If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
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And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTherefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.
John
GospelsAnd they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
2 Kings
HistoryHe measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job
WisdomAlso, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielConfounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
Luke
Gospels / LukeYe sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
Genesis
LawAnd she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIn the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.
Daniel
Major ProphetsCommand the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Exodus
LawAnd some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.