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The Covenant of Circumcision
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
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Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
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The Year of Jubilee
“‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.
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“‘On the fifth day offer nine bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.
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Moses commanded the Israelites: “Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. The Lord has ordered that it be given to the nine and a half tribes,
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(Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide. It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
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and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”
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Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine and a half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
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Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain and Rimmon—a total of twenty-nine towns and their villages.
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Keilah, Akzib and Mareshah—nine towns and their villages.
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Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) and Zior—nine towns and their villages.
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Ain, Juttah and Beth Shemesh, together with their pasturelands—nine towns from these two tribes.
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Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.
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Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron.
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After they had gone through the entire land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
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He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.
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Hoshea Last King of Israel
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years.
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He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
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Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet—nine in all.
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Amaziah King of Judah
Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.
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Hezekiah Purifies the Temple
Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
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The New Residents of Jerusalem
Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten of them to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine were to stay in their own towns.
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“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?
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And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.
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“About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
