And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
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For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSouthward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Joshua
HistorySamaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBehold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonWho is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John
General Epistles / JohnThe men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
Joshua
HistoryYe stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Acts
HistoryBut as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
2 Kings
HistoryThen shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMy lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
Genesis
LawBut made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOpen thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThese things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
John
GospelsAm I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHis mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms
PoetryFor except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
Genesis
Law / MosesBecause the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBecause of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.