Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
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Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mark
GospelsThou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
Ruth
HistoryHe sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Acts
HistoryAnd the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Judges
HistorySo there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Psalms
PoetryYe have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Deuteronomy
LawHe is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWho hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah
Minor ProphetsSo shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
Genesis
LawThen the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,