Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
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So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWithhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
Leviticus
LawAnd Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
Exodus
LawGive to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
Luke
GospelsAnd Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahEvery vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Numbers
LawThus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhile they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
1 Peter
General EpistlesThere the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job
WisdomAnd she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
Nehemiah
HistoryAfter him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
LawMoreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Job
WisdomAnd when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThere is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
Joshua
History / JoshuaO daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.