Burnt offerings IV

His Wives

And they shall be afraid - and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

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Methuselah

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

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

Apil-Sin, king of Ethiopia, father of, in the beginning who took to wife So, daughter of the most high Egyptian priest of Orion. So his wife begat, Adam: And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

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In the selfsame day entered Noah,

and Shem,

and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah,

and Noah's wife,

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Therefore shall a man leave his father - and his mother,

and shall cleave unto his wife:

and they shall be one flesh.

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And they were both naked, the man and his wife,

and were not ashamed.

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And they - heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:

and Adam and his wife hid themselves - from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

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And the Lord God called unto Adam,

and said unto him,

Where art thou?

And he said,

I heard - thy voice in the garden,

and I was afraid,

because I was naked;

and I hid myself.

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And Adam called - his wife's name Eve;

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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 Adam knew - Eve his wife;

and she conceived,

and bare Cain,

and said,

I have gotten a man from the Lord.

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And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. . . . 

And Zillah, - she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron:

and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

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And Lamech said unto

his wives, Ad-ah and Zillah,

Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech:

for I have slain a man to my wounding,

and a young man to my hurt.

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy - and sevenfold.

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and the three wives of his sons - with them, into the ark;

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And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem,

and Ham,

and Japheth:

and Ham is the father of Canaan.

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And he drank of the wine,

and was drunken;

and he was uncovered within his tent.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

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

And he said,

Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

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And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

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

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And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, And the Jebusite, and the Amorite,  . . . and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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Babylon the beginning

And Israel said unto Joseph,

Behold,

I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

Babylon the beginning

Apil-Sin was a King in the First Dynasty of

Babylon. He reigned ca. 1767 BC - 1749 BC.

Apil-Sin was an Amorite King of the First Dynasty of Babylon (the Amorite Dynasty). He reigned c.  BC -  BC.[]

Year in which Apil-Sin entered the house of his father

Apil-Sin was a King in the First Dynasty of Babylon.

He reigned ca.  BC -  BC.

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If thou do-est well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou do-est not well, sin lieth at the door.

And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

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Ruth

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:

then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

And he stayed yet other seven days;

and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

And the dove came in to him in the evening;

and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off:

so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

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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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And Rachel died, and was buried - in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

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cer-tain

 (surtn)adj. 1. Definite; fixed:

                            from American Heritage Talking

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Moreover Job continued his parable,

and said,

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

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 workman was left of her two sons and - her husband.

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And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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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.

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Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

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

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

And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

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And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain,

And God said,

Behold,

I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

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And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

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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;

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Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah -after the manner of women.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself,

saying,

After I am waxed old shall - I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

And the Lord said unto Abraham,

Wherefore did Sarah laugh,

saying,

Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Then Sarah denied,

saying,

I laughed not; for she was afraid.

And he said,

Nay;

but thou didst laugh.

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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.

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And Abraham rose up early in the morning,

and saddled his ass,

and took two of his young men with him,

and Isaac his son,

and clave the blwood for the burnt offering,

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And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law;

but Ruth clave unto her.

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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.

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