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Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
