And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
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And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
Judges
History / SamuelHorror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Psalms
PoetryButter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.
Ezra
HistoryAnd also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
Genesis
LawAnd did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsFor all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWe have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Genesis
LawThe elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
Leviticus
LawAnd they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
Judges
HistoryAnd after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
Genesis
LawBy terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Psalms
PoetryRemove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.