But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
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For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
Psalms
PoetryLest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Proverbs
WisdomBe not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIf a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
Matthew
GospelsWhose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulSend one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
Genesis
LawBehold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBe pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
Leviticus
LawIf I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job
Wisdom / JobBut draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Job
Wisdom / JobHave ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsO LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
Psalms
PoetryGo, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhen he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.