Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

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Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them;

and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

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But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not ye therefore like unto them:

for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

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And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off:

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And Noah began to be an husbandman,

and  he planted a vineyard:

And he drank of the wine,

and was drunken;

and  he was uncovered within his tent.

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And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord;

and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

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And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth:

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord,

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And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city.

But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot,

saying,

Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters;

the Lord being merciful unto him:

and  they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

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And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

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And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for- - - him.

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And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation,

and I will bless thee,

and make thy name great;

and thou shalt be a blessing:

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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

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Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight,

and  thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life;

and  I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me,

and I die:

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one:

Oh, let me escape thither,

(is it not a little one?)

and my soul shall live.

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And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?

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And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also,

that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither.

Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

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And God called the dry land Earth;

and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:

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And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth;


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And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

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For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

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And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

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And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as RAheme the mighty hunter before the Lord.

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What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

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And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld,

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Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

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and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain,

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I will make him an help meet for- - - him.

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that God remembered Abraham,

and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow,

when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

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And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him;

for he feared to dwell in Zoar:

and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

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And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

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Apil-Sin was a King in the First Dynasty of Babylon. He reigned ca. 1767 BC - 1749 BC.

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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?

and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.

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thy desire shall be to thy husband,

and he shall rule over thee.

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And unto thee shall be his desire,

and thou shalt rule over him.

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And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

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(Not Abraham)

And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him:

and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, . .

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And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.

And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

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And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night?

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And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

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And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

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And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him:

and the Lord shut him in.

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For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them,  they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

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bring them out unto us,

that we may know them.

And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

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Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab;

be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler:

for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

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Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man;

let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes:

only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

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And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son:

but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee,

thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

And Abraham said,

I will swear.

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And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

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And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:

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And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge:

now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.

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And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

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and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

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And they pressed sore upon the man,

even Lot,

and came near to break the door.

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So he drove out the man;

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But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them,

and shut to the door.

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And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

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And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language;

and this they begin to do:

and now nothing will be restrained from them,

which they have imagined to do.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth:

and they left off to build the city.

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And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great:

so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

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These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

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And he drank of the wine,

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And they made their father drink wine that night:

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They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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and was drunken;

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and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father;

and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger,

Behold, I lay yesternight with my father:

let us make him drink wine this night also;

and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

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and he was uncovered within his tent.

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And they made their father drink wine that night also:

and the younger arose, and lay with him;

and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab:

the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

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Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land.

And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons

Mahlon  and Chilion,

Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah.

And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

And Elimelech Naomi's husband died;

and she was left,

and her two sons.

And 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.

And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them;

and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab:

for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.

Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was,

and her two daughters in law with her;

and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.

And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house:

the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.

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For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord;

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Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

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And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.

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Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

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And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters:

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why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Turn again, my daughters, go your way;

for I am too old to have an husband.

If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also tonight, and should also bear sons;

Would ye tarry for them till they were grown?

would ye stay for them from having husbands?

nay, my daughters;

for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.

And they lifted up their voice, and wept again:

and Orpah kissed her mother in law;

but Ruth clave unto her.

And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods:

return thou after thy sister in law.

And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee:

for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried:

the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.

When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

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And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.

And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

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And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife,

and marry her,

and raise up seed to thy brother.

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

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And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you.

And they answered him, The Lord bless thee.

Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? . . .

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And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:

And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her,

and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

And she took it up, and went into the city:

and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned:

and she brought forth,

and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.

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And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.

And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. . . .

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And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest:

for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.

And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman:

howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. . . .

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Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by;

unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here.

And he turned aside,

and sat down. . . .

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Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife,

to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance,

that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place:

ye are witnesses this day.

And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses.

The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: 


and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman.

So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife:

and when he went in unto her,

the Lord gave her conception,

and she bare a son.

(for she died)

And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.

And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying,

There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,

And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

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After this manner therefore pray ye: 


Our Father which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

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Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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Give us this day our daily bread.

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Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:   Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts

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And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

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Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out:

so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

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And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

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And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them,

Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. We are all one man's sons; we are true men,

thy servants are no spies.

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For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

A men.

Samuel