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And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
