That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
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Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
Genesis
LawFor the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Revelation
ApocalypticBecause they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBy little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exodus
LawHe cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.
1 Samuel
HistoryHe that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Proverbs
WisdomNow therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
Ezra
History / EzraThe children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
Ezra
History / EzraThe rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThat thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesA word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.