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And Zabulon did not drive out the inhabitants of Kedron, nor the inhabitants of Domana: and the Chananite dwelt in the midst of them, and became tributary to them.

And Abessalom said to his servants, Behold, Joab's portion in the field is next to mine, and he has in it barley; go and set it on fire. And the servants of Abessalom set the field on fire: and the servants of Joab come to him with their clothes rent, and they said to him, The servants of Abessalom have set the field on fire.

And the herald of the army stood at sunset, saying, Let every man go to his own city and his own land,

(Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against any one,

Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel in mount Gebal,

Surely if the people had this day eaten freely of the spoils of their enemies which they found, the slaughter among the Philistines would have been greater.

And the king said, Turn aside, stand still here. And he turned aside, and stood.

So Moab was humbled in that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years; and Aod judged them till he died.

Adroi of the brooks.

Will they not find him dividing the spoil? he will surely be gracious to every man: there are spoils of dyed garments for Sisara, spoils of various dyed garments, dyed embroidered garments, they are the spoils for his neck.

And the men of the city said to Joas, Bring out thy son, and let him die, because he has destroyed the altar of Baal, and because he has destroyed the grove that is by it.

A foolish man is like a farm, and a senseless man is like a vineyard.

Be not ready to quarrel with a man without a cause, lest he do thee some harm.

For if thou shouldest set thine eyes on bowls and cups, thou shalt afterwards go more naked than a pestle.

A horse is prepared for the day of battle; but help is of the Lord.

And this shall be a sign to thee, Eat this year what thou hast sown; and the second year that which is left: and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

And I will establish his seed for ever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

brought this upon thee, in that thou wentest a-whoring after the nations, and didst defile thyself with their devices.

And the poor shall be fed by him, and poor men shall rest in peace: but he shall destroy thy seed with hunger, and shall destroy thy remnant.

But, behold, this have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many devices.

There are the princes of the north, even all the captains of Assur, who go down slain to Hades: they lie uncircumcised among the slain with the sword together with their terror and their strength, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit.

I was by him, suiting myself to him, I was that wherein he took delight; and daily I rejoiced in his presence continually.

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim king of Juda; He shall not have a man to sit on the throne of David: and his carcass shall be cast forth in the heat by day, and in the frost by night.

Why should I make a covenant with thy daughter, saith the Lord, while thou doest all these things, the works of a harlot? and thou hast gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with thy daughters.

and made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt nor troubled them.

ye are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.

They approach thee as a people comes together, and sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions.

For they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a garden that has no water.

The daughter of Gallim shall flee; Laisa shall hear; one shall hear in Anathoth.

from the porch to the outer court: and there were palm-trees to the post thereof, and eight steps.

Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will give Uaphres king of Egypt into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of one that seeks his life; as I gave Sedekias king of Juda into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.

For the Lord will not reject for ever.

Drunkenness increaseth the rage of a fool till he offend: it diminisheth strength, and maketh wounds.

Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life; but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.

And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, there shall be thick darkness in their perplexity.

They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth,

neither would they attend to my counsels, but derided my reproofs.

A lion's whelp, stronger than all other beasts, which turns not away, nor fears any beast;

It is not to be wondered at if one should be taken stealing, for he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul:

A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart: but a sensitive heart is a corruption of the bones.

The righteous shall never fail: but the ungodly shall not dwell in the earth.

And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.

And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail.

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Do ye pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do ye go a-whoring after their abominations,

And these are the goings out of the city northward, four thousand and five hundred by measure.

For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:

Now then, if I should go in to they servant, and our father, and the boy should not be with us, (and his life depends on this life)

Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until fifty years old, every one that goes in to perform the services of the tabernacle of witness.

Every tithe of the land, both of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of trees, is the Lord's, holy to the Lord.

or in the case of a man on whomsoever the spirit of jealousy should come, and he should be jealous of his wife, and he should place his wife before the Lord, and the priest shall execute towards her all this law.

And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.

On the fourth day Elisur the son of Sediur, the prince of the children of Ruben.

