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Nehemiah 8:12
All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

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Exodus 5:1
Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’ ”

Exodus 12:14
This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

Ezra 3:10
When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

Ezra 3:12
But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,

Ezra 3:13
so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.

Ezra 6:22
and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

Nehemiah 12:43
They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.

Isaiah 25:6
In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

Isaiah 25:7
He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

Isaiah 25:8
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Jeremiah 31:14
I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

Zechariah 9:17
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

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Leviticus 16:16
He shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins; and so he shall do for the Tent of Meeting that dwells with them in the middle of their uncleanness.

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Numbers 19:11
“He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Ezekiel 24:17
Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

Ezekiel 24:22
You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.

Hosea 9:4
They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.

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Exodus 24:11
He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

Leviticus 23:40
You shall take on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.

Deuteronomy 16:15
You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man shall give as he is able, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you.

1 Chronicles 29:22
and ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.

Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Ecclesiastes 3:13
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 8:15
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

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Deuteronomy 26:11
You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.

Isaiah 30:29
You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

Acts 2:44
All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

Galatians 2:10
They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

1 Thessalonians 5:16
Always rejoice.

Philemon 1:7
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

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Deuteronomy 31:21
It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”

Nehemiah 9:25
They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

Nehemiah 9:26
“Nevertheless they were disobedient and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

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Deuteronomy 14:26
You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

Deuteronomy 14:27
You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

1 Kings 8:66
On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

2 Chronicles 7:10
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

2 Chronicles 29:36
Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

2 Chronicles 30:21
The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. The Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 30:22
Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 30:23
The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.

2 Chronicles 30:24
For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

2 Chronicles 30:25
All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.

2 Chronicles 30:26
So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.

Psalms 100:1
Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

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Nehemiah 2:1
In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

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Nehemiah 8:18
Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

Nehemiah 9:3
They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed and worshiped Yahweh their God.

Proverbs 8:32
“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 8:33
Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Amos 4:12
“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

Mark 2:2
Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

Luke 19:48
They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

Acts 10:33
Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

Acts 13:42
So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

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Esther 9:20
Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,

Esther 9:21
to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,

1 Corinthians 13:6
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

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Psalms 100:2
Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

Psalms 147:1
Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.

1 John 1:3
that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:4
And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

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Psalms 103:18
to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

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Psalms 118:11
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.

Psalms 118:12
They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

Psalms 118:13
You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

Psalms 118:14
Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.

Psalms 118:16
The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”

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Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Psalms 119:127
Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Psalms 119:130
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

Psalms 119:171
Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

Psalms 119:174
I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Proverbs 2:11
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Proverbs 24:13
My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;

Proverbs 24:14
so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

Luke 24:32
They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

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Psalms 126:1
When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Psalms 126:2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”

Psalms 126:3
Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.

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Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Job 31:14
what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

Job 31:15
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

Job 31:16
“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 31:18
(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

Job 31:19
if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

Job 31:20
if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

Proverbs 3:9
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase;

Proverbs 3:28
Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

Luke 14:12
He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

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2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Nehemiah 9:9
“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

Joel 1:13
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

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Psalms 89:15
Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

Isaiah 1:11
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.

Isaiah 1:14
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

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Isaiah 29:24
They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

Isaiah 32:4
The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

Matthew 11:25
At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

Matthew 16:17
Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Acts 6:7
The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Acts 26:9
“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 26:10
I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

Acts 26:11
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Galatians 1:23
but they only heard, “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”

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Job 23:12
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Psalms 19:9
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

Psalms 19:10
They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Psalms 19:11
Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

Psalms 40:8
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Psalms 119:24
Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

Psalms 119:72
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Psalms 119:92
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Psalms 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Psalms 119:111
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Isaiah 64:5
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

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Isaiah 51:11
Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 52:9
Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 31:12
They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.

Jeremiah 31:13
Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Jeremiah 33:11
the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

Zephaniah 3:14
Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

Zechariah 8:19
Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

Zechariah 10:7
Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine. Yes, their children will see it and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

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Mark 12:37
Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly.

Luke 15:1
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

Acts 2:42
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

Acts 13:43
Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Acts 13:44
The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

Acts 13:48
As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.

James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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Luke 4:16
He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

Acts 13:15
After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

Acts 13:27
For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Acts 15:21
For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

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Luke 14:14
and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

Luke 14:24
For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

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Ezra 3:1
When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

Ezra 3:2
Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his relatives, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Ezra 3:3
In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

Ezra 3:4
They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

Ezra 3:5
and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to Yahweh.

Ezra 3:6
From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid.

John 7:8
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

John 7:9
Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

John 7:10
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

John 11:55
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

John 12:1
Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

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Psalms 119:54
Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

Psalms 119:121
I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.

Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

Romans 7:22
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,

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