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Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
And the famine was sore in the land.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
