Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy
LawReturn, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
Judges
History / SamuelFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIn thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhy withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
Psalms
PoetryThen Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Numbers
Law / MosesWe have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonO ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.
John
GospelsThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Matthew
GospelsFor thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAccording to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
Joshua
History / JoshuaDespise not prophesyings.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.