A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
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Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
Numbers
LawAnd I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThrough wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahDo not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Matthew
GospelsFor the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.
2 John
General EpistlesAnd the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
Joshua
HistoryBe ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
Joshua
HistoryThe son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
Numbers
LawNow therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesCan any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelWhen they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
Joshua
HistoryFor ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe same was in the beginning with God.
John
Gospels / JohnFor what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark
GospelsAnd the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.