As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
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And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
Numbers
LawAnd he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
Mark
Gospels(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
Mark
GospelsAnd for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryJehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHis children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
Judges
HistoryLet them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTake a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMaachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulTrouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.