These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
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And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
Esther
HistoryBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
Solomon's Song
PoetryWhat? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
LawAnd the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIt was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBlow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalms
PoetryWhoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Numbers
LawThe great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Leviticus
LawCry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
Numbers
LawAnd he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Luke
GospelsAnd the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
Joshua
HistoryBut not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
2 Kings
HistoryBut when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.