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And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