And Lot went up out of Segor, and dwelt in the mountain, he and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Segor; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a full year, the house which is in the walled city shall be surely confirmed to him that bought it, throughout his generations; and it shall not go out in the release.

And he said to him, I will not go, but I will go to my land and to my kindred.

And Moses departed into the camp, himself and the elders of Israel.

And he said, Will there be anything , Lord, if I shall speak? but if there be found there thirty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the thirty's sake.

And Joseph said to his brethren, I will go up and tell Pharao, and will say to him, My brethren, and my father's house, who were in the land of Chanaan, are come to me.

And every soul which shall do work on that day, that soul shall be destroyed from among its people.

And Amalec dwells in the land toward the south: and the Chettite and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Chananite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan.

ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua the son of Naue.

In that same day it shall be eaten; ye shall not leave of the flesh till the morrow: I am the Lord.

And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do any thing with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people,

But if the Lord shall shew by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.

And he set before them loaves to eat; but he said, I will not eat, until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.

And thou shalt say to them, When ye shall offer the first-fruits from it, then shall it be reckoned to the Levites as produce from the threshing-floor, and as produce from the wine-press.

And ye shall keep mine ordinances, that ye may not do any of the abominable practices, which have taken place before your time: and ye shall not be polluted in them; for I am the Lord your God.

For in this day he shall make an atonement for you, to cleanse you from all your sins before the Lord, and ye shall be purged.

And their seed shall perish from Esebon to Daebon; and their women have yet farther kindled a fire against Moab.

And the ass says to Balaam, Am not I thine ass on which thou hast ridden since thy youth till this day? did I ever do thus to thee, utterly disregarding thee? and he said, No.

then the priest shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the appearance of it be beneath the skin, and in it there be thin yellowish hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scurf, it is a leprosy of the head or a leprosy of the beard.

And Esau said to Jacob, Let me taste of that red pottage, because I am fainting; therefore his name was called Edom.

And the name of the daughter of Aser, Sara.

And Ruben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee; give him into my hand, and I will bring him back to thee.

for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; beside the perpetual whole-burnt-offering: and

the ferret, and the chameleon, and the evet, and the newt, and the mole.

And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves or of the young pigeons, as he can afford it,

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

And their dwelling was from Masse, till one comes to Saphera, a mountain of the east.

And he sanctified Aaron and his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.

And from the half belonging to the children of Israel thou shalt take one in fifty from the men, and from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses, and from all the cattle; and thou shalt give them to the Levites that keep the charges in the tabernacle of the Lord.

But if they will not pass over armed with you to war before the Lord, then shall ye cause to pass over their possessions and their wives and their cattle before you into the land of Chanaan, and they shall inherit with you in the land of Chanaan.

His hands shall bring the burnt-offerings to the Lord; the fat which is on the breast and the lobe of the liver, he shall bring them, so as to set them for a gift before the Lord.

And they departed from Selmona, and encamped in Masuruth.

Whoever kills a man, thou shalt slay the murderer on the testimony of witnesses; and one witness shall not testify against a soul that he should die.

And the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the altar of whole-burnt-offerings; and all its blood he shall pour forth by the foot of the altar.

the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;

And Aaron and all the elders of Israel saw Moses, and the appearance of the skin of his face was made glorious, and they feared to approach him.

And Seon king of Esebon would not that we should pass by him, because the Lord our God hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as on this day.

And he went in to Rachel; and he loved Rachel more than Lea; and he served him seven other years.

And Moses returned to the Lord and said, I pray, O Lord, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made for themselves golden gods.

And all these things shall come upon thee in the last days, and thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice.

Go, say to them, Return ye to your houses;

The priest his successor from among his sons who shall go into the tabernacle of witness to minister in the holies, shall put them on seven days.

And thou shalt put it on the spun blue cloth, and it shall be on the mitre: it shall be in the front of the mitre.

And Lamech lived after his begetting Noe, five hundred and sixty and five years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Jacob took to himself green rods of storax tree and walnut and plane-tree; and Jacob peeled in them white stripes; and as he drew off the green, the white stripe which he had made appeared alternate on the rods.