For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
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And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhen thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsFor who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psalms
PoetryO give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
Esther
History / MordecaiThe stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
Genesis
LawAnd he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
Judges
History / SamuelThey clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThen said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
Psalms
PoetryThere be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalms
PoetryAnd on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
Leviticus
LawFrom the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.