Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
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Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
1 Samuel
HistoryMy doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBecause of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Psalms
PoetryThus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThe son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
1 Chronicles
HistorySo there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
Exodus
LawAnd it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesIf she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
Solomon's Song
PoetryBut new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSpeak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSave us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.