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Deuteronomy
16
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1 ¶Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD
thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee
forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the
passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the
place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there. 3 Thou
shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened
bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth
out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the
day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days
of thy life. 4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee
in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the
flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all
night until the morning. 5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover
within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: 6 But
at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name
in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going
down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy
God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto
thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the
seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou
shalt do no work therein. 9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee:
begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest
to put the sickle to the corn. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast
of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering
of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according
as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: 11 And thou shalt rejoice
before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and
thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within
thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow,
that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen
to place his name there. 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast
a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after
that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: 14 And thou shalt
rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy
manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and
the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven
days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the
place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall
bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine
hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. 16 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: 17 Every man shall give as he
is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he
hath given thee.
18 ¶Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall
judge the people with just judgment. 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment;
thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift
doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest
live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 21
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar
of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. 22 Neither shalt
thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.
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Ecclesiastes
8
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1 ¶Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of
a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness
of his face shall be changed. 2 I counsel thee to keep the king's
commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God. 3 Be not hasty
to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth
whatsoever pleaseth him. 4 Where the word of a king is, there is
power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? 5 Whoso keepeth
the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart
discerneth both time and judgment.
6 ¶Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore
the misery of man is great upon him. 7 For he knoweth not that which
shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 8 There is no man
that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath
he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that
war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9 ¶All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that
is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over
another to his own hurt. 10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who
had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten
in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. 11 Because
sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore
the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. 12
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged,
yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God,
which fear before him: 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked,
neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because
he feareth not before God.
14 ¶There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be
just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked;
again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the
work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity. 15 Then
I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the
sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall
abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth
him under the sun. 16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom,
and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there
is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) 17 Then
I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work
that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek
it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man
think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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Acts
7
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1 ¶Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said,
Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto
our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt
in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and
from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran:
and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this
land, wherein ye now dwell. 5 And he gave him none inheritance in
it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that
he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after
him, when as yet he had no child. 6 And God spake on this wise,
That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should
bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge,
said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in
this place. 8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and
so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and
Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. 9 And
the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God
was with him, 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and
gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt;
and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 11 Now there
came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great
affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. 12 But when Jacob
heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren;
and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh. 14 Then sent Joseph,
and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore
and fifteen souls. 15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he,
and our fathers, 16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid
in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons
of Emmor the father of Sychem.
17 ¶But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn
to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 Till another
king arose, which knew not Joseph. 19 The same dealt subtilly with
our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out
their young children, to the end they might not live. 20 In which
time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in
his father's house three months: 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's
daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. 22 And
Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty
in words and in deeds. 23 And when he was full forty years old,
it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged
him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: 25 For he supposed
his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would
deliver them: but they understood not. 26 And the next day he shewed
himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one
again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying,
Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Wilt thou kill me,
as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? 29 Then fled Moses at this
saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat
two sons.
30 ¶And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in
the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of
fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight:
and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto
him, 32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled,
and durst not behold. 33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy
shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is
in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver
them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. 35 This Moses whom
they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same
did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel
which appeared to him in the bush. 36 He brought them out, after
that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in
the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. 37 This is that
Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the
Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me;
him shall ye hear. 38 This is he, that was in the church in the
wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina,
and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto
us: 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them,
and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, 40 Saying unto
Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which
brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of
him. 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice
unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 ¶Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of
forty years in the wilderness? 43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle
of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made
to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. 44 Our
fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had
appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according
to the fashion that he had seen. 45 Which also our fathers that
came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles,
whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days
of David; 46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a
tabernacle for the God of Jacob. 47 But Solomon built him an house.
48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
as saith the prophet, 49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool:
what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place
of my rest? 50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
51 ¶Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always
resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of
the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain
them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom
ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received
the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54 ¶When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and
they gnashed on him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the
Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory
of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said,
Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on
the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice,
and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 58 And
cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid
down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 59
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud
voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said
this, he fell asleep.
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