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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A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
Acts
History / LukeThe sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Numbers
LawAnd Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
2 Kings
HistoryThou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThen Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges
History / SamuelNow therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
John
GospelsManasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBy night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThen he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAll in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Genesis
LawAnd Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.
Joshua
History / JoshuaO ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.