And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
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And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
Genesis
Law / MosesGod hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
Judges
HistoryAnd whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Joshua
History / JoshuaJetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.
Exodus
LawHe smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings
HistoryWickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psalms
PoetryThis is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Job
WisdomMy glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job
WisdomIs there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Job
Wisdom / JobThat led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
Judges
History / SamuelThe LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.