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Glory and riches shall be in his house; and his righteousness endures for evermore.

And the king said, What wilt thou, Esther? and what is thy request? ask even to the half of my kingdom, and it shall be thine.

And the charmers of the Egyptians also did likewise with their sorceries, and brought up the frogs on the land of Egypt.

And his place has been in peace, and his dwelling-place in Sion.

Beware ye each of his neighbour, and trust ye not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

the valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be his valuation shall be fifty didrachms of silver by the standard of the sanctuary.

Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.

And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered the Chananite into his power; and Israel devoted him and his cities, and they called the name of that place Anathema.

And Moses said to Aaron, This is the thing which the Lord spoke, saying, I will be sanctified among them that draw night to me, and I will be glorified in the whole congregation; and Aaron was pricked in his heart.

His work is worthy of thanksgiving and honour: and his righteousness endures for ever and ever.

And he shall offer all the fat from it; and the loins, and all the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

Say to them, Every man throughout your generations, whoever of all your seed shall approach to the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall consecrate to the Lord, while his uncleanness is upon him, that soul shall be cut off from me: I am the Lord your God.

But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

And they brought their gift before the Lord, six covered waggons, and twelve oxen; a waggon from two princes, and a calf from each: and they brought them before the tabernacle.

And thou shalt go to the king, and speak to him according to this word. And Joab put the words in her mouth.

And the men of Jabis say to him, Allow us seven days, and we will send messengers into all the coasts of Israel: if there should be no one to deliver us, we will come out to you.

Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.

When I shall take a set time, I will judge righteously.

But whereas ye have trusted in lying words, whereby ye shall not be profited;

And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, There is a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of my people is not to purity, nor to holiness.

And may my God bless thee, and increase thee, and multiply thee, and thou shalt become gatherings of nations.

And I will harden the heart of Pharao, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

And the name of that place was called Burning; for a fire was kindled among them from the Lord.

O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

The Lord did not make this covenant with your fathers, but with you: ye are all here alive this day.

Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to thy people:

For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying and lamentation and great mourning on the part of the Jews: they spread for themselves sackcloth and ashes.

The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil.

For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways.

And Amnon had a friend, and his name was Jonadab, the son of Samaa the brother of David: and Jonadab was a very cunning man.

Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

To him who along has wrought great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever.

Behold, I have appointed thee this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.

Whatsoever man shall vow a vow to the Lord, or swear an oath, or bind himself with an obligation upon his soul, he shall not break his word; all that shall come out of his mouth he shall do.

And they in the king's palace said to Mardochaeus, Mardochaeus, why dost thou transgress the commands of the king?

With thee is dominion in the day of thy power, in the splendours of thy saints: I have begotten thee from the womb before the morning.

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,

Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge.

And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling-block to thyself: thou hadst a whore's face, thou didst become shameless toward all.

This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.

And let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair and chaste young damsels and bring them to the city Susa, into the women's apartment, and let them be consigned to the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women; and let things for purification and other attendance be given to them.

and her two sons: the name of the one was Gersam, his father saying, I was a sojourner in a strange land;

he shall purely abstain from wine and strong drink; and he shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink; and whatever is made of the grape he shall not drink; neither shall he eat fresh grapes or raisins,

And I appeared to Abraam and Isaac and Jacob, being their God, but I did not manifest to them my name Lord.

I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me.

But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as one that offers swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.

from the wilderness before Egypt, as far as the borders of Accaron on the left of the Chananites the land is reckoned to the five principalities of the Phylistines, to the inhabitant of Gaza, and of Azotus, and of Ascalon, and of Geth, and of Accaron, and to the Evite;

And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

And thou shalt depart thence, and shalt go beyond that as far as the oak of Thabor, and thou shalt find there three men going up to God to Baethel, one bearing three kids, and another bearing three vessels of bread, and another bearing a bottle of wine.

And Abessalom said to him, See, thy affairs are right and clear, yet thou hast no one appointed of the king to hear thee.

And it seemed evil in the eyes of Saul concerning this matter, and he said, To David they have given ten thousands, and to me they have given thousands. And what more can he have but the kingdom?

And after him arose Jair of Galaad, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.

But the poor man had only one little ewe lamb, which he had purchased, and preserved, and reared; an it grew up with himself and his children in common; it ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.

Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early.

And they proceed before the ascent of Acrabin, and go out round Sena, and go up from the south to Cades Barne; and go out to Asoron, and proceed up to Sarada, and go out by the way that is west of Cades.

whenever thou shalt work gloriously; trembling from thee shall take hold upon the mountains.

And thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

The Lord thy God who goes before thee, he shall destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt inherit them: and it shall be Joshua that goes before thy face, as the Lord has spoken.

Now then take the weapons, both thy quiver and thy bow, and go into the plain, and get me venison,

I am full of trodden grape, and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

And I allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I kept it in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.

And they say to him, The God of the Hebrews has called us to him: we will go therefore a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest at any time death or slaughter happen to us.

That men may know thy way on the earth, thy salvation among all nations.

in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to his friends, and the other nations, and to the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the satraps.

And kings shall walk in thy light, and nations in thy brightness.

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.

Thou shalt not eat leaven with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because ye came forth out of Egypt in haste; that ye may remember the day of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

If ye will walk in my ordinances, and keep my commandments, and do them,

And the man Moses was very meek beyond all the men that were upon the earth.

saying, Why have we fasted, and thou regardest not? why have we afflicted our souls, and thou didst not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts ye find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power ye wound.

Whether male or female, send them forth out of the camp; and they shall not defile their camps in which I dwell among them.

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times.

And the king stood at a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk before the Lord, to keep his commandments and testimonies, and his ordinances, with all his heart and with all his soul, so as to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

But draw ye near hither, ye lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.

And the sons of Gamer, Aschanaz, and Riphath, and Thorgama.

and gathered them out of the countries, from the east, and west, and north, and south.

And the people reviled Moses, saying, Would we had died in the destruction of our brethren before the Lord!

And David sent and enquired about the woman: and one said, Is not this Bersabee the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Urias the Chettite?

And the asses of Kis the father of Saul were lost; and Kis said to Saul his son, Take with thee one of the young men, and arise ye, and go seek the asses.

Say unto God, How awful are thy works! through the greatness of thy power thine enemies shall lie to thee.

Every man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers abiding among you, who shall kill a calf, or a sheep, or a goat in the camp, or who shall kill it out of the camp,

And he said, Cast it on the ground: and he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from it.

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 Araba as far as the sea of Chenereth eastward, and as far as the sea of Araba; the salt sea eastward by the way to Asimoth, from Thaeman under Asedoth Phasga.

And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Annon their lord, Is it to honour thy father before thee that David has sent comforters to thee? Has not David rather sent his servants to thee that they should search the city, and spy it out and examine it?

From the day when I brought up my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house that my name should be there; neither did I choose a man to be a leader over my people Israel.

Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity;

But the olives said to them, Shall I leave my fatness, with which men shall glorify God, and go to be promoted over the trees?

Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice.

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.

Their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram:

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 Abimelech called Isaac, and said to him, Is she then thy wife? why hast thou said, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, , for I said, Lest at any time I die on her account.

Thus have I appeared before thee in the sanctuary, that I might see thy power and thy glory.

then the Lord shall heal thine iniquities, and shall pity thee, and shall again gather thee out from all the nations, among which the Lord has scattered thee.

Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.