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On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
