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Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
