If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
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And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Genesis
LawThen was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Daniel
Major ProphetsOr when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSurely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsBe thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
Leviticus
LawBy the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
Judges
History / SamuelI suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesPelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
John
Gospels / JohnO thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.
2 Samuel
HistoryThey cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Job
WisdomAnd God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
Genesis
LawBlow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Joel
Minor ProphetsNow in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley,