As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
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And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Genesis
LawBut when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIn the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
Exodus
LawLet no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
James
General EpistlesAnd I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBecause they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
Genesis
LawAnd she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThis shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
Exodus
LawWhen the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsEliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
Hebrews
General EpistlesDoth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job
Wisdom / JobIn the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiBut bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.