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Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

And Abraam called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarrha bore to him, Isaac.

For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

And bind them on thy fingers, and write them on the table of thine heart.

and thou shalt send them to the king of Idumea, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda.

And the remainder of the sacrifice shall be for Aaron and his sons, a most holy portion from the sacrifices of the Lord.

So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink:

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, he made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

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

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.

And behold, one was cutting down a beam, and the axe head fell into the water: and he cried out, Alas! master: and it was hidden.

for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases thy palate:

GIMEL. He has broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and has kindled a flame in Jacob as a fire, and it has devoured all things round about.

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; but bind them about thy neck:

And the Berothites ran away to Gethaim, and were sojourners there until this day.

at the sound of his rushing, at the sound of his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,

The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and there is no end to his greatness.

If his gift be a whole-burnt-offering, he shall bring an unblemished male of the herd to the door of the tabernacle of witness, he shall bring it as acceptable before the Lord.

For it thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding;

My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.

and his miracles, and his wonders, which he wrought in the midst of Egypt on Pharao king of Egypt, and all his land;

And Jephthae fled from the face of his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and vain men gathered to Jephthae, and went out with him.

Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?

They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.

We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed: let us forsake her, and depart every one to his own country: for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all things which the Lord commanded him for them:

then God laid it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he pondered deeply.

Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end of the matter?

And God came to Abimelech by night in sleep, and said, Behold, thou diest for the woman, whom thou hast taken, whereas she has lived with a husband.

Take up arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;

And he dreamed again. And, behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, choice and good.

to receive also hard saying, and to understand true justice, and how to direct judgment;

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.

Howl, O Esebon, for Gai has perished; cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with sack-clothes, and lament; for Melchol shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.

if the anointed priest sin so as to cause the people to sin, then shall he bring for his sin, which he has sinned, an unblemished calf of the herd to the Lord for his sin.

For what matters it to the Lord, if thou wert blameless in thy works? or is it profitable that thou shouldest perfect thy way?

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark place, as those that have been long dead.

Know that the Lord he is God; he made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

And I will gather in the remnant of my people in every land, whither I have driven them out, and will set them in their pasture; and they shall increase and be multiplied.

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

Every spot on which ye shall tread I will give it to you, as I said to Moses.

And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do with all your heart return to the Lord, take away the strange gods from the midst of you, and the groves, and prepare your hearts to serve the Lord, and serve him only; and he shall deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.

thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

Let them give thanks to thy great name; for it is terrible and holy.

And I will smite all the dwellers in this city, both men and cattle, with grievous pestilence: and they shall die.

And he put them in ward, into the prison, into the place whereinto Joseph had been led.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests whom they consecrated to the priesthood.

He has remembered his mercy to Jacob, and his truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

and thou shalt say to them, Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it shall tingle.

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

And they will go across to the sea to the borders of Aptalim, as far as the borders of Baethoron the lower, and the going forth of them shall be to the sea.

For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother:

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.

I will pour out before him my supplication: I will declare before him mine affliction.

The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.

And Joseph found grace in the presence of his lord, and was well-pleasing to him; and he set him over his house, and all that he had he gave into the hand of Joseph.

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt report to this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced against us all these evils? what is our unrighteousness? and what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?

Publish his glory among the Gentiles, his wonderful works among all people.

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.

And his second son was Daluia, the son of Abigaia the Carmelitess; and the third, Abessalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tholmi the king of Gessir.

Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.

But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord shall be.

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

For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: for the Lord will not cast off his people.

And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

And she again bore a son; and called his name, Selom: and she was in Chasbi when she bore them.

I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast?

And all the people took off the golden ear-rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

My soul shall boast herself in the Lord: let the meek hear, and rejoice.

So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I had buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.

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 said, If ye send away the ark of the covenant of the Lord God of Israel, do not on any account send it away empty, but by all means render to it an offering for the plague; and then shall ye be healed, and an atonement shall be made for you: should not his hand be thus stayed from off you?

and the men that were with him, every one and his family; and they dwelt in the cities of Chebron.

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.

And they will become wives in one of the tribes of the children of Israel; so their inheritance shall be taken away from the possession of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women shall marry, and shall be taken away from the portion of our inheritance.

and to frame works, to labour in gold, and silver, and brass, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet,

Who has not spoken craftily with is tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbour, nor taken up a reproach against them that dwelt nearest to him.

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.

Fire shall go before him, and burn up his enemies round about.

The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices,

O Lord, teach me, and I shall know: then I saw their practices.

But thou, Lord, knowest me; thou hast proved my heart before thee; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways.

For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunters, from every troublesome matter.

And she spoke yet again to the king, and fell at his feet, and besought him to do away the mischief of Aman, and all that he had done against the Jews.

For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.

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

And David said to him, Whence comest thou? and he said to him, I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.

For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not borne a yoke.

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

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.

For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy truth shall be established in the heavens.

Turn not man back to his low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men?