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Judges 19:16

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And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites.

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Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.

And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah.

For even when we were with you we commanded you this, that if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

Let the man who steals steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the good, so that he may have to give to him who has need.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Prepare thy work outside, and make it ready for thee in the field, and afterwards build thy house.

In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips [tends] only to poverty.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall have increase.

For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.

So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down upon them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

In the sweat of thy face thou shall eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it thou were taken. For thou are dust, and to dust thou shall return.

And they turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And he went in, and sat down in the street of the city, for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city. And the old man said, Where do thou go? And from where do thou come?

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will visit their sins.




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