And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
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And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThese be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis
LawO LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBut he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
Judges
HistoryAnd a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.
John
GospelsSo shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Numbers
LawAnd this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMicah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesMy soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
Deuteronomy
Law(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
John
GospelsI was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.