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Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
