But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
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And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIf thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Job
Wisdom / JobThey that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.
Judges
HistoryFor he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Numbers
LawAnd Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
2 Samuel
HistoryBoth for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThough it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
Job
Wisdom / JobGo ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Job
Wisdom / JobIbhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAs God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Job
WisdomAnd for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
Exodus
Law / MosesNot to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Acts
HistoryBut my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!