This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
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To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Job
Wisdom / JobFor the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Ruth
History(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
John
GospelsO God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
Exodus
LawAnd the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.
Nehemiah
HistoryShe doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThey prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
2 Samuel
HistoryEven as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job
Wisdom / JobGod shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
Psalms
PoetryBut he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
Numbers
Law / MosesThy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
Job
WisdomAnd David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMoses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
John
Gospels / JohnBehold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Job
WisdomA noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.