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This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
