Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawThen Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
1 Kings
HistoryCanst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job
WisdomWe have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Acts
HistoryA fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?
Acts
HistoryAnd there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
Ezra
History / EzraTherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesGather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
Genesis
LawAnd he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Genesis
LawIf any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.