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Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
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.
And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,
Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
