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re-proach

(ri-proch)v. tr. re-proached, re-proach-ing, re-proach-es. 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.]--re-proach'a-ble adj. --re-proach'a-ble-ness n. --re-proach'a-bly adv. --re-proach'er n.

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And God said,

Let there be light:

and there was light.

And God saw the light,

that it was good:

and God divided the light from the darkness.

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And Judah saw - there - a daughter of a certain Canaanite,

whose name was Shuah;

and he took her,

and went in unto her.

And - she conceived,-

and bare a son;

and he called his name Er.

And - she conceived - again,-

and bare a son;

and she called his name Onan.

And she yet - again - conceived,

and bare a son;

and called his name Shelah:

and he was at Chezib,

when she bare him.

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And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn,

whose name was Tamar.

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Lord Judah

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And Er,

Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the - Lord;

and the - Lord slew him.

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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,

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And Leah said,

God hath endued me with a good dowry;

now will my husband dwell with me,

because I have born him six sons:

and she called his name Zebulun.

And afterwards she bare a daughter,

and called her name Dinah.. . . **

And Jacob went out - from Beersheba,

and went toward Haran.

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. . .  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 de-filed her. . .

. . . And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it:

and the men were grieved,

and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter;

which thing ought not to be done. . . And Hamor communed with them,

saying,

The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter:

I pray you give her him to wife.

And make ye marriages with us,

and give your daughters unto us,

and take our daughters unto you.

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell - and trade ye therein,

and get you possessions therein.

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

Ask me never so much dowry and gift,

and I will give according as ye shall say unto me:

but give me the damsel to wife.

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem - and Hamor - his father deceitfully,

and said,

because - he had de - filed Dinah their sister:

And they said unto them,

We cannot do this thing,

to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised;

for that - were - a reproach unto us:

But in this will we consent unto you:

If ye will be as we be,

that every male of you be circumcised;

Then will we give our daughters unto you,

and we will take your daughters to us,

and we will dwell with you,

and we will become one people.

But if ye will not hearken unto us,

to be circumcised;

then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem - Hamor's son.

And the young man deferred not to do the thing,

because he had delight in Jacob's daughter:

and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city,

and communed with the men of their city,

saying,

These men are peaceable with us;

therefore let them dwell in the land,

and trade therein;

for the land,

behold,

it is large enough for them;

let us take their daughters to us for wives,

and let us give them our daughters.

Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people,

if every male among us be circumcised,

as they are circumcised.

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours?

only let us consent unto them,

and they will dwell with us.

And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city;

and every male was circumcised,

all that went out of the gate of his city.

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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.

And the earth brought forth grass,

and herb yielding seed after his kind,

and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,

after his kind:

and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

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For,

behold,

the Lord ISethamuelyeaon

cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their  inequity:

the earth also shall disclose her blood,

and shall no more cover her slain.

In that day the Lord with his sore - and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent,

even leviathan that crooked serpent;

and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

I the Lord ISamuelyeaon do keep it;

I will water it every moment:

lest any hurt it,

I will keep it night and day.

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And it came to pass on the third day,

when they were sore,

that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi,

Dinah's brethren,

took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly,

and slew all the males.

And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword,

and took Dinah out of Shechem's house,

and went out.

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain,

and spoiled the city,

because they had de-filed their sister.

They took their sheep,

and their oxen,

and their asses,

and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

And all their wealth,

and all their little ones,

and their wives took they captive,

and spoiled even all that was in the house.

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. . . that he spilled it on the ground,

lest - that he - should give seed to his brother.

. . . And the thing which he did displeased the Lord:

where-fore he slew him also.

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Tamar

Then said Judah to

Tamar his daughter in law,

Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown:

for he said,

Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did.

And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

And in process of time - the daughter of Shuha - Judah's wife died;

and Judah was comforted,

and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath,

he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

And it was told Tamar,

saying,

Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

And she put her widow's garments off from her, . . .

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Then I said,

I am - cast out of thy sight;

yet - I will look again toward thy holy temple.

The waters compassed me about,

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 . .  and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;

and man became a living soul.

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even to the soul:

the depth closed me round about,

the weeds were wrapped about my head.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;

the earth with her bars was about me for ever:

yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption,

O Lord my God.

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 . . . and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself,

and sat in an open place,

which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown,

and she was not given unto him to wife.

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And Jacob said to

Simeon and Levi,

Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land,

among the Canaanites and the Perizzites:

and I being few in number,

they shall gather themselves together against me,

and slay me;

and I shall be destroyed,

I and my house.

And they said,

Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

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When Judah saw her,

he thought her to be an harlot;

because she had covered her face.

And he turned unto her by the way,

and said,

Go to,

I pray thee,

let me come in unto thee;

(for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.)

And she said,

What wilt thou give me,

that thou mayest come in unto me?

And he said,

I will send thee a kid from the flock.

And she said,

Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

And he said,

What pledge shall I give thee?

And she said,

Thy signet,

and thy bracelets,

and thy staff that is in thine hand.

And he gave it her,

and came in unto her,

and she conceived by him.

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The watchmen that went about the city found me,

they smote me,

they wounded me;

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the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

I charge you,

O daughters of Jerusalem,

if ye find my beloved,

that ye tell him,

that I am sick of love.

