And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
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But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
1 Kings
HistoryThus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
Judges
HistoryWhich justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAgain, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
1 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Matthew
GospelsHow he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsIf I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Job
Wisdom / JobThey zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesHaving land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Acts
HistoryThen the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobFor it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesNow the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLikewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
Exodus
Law / MosesAs he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.