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This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.
But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
