Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
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On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
Numbers
LawAnd I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMake me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Psalms
PoetryNow he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
John
GospelsThat seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Mark
GospelsAnd it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
Leviticus
Law / MosesForasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1 Peter
General EpistlesThen said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Esther
HistoryTo the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers
LawThen after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.
John
GospelsAnd if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Genesis
LawThey have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThat the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulI have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.