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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
