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Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.
There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
