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When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
