And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

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.

And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:

Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.

And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.

Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.

To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.

Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben–oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

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.

And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.

The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.

And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him?

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

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

And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,

And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.

Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

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.

And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,

And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.

For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.

And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king’s face.

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

Before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year;

And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

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 reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.

And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.

And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:

And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.

My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.

There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.

For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.

And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,

We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.