Flax

The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.

Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):

This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.

The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”

Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment; — read the full passage →

whether it is in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; — read the full passage →

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their plunder, and gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →

Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. — read the full passage →

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

The days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. — read the full passage →

They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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 said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

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

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →