Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
Luke
GospelsThe hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
Matthew
GospelsNeither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesLet thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis
LawAnd the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Exodus
LawAnd they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Genesis
LawAnd the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
2 Kings
HistoryShe said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
Genesis
Law / MosesI am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
Genesis
LawThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsO Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielTherefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesArt thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.