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Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.
Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
