Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
“Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.
“Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers' house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff,
and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each fathers' house.
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.’
And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the Lord gave them to me.
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
“And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.
“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,
And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
And you shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”
“Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.
When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book to the very end,
Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.
So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, “Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.”
“All this he made clear to me in writing from the hand of the Lord, all the work to be done according to the plan.”
Prepare yourselves according to your fathers' houses by your divisions, as prescribed in the writing of David king of Israel and the document of Solomon his son.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of their leaders.
“Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.
But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked.”
But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
The command of Esther confirmed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing.
For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then the Lord said to me, “Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’
Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,
The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.
And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
This one will say, ‘I am the Lord's,’ another will call on the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord's,’ and name himself by the name of Israel.”
Thus says the Lord: “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”
“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
“Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?”
“Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.
And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his waist. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist.
And behold, the man clothed in linen, with the writing case at his waist, brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded me.”
“Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.
“Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’
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