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But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.
And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
