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And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
