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When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not your's, but God's.
My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
