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You gave them bread from heaven for their starvation, and you caused water to go out from a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in order to take into possession the land that you have sworn by your hand to give to them.

You made their children numerous like the stars of the heavens and brought them to the land that you told their ancestors to enter in order to take possession.

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites from all of their places in order to bring them to Jerusalem to do the dedication with joy, thanksgivings, song and cymbals, stringed instruments and lyres.

On that day men were appointed for the storehouse rooms, the offerings, the first fruits, and the tithes, in order to gather in them from the fields of the cities the requirements of the law for the priests and Levites; for the joy of Judah was upon the priests and Levites standing there.

because they did not come to meet the Israelites with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them in order to curse them—but our God changed the curse into a blessing.

And then I told two Levites that they must purify themselves and come to guard the gates in order to consecrate the day of the Sabbath. Remember this also, my God, and take pity on me according to the greatness of your loyal love.

Who is the man who desires life, who loves many days in order to see good?

But as for me, the approach to God is for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh as my refuge, in order to tell all your works.

in order to incline your ear toward wisdom, then you shall apply your heart to understanding.

in order to guard paths of justice and keep the way of his faithful ones.

in order to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things—

in order to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman who flatters with her sayings,

Children, listen to the instruction of a father, and be attentive in order to know insight.

in order to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips.

in order to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.

In order to guard yourself from an adulteress, from the foreigner who makes her words smooth.

in order to endow those who love me with wealth, and I will fill their treasuries.

Happy is the person who listens to me, in order to keep watch at my doors day by day, in order to guard the frames of my entrances.

in order to call to those who pass by the road, those who go straight on their way:

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, in order to avoid the snares of death.