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Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
