These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
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And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Exodus
Law / MosesTo whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawBut I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
Luke
GospelsShadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWe have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Psalms
PoetryThomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
John
Gospels / JohnIf I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Judges
History / SamuelSee that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulCome on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Exodus
LawAnd no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Luke
GospelsI am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy
LawNow then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
1 Kings
HistoryBut Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
Joel
Minor ProphetsThus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.