While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
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And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
Leviticus
LawUpon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis
LawBut the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
Mark
GospelsAnd every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
Exodus
Law / MosesIn those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNo lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
Numbers
Law / MosesFrom the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Joshua
HistoryAnd the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahArise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahDo ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms
PoetryThe sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
1 Chronicles
HistorySo David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahGo up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
Ruth
HistoryBut when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges
HistoryAnd the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.