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He was with God in the beginning.

The same was in the beginning with God.

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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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The LORD brought me forth at the beginning of his work, before the things he made long ago.

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

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In the beginning the Word already was. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this message came from the LORD:

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,

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And he also says, "In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

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At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

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At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus, they wrote to him and made a formal charge against the people living in Judah and Jerusalem.

And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

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This is the message from the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam, at the start of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

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At the start of each month bring a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all with nothing wrong with them.

And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;

Matched on beginning, which the King James words differently here.

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You Philippians know that in the early days of the good news, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the giving and receiving of support except you.

Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

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So Naomi returned, and with her Ruth the Moabite woman, her daughter-in-law, who came back from the country of Moab. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

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This is what the Lord GOD showed me. He was making a swarm of locusts, right when the late crop was starting to come up. This was the crop that grew after the king had taken his cutting.

Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

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Gideon and the hundred men with him came to the edge of the camp at the start of the middle watch of the night, just after the guards had been changed. They blew their horns and smashed the jars they were holding.

So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.

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He handed them over to the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. All seven of them died together. They were put to death during the first days of harvest, when the barley harvest was just beginning.

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

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Get up and cry out in the night, as soon as the first watch begins. Pour out your heart like water before the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your young children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

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In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the start of the year, on the tenth day of the month (fourteen years after the city was struck down) on that very day the hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me there.

In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.

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Also on your joyful days, on your set festival days, and on the first day of each month, blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your peace offerings. They will serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God."

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.

Matched on beginning, which the King James words differently here.

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That same year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year of his reign, in the fifth month, the prophet Hananiah son of Azur, who came from the town of Gibeon, spoke to me in the LORD's temple, in front of the priests and all the people. He said:

And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

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All of these things are only the beginning of the birth pains.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

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It was the day of preparation, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

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Even though you started out small, your later years would grow to be very great.

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

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This is the beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

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The place of our holy sanctuary is a glorious throne, lifted high from the beginning.

A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

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But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

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