And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
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And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
Genesis
LawThe soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
Joshua
HistoryAnd when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
Acts
HistorySo Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
Acts
History / LukeAnd Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
Numbers
Law / MosesNow therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMy beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Solomon's Song
PoetryBut when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryIn the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNow as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.
Judges
HistoryAnd she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
Genesis
LawOf the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
Joshua
History / JoshuaBehold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?