I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Genesis
LawAnd Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
Genesis
LawThat which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhen I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Luke
GospelsAnd the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis
LawThey say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
John
GospelsAnd ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahPlead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
Joshua
HistoryAnd in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin;
Leviticus
Law / MosesFire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
Genesis
LawAnd Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
2 Chronicles
HistoryTo whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus
LawOnly with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Psalms
PoetryHe that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.