When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
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And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Genesis
Law / MosesHast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Psalms
PoetryThe son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
Mark
Gospels / MarkGather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
Matthew
GospelsBut if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThese things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnHe shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Psalms
PoetryMy desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
Mark
GospelsThen Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis
Law / MosesTo the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.