Psalms 50:18Open English Bible (Commonwealth)

Ruth 2:21

‘He told me,’ Ruth said, ‘that I must keep near his young men until they have completed all his harvest.’

Ruth 4:4

and I thought that I would lay the matter before you, suggesting that you buy it in the presence of these men who sit here and of the elders of my people. If you will buy it and so keep it in the possession of the family, do so; but if not; then tell me, so that I may know; for no one but you has the right to buy it, and I am next to you.’ ‘I will buy it,’ he said.

Esther 3:8

So Haman said to King Ahasuerus, ‘There is a certain people scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, whose laws differ from those of every other and who do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not right for the king to tolerate them.

Esther 9:19

This is why the Jews who live in the country villages keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of rejoicing and feasting and a holiday, and a day in which they send gifts of food to each other.

Esther 9:21

He told them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and also the fifteenth day every year,