And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
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Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
Numbers
Law / MosesPalal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
Nehemiah
HistoryAll this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
Numbers
Law / MosesHe is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMoreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
Nehemiah
HistoryTherefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.
Ruth
HistoryMuch more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWoe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
Numbers
Law / MosesBe not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
LawAnd they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
1 Samuel
HistorySo they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
Job
Wisdom / JobThat the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
Numbers
LawThen Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Genesis
Law / MosesWill a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it shall turn to you for a testimony.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.