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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.
Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
