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Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
