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And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
