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I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:
And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
