And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
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Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Amos
Minor ProphetsFor whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
1 Kings
HistoryAnd ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIt shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLet thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
Ruth
HistoryThen Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
Numbers
Law / MosesThere were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Matthew
GospelsAnd set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
Numbers
Law / MosesThough wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Job
WisdomAnd other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThen I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesA man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Ezra
HistoryFor 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.