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So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
