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Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.
