she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to make sport of us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I screamed.

circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;

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At the beginning of their living there, they did not fear the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them which killed some of them.

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.

For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me,

“Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name?
For You alone are holy;
For all the nations will come and worship before You,
For Your

righteous acts have been revealed.”

The god

“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Thus they answered us, saying, ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

“Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace. And now

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Then the king said to me, “What would you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Give thanks to the God of heaven,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

so that they might request compassion from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.

Which

“You alone are the Lord.

You have made the heavens,

The heaven of heavens with all their host,
The earth and all that is on it,
The seas and all that is in them.

You give life to all of them

And the heavenly host bows down before You.

The sea is His, for it was He who made it,

And His hands formed the dry land.

How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these

vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

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Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.