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Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;
