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And 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.
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,
And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
