It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
John
GospelsNeither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
Acts
History / LukeSurely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAlthough affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThen Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsFor Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsHis servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Genesis
LawThen the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job
WisdomFrom the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBefore thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.