Why Law? IV

re-strain

 (ri-stran)v. tr. re-strained, re-strain-ing, re-strains. 1.   To hold back or keep in check; control: couldn't restrain the tears. To hold (a person) back; prevent: restrained them from going. 2. To deprive of freedom or liberty. 3. To limit or restrict.[Middle English restreinen, from Old French restraindre, restreign-, from Latin restringere, to bind back. See RESTRICT.]--re-strain'a-ble adj. --re-strain'ed-ly (-stranid-le). adv. --re-strain'er n.

                                                                            Excerpted from American Heritage

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And God

said,

Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place

**

And

Cush begat Nimrod:

he

began to be a mighty

one

in the earth.

**

And

the whole earth was

of

one

language,

and

of

one

speech.

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.

***

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.

**

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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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 defiled 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.

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:

**

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid;

and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth;

and it shall come to pass,

that

every

one

that findeth

me shall slay me.

***

and

I

being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me;

and

I

shall be destroyed,

I

and house.

And they said,

Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

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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,

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:

wherefore

he

slew him

also.

***

For

we

must needs die,

and

are as water

spilt

on

the

ground,

which

cannot

be

gathered up

again;

***

And if a man shall take

his brother's wife,

it is

an

unclean thing:

he

hath uncovered

his

brother's nakedness;

they

shall be childless.

And

do ye

abide

without

the camp seven days:

whosoever

hath killed

any person,

and

whosoever

hath touched any slain,

purify both yourselves

and

your captives

on the

third day,

and

on

the

seventh day.

***

neither

doth God respect

any person:

yet

doth

he

devise means,

that his

banished

be not

expelled

from

him.

***

And,

lo,

while

she yet

talked with the king,

**

And

she yet

again

conceived,

and

bare a son;

and

called his name Shelah:

and

he

was at Chezib,

when

she

bare

him.

***

he

spilled it on the ground,

**

How

art thou

fallen from heaven,

O Lucifer,

son

of

the morning!

how

art thou

cut down

to

the

ground,

which didst weaken

the

nations!

For thou hast

said

in

thine heart,

I will ascend into heaven,

I

will exalt my throne above the stars of God:

I

will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,

And thy seed shall be as the dust of

the earth,

and

thou shalt spread abroad to the west,

and

to the east,

and

to

the north,

and

to

the south:

and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

***

in the sides of the north:

I

will

ascend above

the

heights of the clouds;

I

will be like the most High.

Yet

thou

shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

**

And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

**

Wherefore

thus

saith the Holy One of Israel,

Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

***

How art thou fallen from heaven,

O Lucifer,

son of the morning!

how art thou cut down to the ground,

which didst weaken the nations!

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

I will ascend above the heights

Of

the

clouds;

I will be like the most High.

Yet thou

shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee,

saying,

Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,

that did shake kingdoms;

That made the world as a wilderness,

and destroyed the cities thereof;

that opened not the house of his prisoners?

All the kings of the nations,

even all of them,

lie in glory,

every one

in

his own house.

But thou

 art

cast out of

thy grave

like an abominable branch,

and

as

the raiment

of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit;

as

a

carcase

trodden under feet.

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed

thy land,

and

slain thy people:

the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Prepare slaughter for his children for the inequity of their fathers;

that they do not rise,

nor possess the land,

nor fill the face of the world with cities.

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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 Shuah 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, 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.

When Judah

saw her,

he

thought her to be

an harlot;

because she had covered her face.

**

Because thy rage against me,

and

thy

tumult,

is come up into mine ears,

therefore

will I put

my

hook in thy nose,

and

my

bridle in thy lips,

and

I will

turn

thee back

by

the way

by

which thou camest.

***

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?

***

The

pastures

are clothed

with

flocks;

the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

Sing forth the honour of his name:

*

and

shall call his name Immanuel.

*

Make

his

praise glorious.

Say unto God,

How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.

All the earth shall worship thee,

and

shall sing unto thee;

they shall sing to thy name.

 Immanuel

Selah.

Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

ISamuelYea