And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
Job
Wisdom / JobIt is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesLet a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Hebrews
General EpistlesHearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John
Gospels / JohnO how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
Luke
GospelsThree times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
Deuteronomy
LawNotwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNeither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWatch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Mark
GospelsThe Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
Acts
HistoryAnd thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
Leviticus
LawAnd the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
Daniel
Major ProphetsNow after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.