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There is Edom,

her kings,

and all her princes,

which with their might are - laid by - them that were slain by the sword:

they shall lie with the uncircumcised,

and with them that go down to the pit.

There be the princes of the north,

all of them,

and all the Zidonians,

which are gone down with the slain;

with their terror they are ashamed of their might;

and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword,

and bear their shame with them - that go down to the pit.

Pharaoh shall see them,

and shall be comforted over all his multitude,

even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword,

saith the Lord God.

ISethamuelyeaon

For I have caused my terror in the land of the living:

and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword,

even Pharaoh and all his multitude,

saith the Lord God.

MeISamuelyeaonamallahyeaon

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And she arose,

and went away, . . .

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And Rebekah lifted up her eyes,

and when she saw Isaac,

she lighted off the camel.

For she had said unto the servant,

What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?

And the servant - had said,

It is my master:

therefore - she took a veil,

and covered herself.

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. . . and laid by - her veil - from her,

and put on the garments of her widowhood. . . .

. . . And Judah acknowledged them,

and said,

She hath been more righteous than I;

because that I gave her not to Shelah my son.

And he knew her - again  no more.

. . . And it came to pass in the time of her travail,

that,

behold,

twins were in her womb.

And it came to pass,

when she travailed,

that the one put out his hand:

and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread,

saying,

This came out first.

And it came to pass,

as he drew back his hand,

that,

behold,

his brother came out:

and she said,

How hast thou broken forth?

this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

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The sons of Pharez;

. . . And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

And Boaz begat Obed,

and Obed begat Jesse.

And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab,

and Abinadab the second,

and Shimma the third,

Nethaneel the fourth,

Raddai the fifth,

Ozem the sixth,

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And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;

and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day,

and sanctified it:

because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

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David the seventh:

Prayer of the Canaanites

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.

Give us this day our daily bread.

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For the Lord will plead their cause,

and spoil the soul of those -that spoiled them.

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.

If thou hast - nothing to pay,

why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

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And forgive us our debts,

as we forgive our debtors.

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O come,

let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

For he is our God;

and we the people of his pasture,

and the sheep of his hand.

Today if ye will hear his voice,

Harden not your heart,

as in the provocation,

and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

When your fathers tempted me,

proved me,

and saw my work.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation,

and said,

It is a people that do err in their heart,

 and they have not known my ways:

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For God,

said she,

hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel,

whom Cain slew.

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Unto whom

ISethuamelyeon sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

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And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom,

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And the Lord said unto Satan,

Behold,

all that he hath is in thy power;

only upon himself put not forth thine hand.

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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,

they were dismayed and confounded:

they were as the grass of the field,

and as the green herb,

as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

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and the power,

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And the glory

of the Lord shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall see it together:

for the mouth of the

Lord ISamuelyeaon

hath spoken it.

The voice said,

Cry.

And he said,

What shall I cry?

All - flesh is grass,

and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

The grass withereth,

the flower fadeth:

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And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it:

surely the people - is grass.

      The grass withereth,

the flower fadeth:

but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

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and the glory,

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Of the increase of his

government and peace there shall be no end,

upon the

throne of David,

and upon his kingdom,

to order it,

and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever.

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Yea

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for ever.

A men.

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And Lot went up - out of Zoar,

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And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh:

as it is said to this day,

In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

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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.

Tamar

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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Go to,

I pray thee,

let me come in unto thee;

(for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.)

And she said,

What wilt thou give me,

that thou mayest come in unto me?

And he said,

I will send thee a kid from the flock.

And she said,

Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

And he said,

What pledge shall I give thee?

And she said,

Thy signet,

and thy bracelets,

and thy staff that is in thine hand.

And he gave it her,

and came in unto her,

and she conceived by him.

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And they made their father drink wine that night:

and the firstborn went in,

and lay with her father;

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For since - the beginning - of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen,

O God,

beside thee,

what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

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and he - perceived not when she lay down,

nor when she arose.

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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.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: . . .

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And it shall be,

when he lieth down,

that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie,

and thou shalt go in,

and uncover his feet,

and lay thee down;

and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.

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. . . 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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Prayer of the Moabites

After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father

which art in heaven,

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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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Hallowed be thy name.

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And Abram said,

Behold,

to me thou hast given no seed:

and,

lo,

one born in my house is mine heir.

And,

behold,

the word of the Lord came unto him,

saying,

This shall not be thine heir;

but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

And he brought him forth abroad,

and said,

Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars,

if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him,

So shall thy seed be.

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Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth,

as it is in heaven, . . .

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And it came to pass,

when they were gone over,

that Elijah said unto Elisha,

Ask what I shall do for thee,

before

I be taken away from thee.

And Elisha said,

I pray thee,

let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

And he said,

Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless,

if thou see me when I am taken from thee,

it shall be so unto thee; but if not,

it shall not be so.

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.

And Elisha saw it,

and he cried,

My father,

my father,

the chariot of Israel,

and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more:

and he took hold of his own clothes,

and rent them in two pieces.

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. . . Thy will be done in earth,

as it is in heaven,

so in earth.

Give us this day our daily bread.

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

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

A-men.

ISamuelyeaon

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus,

that all the world should be taxed.

 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.