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Many of them therefore became believers, together with not a few prominent Greeks, women as well as men.
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
They gathered it every morning, each as much as he needed, for when the sun became hot it melted.
But truly as I live and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord,
Foreigners yielded feigned obedience to me; as soon as they heard of me, they became obedient to me.
[The acts of the hypocrite's worship are as abominable to God as if they were offered to idols.] He who kills an ox [then] will be as guilty as if he slew and sacrificed a man; he who sacrifices a lamb or a kid, as if he broke a dog's neck and sacrificed him; he who offers a cereal offering, as if he offered swine's blood; he who burns incense [to God], as if he blessed an idol. [Such people] have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations;
And they encamped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
So the Jews undertook to do as they had begun and as Mordecai had written to them--
[You] my brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,
But you shall die as men and fall as one of the princes.
So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
As coals are to hot embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man to inflame strife.
Once he was unprofitable to you, but now he is indeed profitable to you as well as to me.
For [as many as] the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah; and [as many as] the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.
But as soon as they saw him and recognized that he was a Jew, a shout went up from them as the voice of one man, as for about two hours they cried, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!
If they then deviate from the faith and turn away from their allegiance--[it is impossible] to bring them back to repentance, for (because, while, as long as) they nail upon the cross the Son of God afresh [as far as they are concerned] and are holding [Him] up to contempt and shame and public disgrace.
THE LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for her as He had promised.
Behold, as surely as God will never uphold wrongdoers, He will never cast away a blameless man.
He counts iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.