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Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
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Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
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They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
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Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
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O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
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Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
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I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
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I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
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Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
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With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
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Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
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Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.
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With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
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I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
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I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
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I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
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Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
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Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
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I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
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My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
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Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
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Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
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Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
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Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
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My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
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I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
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Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
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My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
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Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
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I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
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I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame.
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I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
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Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
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Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
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Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
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Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
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Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
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Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
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Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
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Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
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Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
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So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
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And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
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So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
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And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
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I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
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And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
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My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
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Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
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This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
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The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
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I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.
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Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
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Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
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I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.
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This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
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Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep thy words.
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I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
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I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
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I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
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The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
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At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
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I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
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The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
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Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word.
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Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
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Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
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Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
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The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
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Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
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The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
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Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
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They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
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I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
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Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
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Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
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Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
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Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
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Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
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My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
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Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
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For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
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The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
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All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
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They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
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Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
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Leviticus 25
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And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.
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Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
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But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
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That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
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And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.
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And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
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And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
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Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
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And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
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A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
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For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
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In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
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And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
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According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
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According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
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Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the Lord your God.
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Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
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And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
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And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
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Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
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And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
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The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
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And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
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If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
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And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
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Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
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But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
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And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
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And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
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But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
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Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
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And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
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But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
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And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
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Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
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Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
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I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
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And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
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But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
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And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
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For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
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Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
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Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
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Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
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And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
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After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
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Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
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And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
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If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
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And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
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And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
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And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
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For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
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Isaiah 33
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Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
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O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
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At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
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And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
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The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
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And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
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Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
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The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
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The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
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Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
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Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
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And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
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Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
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The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
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He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
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He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
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Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
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Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
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Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
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Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
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But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
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For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
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Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
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And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 34
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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
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For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
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Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
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For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
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The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
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And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
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For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
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And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
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It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
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But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
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They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
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And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
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The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
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There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
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Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
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And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Ephesians 4
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I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
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With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
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Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
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One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
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One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
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But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
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Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
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(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
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He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
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And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
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For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
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That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
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But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
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From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
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