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And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
