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.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThey had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesOh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDo ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThat the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Luke
Gospels / LukeBehold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
Ezra
HistoryAnd the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
Exodus
Law / MosesAll the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: