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Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Now 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.
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
