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Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth-el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
