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Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
