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Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.
Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
