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And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
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?
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
