Nehemiah 13:24

In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”

A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”

He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.

“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’ ”

Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

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.

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

From the rising of the sun to its going down, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’

If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”

Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.

For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.