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And we mastered all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; sixty cities, all the country round about Argob, belonging to king Og in Basan:

And Debbora, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

And his father-in-law, the father of the damsel, constrained him, and he stayed with him for three days; and they ate and drank, and lodged there.

And the Egyptians buried those that died of them, even all that the Lord smote, every first-born in the land of Egypt; also the Lord executed vengeance on their gods.

but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.

and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgment between a man and his neighbor,

And the woman took the two men and hid them; and she spoke to the messengers, saying, The men came in to me,

Therefore my spirit was grieved in me; my heart was troubled within me.

And they that hate thee have boasted in the midst of thy feast; they have set up their standards for signs,

And the messengers came to Gabaa to Saul, and they speak the words into the ears of the people; and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction.

Ye shall observe my judgments, and shall keep my ordinances, and shall walk in them: I am the Lord your God.

And Esther said, To-day is my great day: if then it seem good to the king, let both him and Aman come to the feast which I will prepare this day.

he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city.

And as for thy birth in the day wherein thou wast born, thou didst not bind thy breasts, and thou wast not washed in water, neither wast thou salted with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddling-bands.

But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.

that ye may not fall into captivity? For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

Not so the ungodly; not so: but rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth.

A voice of many nations on the mountains, even like to that of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a war-like nation,

and said to me, Behold, I will increase thee, and multiply thee, and will make of thee multitudes of nations; and I will give this land to thee, and to thy seed after thee, for an everlasting possession.

and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to sacrifice it for a whole-burnt-offering or peace-offering to the Lord to be acceptable for a sweet-smelling savour: and whosoever shall slay it without, and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness, so as to offer it as a gift to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed to that man, he has shed blood; that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the sinner, from the hand of the transgressor and unjust man.

For before the child shall know how to call his father or his mother, one shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.

Therefore speak to them, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him according to the things in which his mind is entangled,

And Moab said to the elders of Madiam, Now shall this assembly lick up all that are round about us, as a calf would lick up the green herbs of the field:and Balac son of Sepphor was king of Moab at that time.

Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.

Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts.

And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hands, and shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:

Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with me who work iniquity: and I will not. let me not unite with their choice ones.

And the queen's maids and chamberlains went in and told her: and when she had heard what was done, she was disturbed; and she sent to clothe Mardochaeus, and take away his sackcloth; but he consented not.

And thou shalt say to him, Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither let thy soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: for when my fierce anger is over, I will heal again.

Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately.

And Pharao spoke to Joseph, saying, Thy father, and thy brethren, are come to thee.

Thy prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts.

he shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser.

And he shall put on the consecrated linen tunic, and he shall have on his flesh the linen drawers, and shall gird himself with a linen girdle, and shall put on the linen cap, they are holy garments; and he shall bathe all his body in water, and shall put them on.

But thou shalt go instead to my country, where I was born, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son Isaac.

When my spirit was fainting within me, then thou knewest my paths; in the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me.

And the Lord said immediately to Moses and Aaron and Mariam, Come forth all three of you to the tabernacle of witness.

In his sight an evil-worker is set at nought, but he honours them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbour, and disappoints him not.

Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

and it be told thee, and thou shalt have enquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel;

I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God.

Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I and my concubine went to Gabaa of Benjamin to lodge.

And he said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and smite: and let not your eyes spare, and have no mercy.

from Thaeman even to all the land of Chanaan before Gaza, and the Sidonians as far as Aphec, as far as the borders of the Amorites.

And he said to them, Thus and thus did Michaias to me, and he hired me, and I became his priest.

And the water continued to decrease until the tenth month.

And thou shalt carry forth thy baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth at even, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.

Every bed on which he that has the issue shall happen to lie, is unclean; and every seat on which he that has the issue may happen to sit, shall be unclean.

And the lintel shook at the voice they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke.

the inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day has drawn nigh, not with tumult, nor with pangs.

Nevertheless the word of the king prevailed against Joab an the captains of the host: And Joab and the captains of the host went out before the king to number the people of Israel.

And Moses brought their case before the Lord.

And, behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.

It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly pruned of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for any work?

Thus they spoke daily to him, but he hearkened not unto them; so they represented to Aman that Mardochaeus resisted the commands of the king: and Mardochaeus had shewn to them that he was a Jew.

But let the righteous rejoice; let them exult before God: let them be delighted with joy.

And thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire: from thence shall come forth fire; and thou shalt say to the whole house of Israel,

And they shall ask thee how thou doest, and shall give thee two presents of bread, and thou shall receive them of their hand.

And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands?

And thou shalt lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days during which thou shalt lie upon it: and thou shalt bear their iniquities.

For the Lord shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Sion, and shall purge out the blood from the midst of them, with the spirit of judgment, and the spirit of burning.

They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

Let the nations, O God, give thanks to thee; let all the nations give thanks to thee.

And the priest shall give directions, and they shall take for him that is cleansed two clean live birds, and cedar wood, and spun scarlet, and hyssop.

And I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will bring thee up at the end; and Joseph shall put his hands on thine eyes.

And this was done in order to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would obey the commands of the Lord, which he charged their fathers by the hand of Moses.

And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

and the first-fruits of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine oil; and thou shalt give to him the first-fruits of the fleeces of thy sheep:

And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them.

And thou, son of man, hear him that speaks to thee; be not thou provoking, as the provoking house: open thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.

I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, and I shall be saved from my enemies.

I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying-place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.

And he said to me, Son of man, go thy way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, from the light of which the Lord passed on, and as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.

then will I give you the rain in its season, and the land shall produce its fruits, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

And Saul said to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword and pierce me through with it; lest these uncircumcised come and pierce me through, and mock me. But his armour-bearer would not, for he feared greatly: so Saul took his sword and fell upon it.

And the mixed multitude among them lusted exceedingly; and they and the children of Israel sat down and wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

And David and his men lifted up their voice, and wept till there was no longer any power within them to weep.

What shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected it to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns.

then he that offers his gift to the Lord shall bring a meat-offering of fine flour, a tenth part of an ephah mingled with oil, even with the fourth part of a hin.

For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are faithful.

And the fourth was Ornia, the son of Aggith, and the fifth was Saphatia, the son of Abital.

Because the yoke that was laid upon them has been taken away, and the rod that was on their neck: for he has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Madiam.

Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: ye have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

And the house of Michaias was to him the house of God, and he made an ephod and theraphin, and he consecrated one of his sons, and he became to him a priest.

Thou hast commanded us diligently to keep thy precepts.

Let all the kings of the earth, o Lord, give thanks unto thee; for they have heard all the words of thy mouth.

We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:

And it came to pass when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

Turn away thine eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: thy hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad.

The words of transgressors have overpowered us; but do thou pardon our sins.

Now then be not grieved, and let it not seem hard to you that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you for life.

DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it to them.

who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;

The wilderness and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and as far as the extremity of the sea; your costs shall be from the setting of the sun.

But if the spot be clear and white in the skin of his flesh, yet the appearance of it be not deep below the skin, and its hair have not changed itself for white hair, but it is dark, then the priest shall separate him that has the spot seven days;