And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.
Now when pharaoh sends for you and says, What is your business?
And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold,
And put two gold rings on the two ends of the bag.
Put the two gold chains on the two rings at the ends of the bag;
Joining the other ends of the chains to the gold frames and putting them on the front of the ephod, at the top of the arms.
Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of the bag, at the edge of it on the inner side nearest to the ephod.
And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover;
And they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the rings being fixed to the ends of the priest's bag;
And they put the two twisted chains on the two rings at the ends of the priest's bag;
And the other two ends of the chains were joined to the two frames and fixed to the front of the ephod over the arm-holes.
And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the bag, on the inner side nearest to the ephod.
The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.
And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married;
The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;
He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.
Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.
Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.
And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.
And he took thirty friends, and they were with him.
Those who make war against the Lord will be broken; against them he will send his thunder from heaven: the Lord will be judge of the ends of the earth, he will give strength to his king, lifting up the horn of him on whom the holy oil has been put.
Now when Saul's old friends saw him among the band of prophets, the people said to one another, What has come to Saul, the son of Kish? Is even Saul among the prophets?
And when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the goods to the responsible men of Judah, and to his friends, saying, Here is an offering for you from the goods of those who were fighting against the Lord;
And Abner was very angry at the words of Ish-bosheth, and he said, Am I a dog's head of Judah? I am this day doing all in my power for the cause of your father Saul and for his brothers and his friends, and have not given you up into the hands of David, and now you say I have done wrong with a woman.
For your haters, it seems, are dear to you, and your friends are hated. For you have made it clear that captains and servants are nothing to you: and now I see that if Absalom was living and we had all been dead today, it would have been right in your eyes.
It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.
The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place, in front of the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside: and there they are to this day.
Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day;
And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.
For this is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: The store of meal will not come to an end, and the bottle will never be without oil, till the day when the Lord sends rain on the earth.
So Jehu put to death all the rest of the seed of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his relations and his near friends and his priests, till there were no more of them.
Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen.
And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.
The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.
After this Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became friends with Ahaziah, king of Israel, who did much evil:
And in the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaean writing and language.
The letter was sent by Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe and their friends; the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
Then the king sent an answer to Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, and their friends living in Samaria, and to the rest of those across the river, saying, peace to you:
Then, after reading the king's letter, Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their friends went quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and had them stopped by force.
This is a copy of the letter which Tattenai, the ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and his friends the Apharsachites, living across the river, sent to Darius the king:
And second only to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of persia and Media, who were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom:)
But controlling himself, he went to his house; and he sent for his friends and Zeresh, his wife.
Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him, and in the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai: then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. And Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.
And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.
And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.
And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.
Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:
My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:
Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,
My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.
God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.
For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.
And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.
He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.
I will make answer to you and to your friends:
For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.
And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.
It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.
Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.
His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.
All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.
Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.
My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
As your name is, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth; your right hand is full of righteousness.
For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)
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In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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