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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
