For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
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So Job died, being old and full of days.
Job
WisdomAnd Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
Genesis
LawThen arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
Ezra
HistoryAnd he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Matthew
GospelsIf I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
John
GospelsAnd if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesYet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
Genesis
Law / MosesOn the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Esther
History / MordecaiThen said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.
Matthew
GospelsBut thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThey turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job
WisdomHave ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosHe shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
1 Samuel
HistoryHe looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Job
Wisdom / JobYe shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAt the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.