To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
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And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Genesis
LawAnd if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
2 Samuel
HistoryI am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAt thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Ezra
HistoryI will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Psalms
PoetryIn the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
Ruth
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
Exodus
LawAnd the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
Genesis
LawAnd Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.
Acts
History / LukeThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
Ruth
History / SamuelBut God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
Luke
GospelsLet not then your good be evil spoken of:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.