"But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.
how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:
Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.
The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.
"Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel."
The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.
"Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father."
"The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.
If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as the LORD commanded Moses.'"
"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,
and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
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.
"Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;
Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
"Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.
You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:
The heads of the fathers' [houses] of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel:
If they are married to any of the sons of the [other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."
This is the thing which the LORD does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.
So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall all keep the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.
for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.
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.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
Grace to you, and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:
for whom the LORD loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, "It's not wrong." He is a partner with a destroyer.
Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
I will tell of the decree. the LORD said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.
But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.
Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
"Hear my prayer, the LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.
"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!'
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
the LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.
He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."
We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
Boaz answered her, "It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.
The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi;" and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,
and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,
and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,
and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
"the LORD was very displeased with your fathers.
Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says the LORD of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD.
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as the LORD of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"
Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'
For thus says the LORD of Armies: "As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says the LORD of Armies, "and I didn't repent;
For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of the LORD;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
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