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And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
To them which were in Beth-el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
