The Nazarene IX

and the two fishes,

I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: - from day - even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes - fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

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and looking up to heaven,

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And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of  - the most high God,

possessor of heaven and earth:

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And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he - felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

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When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge,

saying,

Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

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And Jacob asked him,

and said,

Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.

And he said,

Wherefore is it that thou dost ask - after my name?

And he blessed him there.

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And he blessed Joseph,

and said,

God, before - whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me - all my life long unto this day,

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And Joseph said unto his father, - Not so, - my father:

 for this is the firstborn;

put thy right hand upon - his head.

And his father refused, and said, I know it,

my son,

I know it: he also shall become a people,

and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless,

saying,

God make thee as Ephraim and as Man-as-seth: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

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All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing - he blessed them.

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he blessed,

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So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it - in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

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and brake

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Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

And he shall be for a sanctuary; - - but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

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and gave the loaves to his disciples,

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