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A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is faithful unto him, as an oracle.

And speak thou to all those who are wise in understanding, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom and perception; and they shall make the holy apparel of Aaron for the sanctuary, in which apparel he shall minister to me as priest.

and all the Jews that were with him in Massepha, and all the Chaldeans that were found there.

And David went into his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and he put them in a place of custody, and maintained them, and went not in to them; and they were kept living as widows, till the day of their death.

And the man went up from year to year from his city, from Armathaim, to worship and sacrifice to the Lord God of Sabaoth at Selom: and there were Heli and his two sons Ophni and Phinees, the priests of the Lord.

And ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods, and ye shall abolish their name out of that place.

because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, by going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not.

And write the name of Aaron on the rod of Levi; for it is one rod for each: they shall give them according to the tribe of the house of their families.

and the Lord has done it; because ye sinned against him, and hearkened not to his voice.

desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.

As when his lamp shone over my head; when by his light I walked through darkness.

Flee to the mountains as a sparrow?

A house is built by wisdom, and is set up by understanding.

O Lord my God, I cried to thee, and thou didst heal me.

Incline thine ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be thou to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me.

And thou shalt make a rim for the altar; and its covering and its cups, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pan, and all its vessels shalt thou make of brass.

And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot after his form, and after his image, and he called his name Seth.

A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.

But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

Ye shall not eat any abominable thing.

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

And he said, Lord, if indeed I have found grace in thy sight, pass not by thy servant.

And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house, and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they did eat.

The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory has thundered: the Lord is upon many waters.

An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, but fools pass by and are punished.

And king Sedekias sent Joachal son of Selemias and Sophonias the priest son of Maasaeas to Jeremias, saying, Pray now for us to the Lord.

I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou Most High.

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

For thus saith the Lord; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the host of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it.

And all the leaders of the king of Babylon went in, and sat in the middle gate, Marganasar, and Samagoth, and Nabusachar, and Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the leaders of the king of Babylon,

So I brought forth Jechonias the son of Jeremin the son of Chabasin, and his brethren, and his sons, and all the family of the Archabin;

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?

and Basemath, daughter of Ismael, sister of Nabaioth.

Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbours, but evils are in their hearts.

To do justly and to speak truth, are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices.

The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him fell the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen bars, one.

And Israel consecrated themselves to Beel-phegor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.

And thou shalt make for them loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, on one side for the coupling, and so shalt thou make on the edge of the outer curtain for the second coupling.

and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt certainly be taken, and shalt be given into his hands; and thine eyes shall see his eyes, and thou shalt enter into Babylon.

Perhaps the house of Juda will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and so I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.

And thou shalt make its dishes and its censers, and its bowls, and its cups, with which thou shalt offer drink-offerings: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

and Sedekias shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that accuses unjustly shall not escape.

And I will bring back all the people to thee, as a bride returns to her husband: only thou seekest the life of one man, and all the people shall have peace.

Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and the people shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.

And it came to pass when the children of Israel sowed, that Madiam and Amalec went up, and the children of the east went up together with them.

When an ungodly man comes into a depth of evils, he despises them; but dishonour and reproach come upon him.

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 lords of the Philistines said, Who are these that pass by? And Anchus said to the captains of the Philistines, Is not this David the servant of Saul king of Israel? He has been with us some time, even this second year, and I have not found any fault in him from the day that he attached himself to me even until this day.

And I, behold! my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou perfected praise, because of thine enemies; that thou mightest put down the enemy and avenger.

And Moses went in and related to the people all the words of God and the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, saying, All the words which the Lord has spoken, we will do and be obedient.

Though an army should set itself in array against me, my heart shall not be afraid: though war should rise up against me, in this am I confident.

Thus shalt thou do to his ass, and thus shalt thou do to his garment, and thus shalt thou do to every thing that thy brother has lost; whatsoever shall have been lost by him, and thou shalt have found, thou shalt not have power to overlook.

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.

For thy mercy is before mine eyes: and I am well pleased with thy truth.

And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go and see if God will appear to me and meet me, and the word which he shall shew me, I will report to thee. And Balac stood by his sacrifice.

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.

As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.

And Booz said to the relative, The matter regards the portion of the field which was our brother Elimelech's which was given to Noemin, now returning out of the land of Moab;

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;

For none of them that wait on thee shall in any wise be ashamed: let them be ashamed that transgress without cause.

Cry to me, and I will answer thee, and I will declare to thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

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

Who shall go up to the mountain of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place?

Make ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock.

Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.

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

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.

... and Jacob hid them under the turpentine tree which is in Secima, and destroyed them to this day.

The eyes of the Lord behold both the evil and the good in every place.

From the ends of the earth have I cried to thee, when my heart was in trouble: thou liftedst me up on a rock thou didst guide me:

So Sara the wife of Abram having taken Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him.

outside the veil in the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall burn it from evening until morning before the Lord continually, a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

And thou shalt not spare a poor man in judgment.

Out of the mouth of fools comes a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise preserve them.

It is a glory to a man to turn aside from railing; but every fool is entangled with such matters.

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,

Thus shall Aaron enter into the holy place; with a calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and having a ram for a whole-burnt-offering.

And David departed thence to Massephath of Moab, and said to the king of Moab, Let, I pray thee, my father and my mother be with thee, until I know what God will do to me.

And the victory was turned that day into mourning to all the people, for the people heard say that day, The king grieves after his son.

Pity me, O Lord; for I am weak: heal me, O Lord; for my bones are vexed.

So the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Sedekias,

Ye have compassed this mount long enough; turn therefore toward the north.

A man shall not prosper by wickedness; but the roots of the righteous shall not be taken up.

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

And his sons did not walk in his way; and they turned aside after gain, and took gifts, and perverted judgments.

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

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

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.

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.

O my God, I will cry to thee by day, but thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye be slow of heart? wherefore do ye love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.

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.

He that keeps his own mouth keeps his own life: but he that is hasty with his lips shall bring terror upon himself.

When a just man dies he leaves regret: but the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy.

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.