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Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Genesis
LawFor in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
Nehemiah
HistoryHear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.
Leviticus
LawMoreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job
WisdomThen the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Judges
History / SamuelIf any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
Mark
GospelsAnd he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAll these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
Deuteronomy
LawBecause strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOf this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
Acts
History / LukeAs a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.
Acts
HistoryYe shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBecause of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYour carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Numbers
Law / MosesI have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanCome, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Proverbs
WisdomFor there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBlessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!