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• Exultantly he paws the soil of the valley, and charges the battle-line in all his strength. (Job 39, 21)

• The measuring-line marks out for me a delightful place, my birthright is all I could wish. (Psalms 16, 6)

• the line of his descendants cut off, his name wiped out in one generation. (Psalms 109, 13)

• 'There I shall raise up a line of descendants for David, light a lamp for my anointed; (Psalms 132, 17)

• About then, Mattathias son of John, son of Simeon, a priest of the line of Joarib, left Jerusalem and settled in Modein. (1 Maccabees 2, 1)

• who reasoned thus, 'This is a priest of Aaron's line who has come with the armed forces; he will not wrong us.' (1 Maccabees 7, 14)

• You can see, we shall have to fight on our front and to our rear; we have the waters of the Jordan on one side, the marsh and scrub on the other, and we have no line of withdrawal. (1 Maccabees 9, 45)

• 'When there was almost incessant fighting in the country Simon, son of Mattathias, a priest of the line of Joarib, and his brothers courted danger and withstood their nation's enemies to safeguard the integrity of their sanctuary and of the Law, and so brought their nation great glory; (1 Maccabees 14, 29)

• Thorns and snares line the path of the wilful, whoever values life will stay at a distance. (Proverbs 22, 5)

• The rich does wrong and takes a high line; the poor is wronged and has to beg for pardon. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 3)

• But the Lord never goes back on his mercy, never cancels any of his words, will neither deny offspring to his elect nor stamp out the line of the man who loved him. And hence, he has granted a remnant to Jacob and to David a root sprung from him. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 22)

• And I will make fair judgement the measure, and uprightness the plumb-line.' But hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and floods wash away the hiding-place; (Isaiah 28, 17)