Burnt offerings VI

God hath taken

away my reproach:

And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country,

saw her,

he took her,

and lay with her,

and defiled her.

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Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold:

and the Lord blessed him.

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blade

The flat-edged cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool. 2.   A sword. A swordsman

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Another parable put

he

forth unto them, saying,

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat,

and went his way.

But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

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    And the Lord said unto Satan,

Whence comest thou?

Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,

and from walking up and down in it.

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So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

He said unto them,

An enemy hath done this.

The servants said unto him,

Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

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And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that,

behold,

every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they - and their father saw the bundles of money,

they were afraid.

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But he said,

Nay;

lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

Let both grow together until the harvest:

and in the time of harvest

I

will say to the rleapers,

Gather ye together first the tares,

and bind them in bundles to burn them:

but gather the wheat into my barn.

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hap

(hap)n. 1. Fortune; chance. 2. A happening; an occurrence.

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And she went,

and came,

and gleaned in the field - after the rleapers:

and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

And,

behold,

Boaz came from Bethlehem,

and said unto the rleapers,

The Lord be with you.

And they answered him,

The Lord bless thee.

Then said Boaz unto

his servant that was set over the rleapers,

Whose damsel is this?

And the servant that was set over the rleapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:

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And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;

and they sewed fig leaves together,

and made them-selves aprons.

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And the servant ran to meet her,

and said,

Let me,

I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

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And she said,

I pray you,

let me glean and gather after –

the rleapers among the sheaves:

so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.

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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

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Then said Boaz unto Ruth,

Hearest thou not, my daughter?

Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:

Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after - them:

have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee?

and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.

Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

and said unto him,

Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?

And Boaz answered

and said unto her,

It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother,

and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.

The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

Then she said,

Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.

And Boaz said unto her,

At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar.

And she sat beside the rleapers:

and he reached her parched corn,

and she did eat,

and was sufficed,

and left.

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And God remembered Rachel,

and God hearkened to her,

and opened her womb.

And she conceived,

and bare a son;

and said,

God hath taken away my reproach:

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And when she was risen up to glean,

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re-proach

1. To express disapproval of, criticism of, or disappointment in (someone). See Synonyms at admonish. 2. To bring shame upon; disgrace.n. 1. Blame; rebuke. 2. One that causes rebuke or blame. 3. Disgrace; shame. --idiom. beyond reproach. So good as to preclude any possibility of criticism.[Middle English reprochen, from Old French reprochier, from Vulgar Latin *repropiare : Latin re-, re- + Latin prope, near. See per1.]

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Boaz commanded

his young men, saying,

Let her glean even among the shleaves, and reproach her not:

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