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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
