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their sins and the sins of their fathers, saith the Lord, who have burnt incense on the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom.

And the sons of Merari according to their families had by lot twelve cities, out of the tribe of Ruben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon.

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

And the Lord said to the devil, Whence art thou come? And the devil answered the Lord, and said, I am come from compassing the earth, and walking up and down in the world.

May the Lord preserve thee from all evil: the Lord shall keep thy soul.

Now then ye did not send me hither, but God; and he hath made me as a father of Pharao, and lord of all his house, and ruler of all the land of Egypt.

And I did thus according to all that he commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and went out secretly; I was taken up on men's shoulders before them.

And the Philistines feared, and said, These are the Gods that are come to them into the camp.

Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.

Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

But thou shalt deal kindly with the sons of Berzelli the Galaadite, and they shall be among those that eat at thy table; for thus they drew nigh to me when I fled from the face of thy brother Abessalom.

He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed.

But if the bright spot should have changed and spread in the skin, after the priest has seen him for the purpose of purifying him, then shall he appear the second time to the priest,

Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Remember the days of old, consider the years for past ages: ask thy father, and he shall relate to thee, thine elders, and they shall tell thee.

And he shall present it before the Lord, and the priest shall make atonement for her, and shall purge her from the fountain of her blood; this is the law of her who bears a male or a female.

For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare: without a cause they have reproached my soul.

And there is none that calls upon thy name, or that remembers to take hold on thee: for thou hast turned thy face away from us, and hast delivered us up because of our sins.

And behold a talent of lead lifted up: and behold a woman sat in the midst of the measure.

they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk: they cannot speak through their throat.

Then Saul said to his servants, Seek for me a woman who has in her a divining spirit, and I will go to her, and enquire of her: and his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has in her a divining spirit at Aendor.

even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;

So Abimelech the priest gave him the shewbread; for there were no loaves there, but only the presence loaves which had been removed from the presence of the Lord, in order that hot bread should be set on, on the day on which he took them.

And Moses called Joshua, and said to him before all Israel, Be courageous and strong; for thou shalt go in before this people into the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, and thou shalt give it to them for an inheritance.

I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy, and according to the abundance of his righteousness.

The sacrifice of a just man is acceptable. and the memorial thereof shall never be forgotten.

Who art thou, the great mountain before Zorobabel, that thou shouldest prosper? whereas I will bring out the stone of the inheritance, the grace of it the equal of my grace.

A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whosoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.

And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

And the Lord thy God will put these curses upon thine enemies, and upon those that hate thee, who have persecuted thee.

And it came to pass as they were smiting, that I fell upon my face, and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! wilt thou destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out thy wrath upon Jerusalem?

And the angel of the Lord testified to Jesus, saying,

And Saul smote Amalec from Evilat to Sur fronting Egypt.

Therefore thus saith the Lord; Your dead whom ye have smitten in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and thiscity is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

Whereas there was not left any army to Joachaz, except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.

Shew the marvels of thy mercies, thou that savest them that hope in thee.

And ye came as far as this place; and there came forth Seon king of Esebon, and Og king of Basan, to meet us in war.

And Isaac said to Abraam his father, Father. And he said, What is it, son? And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, where is the sheep for a whole-burnt-offering?

And he brought me to the porch of the court.

And Sadoc the priest went down, and Nathan the prophet, and Banaeas son of Jodae, and the Cherethite, and the Phelethite, and they mounted Solomon upon the mule of king David, and led him away to Gion.

And they said to him, Why does our lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word.

But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few.

For there is none like you, when he shall have established, and made Jerusalem a praise on the earth.

And the Lord was very angry with Oza; and God smote him there: and he died there by the ark of the Lord before God.

And the swine, because this animal divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, and it does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.

And Joshua and all the men of war came upon them at the water of Maron suddenly; and they attacked them in the hill country.

What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?

And Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, Did ye not hate me, and cast me out of my father's house, and banish me from you? and wherefore are ye come to me now when ye want me?

And it came to pass after forty years, that Abessalom said to his father, I will go now, and pay my vows, which I vowed to the Lord in Chebron.

They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth

And then went in Noe and his sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.

But ye die as men, and fall as one of the princes.

And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job has.

But I drew his own sword, and beheaded him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel.

A fool's mouth is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets.

Now the end is come to thee, and I will send judgment upon thee: and I will take vengeance on thy ways, and will recompense all thine abominations upon thee.

The Lord deliver thine enemies that withstand thee utterly broken before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before thee.

And ye shall not go forth from the door of the tabernacle of witness, that ye die not; for the Lord's anointing oil is upon you: and they did according to the word of Moses.

And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nabaeoth shall come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on my altar, and my house of prayer shall be glorified.

For thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

And thou shalt there offer a peace-offering; and thou shalt eat and be filled, and rejoice before the Lord thy God.

The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

Have ye not seen a false vision? and spoken vain prophecies?

the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for there the law-giver will grant blessings.

and we cried to the Lord our God, and the Lord heard our voice, and saw our humiliation, and our labour, and our affliction.

And Moses said to Aaron, Draw nigh to the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy whole-burnt-offering, and make atonement for thyself, and for thy house; and offer the gifts of the people, and make atonement for them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Instruction is to them that use it a gracious reward; and whithersoever it may turn, it shall prosper.

Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.

And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother has refused.

And Gedeon said, Therefore when the Lord gives Zebee and Salmana into my hand, then will I tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and the Barkenim.

I said, But do ye fear me, and receive instruction, and ye shall not be cut off from the face of the land for all the vengeance I have brought upon her: prepare thou, rise early: all their produce is spoilt.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because your occasion for sin has been taken from the nations round about you, and ye have not walked in my statutes, nor kept mine ordinances, nay, ye have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus saith the Lord;

And they said, The man closely questioned us about our family also, saying, Does your father yet live, and have ye a brother? and we answered him according to this question: did we know that he would say to us, Bring your brother?

Break thy bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to thy house: if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and thou shalt not disregard the relations of thine own seed.

And if a man should be caught stealing one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shalt thou remove that evil one from yourselves.

For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, that it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.

And the sea cost shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda; they shall pasture upon them in the houses of Ascalon; they shall rest in the evening because of the children of Juda; for the Lord their God has visited them, and he will turn away their captivity.

therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, even the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours:

And king Joas called Jodae the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have ye not repaired the breaches of the house? now then receive no more money from your sales, for ye shall give it to repair the breaches of the house.

both Pharsannes, and Delphon and Phasga,

So thou shalt set thy face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shalt strengthen thine arm, and shalt prophesy against it.

who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill;

His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: it shall be upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth and forever. The seal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

Thou shalt not speak peaceably or profitably to them all thy days for ever.

and put on him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the tunic, and put on him the ephod;

On a lofty and high mountain, there is thy bed, and thither thou carriedst up thy meat-offerings:

And Booz ate and drank, and his heart was glad, and he came to lie down by the side of the heap of corn; and she came secretly, and lifted up the covering of his feet.

Sing praises to our God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises.

He shall not be afraid of any evil report: his heart is ready to trust in the Lord.

But the house of Israel will not be willing to hearken to thee; for they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted.

I will bless the Lord who has instructed me; my reins too have chastened me even till night.

Thou shalt by all means let the mother go, but thou shalt take the young to thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long.

Thou has made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.

And he took the captains of the hundreds, and the Chorri, and the Rhasim, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king out of the house of the Lord; and they went in by the way of the gate of the footmen of the king's house, and seated him there on the throne of the kings.

Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath against the rivers, or thine anger against the sea? for thou wilt mount on thine horses, and thy chariots are salvation.

At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star.

and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.