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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
