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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.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim.
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
