Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
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And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus
LawBabylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
Job
WisdomAnd he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWhat man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
Genesis
Law / MosesLest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
Numbers
LawThe hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Proverbs
WisdomOn that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
John
GospelsLest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.