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Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for their's was the first lot.
Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
