This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
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They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhile I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
Hebrews
General EpistlesWho had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Hebrews
General EpistlesO God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
Psalms
PoetryIn thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
Mark
GospelsAnd also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Matthew
GospelsIs there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.
Ezra
HistoryWhen they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Leviticus
LawAnd the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.