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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,
And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
