For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
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Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Genesis
LawOr if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Psalms
PoetryHe cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Job
Wisdom / JobI made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Psalms
PoetryNow the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;
Matthew
GospelsShe hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSay thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
Numbers
LawBut if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesHe that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawBlessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.