I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
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And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
Exodus
LawAnd he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
Revelation
ApocalypticTherefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
Exodus
LawFor I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThese are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
John
Gospels / JohnBe surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielJesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
Mark
GospelsAnd thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Judges
HistoryReprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
John
GospelsFor thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
Genesis
LawThe prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHow hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAll these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.