And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
Deuteronomy
LawCommand the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahNow therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
Psalms
PoetryHe giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsI form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
Numbers
LawAnd when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
1 Samuel
HistoryTheir children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
Genesis
Law / MosesIn like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesNeither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAbstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulVerily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.