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Acting Ephesians 5:1

Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

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Acting 3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

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Acting 1 Corinthians 11:1

You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

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Acting Ephesians 5:11

Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

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Acting John 14:15

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

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Contacting the Dead 1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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Contacting the Dead Deuteronomy 18:10

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

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Contacting the Dead Hebrews 9:27

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

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Contacting the Dead Revelation 21:8

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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Contacting the Dead Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

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Contacting the Dead Revelation 16:14

These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

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Contacting the Dead James 2:19

You believe that God is one. Good for you! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.

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Contacting the Dead Deuteronomy 18:11, 12

casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. / For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

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Contacting the Dead Romans 10:9

that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

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Covetousness in Exacting Usury from Their Brethren Nehemiah 5:1–11

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. / Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.” / Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

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Creditors: Often Cruel in Exacting Debts Nehemiah 5:7–9

and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them / and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say. / So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

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Creditors: Often Cruel in Exacting Debts Job 24:3–9

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. / They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. / Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

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Creditors: Often Cruel in Exacting Debts Matthew 18:28–30

But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ / So his fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you back.’ / But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

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Creditors: Prohibited From: Exacting Debts from Brethren During Sabbatical Year Deuteronomy 15:2, 3

This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed. / You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

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Creditors: Prohibited From: Exacting Usury from Brethren Exodus 22:25

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

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Creditors: Prohibited From: Exacting Usury from Brethren Leviticus 25:36, 37

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you. / You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

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Eating: The Host Acting As Waiter Genesis 18:8

Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.

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Extortion: Pharaoh in Exacting of the Egyptians Lands and Persons, for Corn (Grain) Genesis 47:13–26

There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine. / Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace. / When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”

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Integrity: Samuel, in Exacting Nothing from the People on Account of his Services 1 Samuel 12:4

“You have not wronged us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”

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Marriage: The Jews: Careful in Contracting for Their Children Genesis 24:2, 3

So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh, / and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,

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Marriage: The Jews: Careful in Contracting for Their Children Genesis 28:1, 2

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded. / “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

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Patriarchal Government: Exercised in Acting As Judges Genesis 38:24

About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”

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Patriarchal Government: Exercised in Acting As Priests Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Patriarchal Government: Exercised in Acting As Priests Genesis 12:7, 8

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him. / From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

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Patriarchal Government: Exercised in Acting As Priests Genesis 35:1–7

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” / So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments. / Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

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Patriarchal Government: Exercised in Acting As Priests Job 1:5

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

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Priests: First Notice of Persons Acting As Genesis 4:3, 4

So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD, / while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

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Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Earnest in Transacting Their Business Genesis 24:54–56

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.” / But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.” / But he replied, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.”

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The Poor: Punishment For: Acting Unjustly Towards Job 20:19, 29

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build. / This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”

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The Poor: Punishment For: Acting Unjustly Towards Job 22:6, 10

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing. / Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

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The Poor: Punishment For: Acting Unjustly Towards Isaiah 10:1–3

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, / to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. / What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

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The Poor: Punishment For: Acting Unjustly Towards Amos 5:11, 12

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. / For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

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The Theocracy: or Immediate Government by God: Consisted in His: Exacting Tribute Exodus 35:4–29

Moses also told the whole congregation of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded: / Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze; / blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;

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The Theocracy: or Immediate Government by God: Consisted in His: Exacting Tribute Leviticus 27:30

Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

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The Theocracy: or Immediate Government by God: Consisted in His: Exacting Tribute Deuteronomy 16:16

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

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The Theocracy: or Immediate Government by God: Consisted in His: Exacting Tribute Deuteronomy 26:1–4

When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it, / you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name, / to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”

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