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Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
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Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
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Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
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As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
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Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Exodus 1
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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
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Exodus 2
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And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
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And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
10 I
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And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
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And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
12 I
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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
10 I
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And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
12 I
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Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
10 I
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And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.
10 I
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And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it.
10 I
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And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
10 I
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And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
10 I
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And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
10 I
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And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
10 I
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And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
10 I
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Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
12 I
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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
10 I
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And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
10 I
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And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
10 I
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And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
10 I
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And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
10 I
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And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
10 I
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And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
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2 Chronicles 31
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Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
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And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the Lord.
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He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the Lord.
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Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord.
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And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
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And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.
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In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
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And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord, and his people Israel.
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Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
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And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the Lord hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
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Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them,
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And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
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And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
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And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the Lord, and the most holy things.
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And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
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Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the Lord, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
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Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
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And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
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Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
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And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.
4 I
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And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
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Acts 27
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And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
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And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
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And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
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But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
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And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
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Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,
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And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.
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Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
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And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
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And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.
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But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
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And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
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And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
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Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
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And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
2 I
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And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
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And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
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But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
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And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship.
2 I
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For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
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Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
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Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
2 I
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Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
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But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
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And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
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Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
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And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
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Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
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Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
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And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
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Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
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And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
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Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
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And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
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And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
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And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
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And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus’ band.
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And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
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And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
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And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
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And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
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And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.
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And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
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And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
Acts 28
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And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
2 I
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And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
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And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
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And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
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And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
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Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
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In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.
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And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
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So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:
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Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
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And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
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And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
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And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
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Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
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And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.