in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.
"All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."
The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'
"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
He said, "It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear."
It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.
Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.
The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.
I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again, says the Lord the LORD.
The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you have become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.
They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.
I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
"We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.
This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;
For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
"There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and sent to perform their duties, are obedient.
"Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'
They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
If these ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.
Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
So Job died, being old and full of days. BOOK I
Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ).
Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"
After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.
He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
"'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.
He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being pregnant.
The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
as well as those who were troubled by unclean spirits, and they were being healed.
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.
"That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation;
For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean."
When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha cumi!" which means, being interpreted, "Girl, I tell you, get up!"
For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."
Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull."
At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is, being interpreted, "God with us."
Being warned in a dream that they shouldn't return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.
But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,
"Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer."
The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.
So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
I said, "Should such a man as I flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in."
Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.
The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.
But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"
"'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;
Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
"Also when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
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