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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
And he took it, and did eat before them.
Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
