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Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
