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Genesis 38:16-18
He turned aside to her along the road and said,“ Come on! I want to have sex with you.”( He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked,“ What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?”He replied,“ I’ll send you a young goat from the flock.” She asked,“ Will you give me a pledge until you send it?”He said,“ What pledge should I give you?” She replied,“ Your seal, your cord, and the staff that’s in your hand.” So he gave them to her and had sex with her. She became pregnant by him.
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Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to conduct ourselves rightly in every respect.
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2 Samuel 20 20
Joab answered,“ Get serious! I don’t want to swallow up or destroy anything!
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Genesis 35:22
While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
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Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good reputation is better than precious perfume; likewise, the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.
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Genesis 34:25-31
In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city and slaughtered every male.They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and left.Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,“ You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land– among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”But Simeon and Levi replied,“ Should he treat our sister like a common prostitute?”
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Proverbs 22:1
A good name is to be chosen rather than great wealth, good favor more than silver or gold.
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Joshua 22:22-29
“ El, God, the LORD! El, God, the LORD! He knows the truth! Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the LORD, don’t spare us today!If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘ What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel?The LORD made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the LORD.’ In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying the LORD.So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘ You have no right to worship the LORD.’We said,‘ If in the future they say such a thing to us or to our descendants, we will reply,“ See the model of the LORD’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD by turning back today from following after the LORD by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace aside from the altar of the LORD our God located in front of his dwelling place!”
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2 Kings 8 13
Hazael said,“ How could your servant, who is as insignificant as a dog, accomplish this great military victory?” Elisha answered,“ The LORD has revealed to me that you will be the king of Syria.”
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Genesis 37:18-32
Now Joseph’s brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.They said to one another,“ Here comes this master of dreams!Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying,“ Let’s not take his life!”Reuben continued,“ Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.”( Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.Then they took him and threw him into the cistern.( Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.Then Judah said to his brothers,“ What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,returned to his brothers, and said,“ The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said,“ We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”
