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And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.