And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
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On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
Numbers
LawAnd they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers
LawThen come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
Luke
GospelsArtaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
Ezra
HistoryO praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Luke
GospelsThe elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
1 Peter
General EpistlesNow Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraEvery man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonA land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
Deuteronomy
LawI speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
Numbers
LawThe best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Micah
Minor ProphetsFor all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Genesis
Law / MosesYe worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
John
Gospels / JohnThe heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAs the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.