salt.

And he shall be as a tree planted by the brooks of waters, which shall yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not fall off; and whatsoever he shall do shall be prospered.

And this is the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and thou shalt give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:

Why dost thou, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in thy mischief? All the day

But his form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; he was a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for his face is turned from us: he was dishonoured, and not esteemed.

And he said to her, Go, borrow for thyself vessels without of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

For I am conscious of mine iniquity; and my sin is continually before me.

But if the sun be risen upon him, he is guilty, he shall die instead; and if a thief have nothing, let him be sold in compensation for what he has stolen.

He has set a bound to darkness, and he searches out every limit: a stone is darkness, and the shadow of death.

And now I will comfort thee, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

For thus saith the Lord, Ye have been sold for nought; and ye shall not be ransomed with silver.

and Arsola, and Bola, and Jason,

God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

and said to me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, and in thee I will be glorified.

I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth.

And David dwelt with Anchus, he and his men, each with his family; and David and both his wives, Achinaam, the Jezraelitess, and Abigaia the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

and they that have proceeded out of my mouth, and it became well known; I wrought suddenly, and the events came to pass.

And he spared his people, and all his sanctified ones are under thy hands; and they are under thee; and he received of his words

And the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Massepha: and the children of Israel came and said, Tell us, where did this wickedness take place?

both the sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together.

Even a refuge to the slayer who has smitten a man unintentionally; and the cities shall be to you a refuge, and the slayer shall not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he have stood before the congregation for judgment.

The city of the great King is well planted on the mountains of Sion, with the joy of the whole earth, on the sides of the north.

and the wilderness, and the country round about Jericho, the city of palm-trees, to Segor.

And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die.

And he went whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Baethel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Baethel and Aggai,

And he took his eldest son whom he had designed to reign in his stead, and offered him up for a whole-burnt-offering on the walls. And there was a great indignation against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their land.

And the sons of the prophets who were in Baethel came to Elisaie, and said to him, Dost thou know, that the Lord this day is going to take thy lord away from thy head? And he said, Yea, I know it; be silent.

Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?

Let now the house of Aaron say, that he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

Thy shame shall be uncovered, thy reproaches shall be brought to light: I will exact of thee due vengeance, I will no longer deliver thee to men.

And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.

On the fourteenth day of the first month at even, thou shalt keep it in its season; thou shalt keep it according to its law, and according to its ordinance.

And they said to him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a leathern girdle about his loins. And he said, This is Eliu the Thesbite.

And they that encamp first toward the east shall be the order of the camp of Juda with their host, and the prince of the sons of Juda, Naasson the son of Aminadab.

And her husband rose up, and went after her to speak kindly to her, to recover her to himself; and he had his young man with him, and a pair of asses; and she brought him into the house of her father; and the father of the damsel saw him, and was well pleased to meet him.

For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth.

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, I will open to thee hidden, unseen treasures, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord thy God, that call thee by name, am the God of Israel.

Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.

For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves thee: I have made Egypt and Ethiopia thy ransom, and given Soene for thee.

and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded thee not to do,

A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but he shall bring forth judgment to truth.

and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs?

O wicked imagination, whence camest thou in to cover the earth with deceit?

For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon thy children:

And the people thirsted there for water, and there the people murmured against Moses, saying, Why is this? hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to slay us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

And the king of Israel called a eunuch and said, Bring hither quickly Michaias son of Jemblaa.

Thou art more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on thy lips: therefore God has blessed thee for ever.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

And he shall pursue them; the way of his feet shall proceed in peace.

And the priest shall view the spot in the skin of his flesh; and if the hair in the spot be changed to white, and the appearance of the spot be below the skin of the flesh, it is a plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look upon it, and pronounce him unclean.

in the house of Michaias, and they recognised the voice of the young man the Levite, and turned in thither; and said to him, Who brought thee in hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

One is childless in want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.

Thine hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict the nations, and cast them out.

And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, How long will ye be slack to inherit the land, which the Lord our God has given you?

Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, and to thy tabernacles.

He seals up the hand of every man, that every man may know his own weakness.

And thou shalt say to them, These are the burnt-offerings, all that ye shall bring to the Lord; two lambs of a year old without blemish daily, for a whole-burnt offering perpetually.

For I have called on the name of the Lord: assign ye greatness to our God.

And the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigaia: and his wife was of good understanding and very beautiful in person: but the man was harsh, and evil in his doings, and the man was churlish.

And I will bless those that bless thee, and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.

Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month let them take each man a lamb according to the houses of their families, every man a lamb for his household.

Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before thee in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in thy sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly.

Gird thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

And Esaias the prophet came to king Ezekias, and said to him, What say these men? and whence came they to thee? and Ezekias said, They are come to me from a land afar off, from Babylon.

And Salpaad the sons of Opher had no sons but daughters: and these are the names of the daughters of Salpaad; Maala, and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa.

And there went forth to him Heliakim the steward, the son of Chelcias, and Somnas the scribe, and Joach the son of Asaph, the recorder.

May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.

And the spirit of Achaab was troubled, and he lay down upon his bed, and covered his face, and ate no bread.

And the Lord gave his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, and they lent to them; and the man Moses was very great before the Egyptians, and before Pharao, and before his servants.

Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did in the case of Beel-phegor; for every man that went after Beel-phegor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him from among you.

Having fetched my knowledge from afar, and according to my works,

and assemble the whole congregation at the door of the tabernacle of witness.

And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

Be strong, ye relaxed hands and palsied knees.

And Rachel said to Jacob, Behold my handmaid Balla, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her.

To-day is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger: for the pangs are come upon the travailing woman, but she has not strength to bring forth.

And the men of David said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judea; and how shall it be if we go to Keila? Shall we go after the spoils of the Philistines?