And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.
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Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
Genesis
LawAnd unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation
ApocalypticTherefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
Exodus
Law / MosesI protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesGird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelThe things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Job
WisdomAnd there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
Psalms
PoetryThen all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOf the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesBut Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
Genesis
Law / MosesO our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Proverbs
WisdomThis is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Genesis
Law / MosesThese are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
Acts
History / LukeAnd if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
Psalms
PoetryThen Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.