Today's Stichomancy for Thomas Jefferson

2_Kings 17: 32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

2_Kings 17: 33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

2_Kings 17: 34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel;

2_Kings 17: 35 with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying: 'Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

2_Kings 17: 36 but the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him shall ye fear, and Him shall ye worship, and to Him shall ye sacrifice;

2_Kings 17: 37 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which He wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods;

2_Kings 17: 38 and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods;

2_Kings 17: 39 but the LORD your God shall ye fear; and He will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.'

2_Kings 17: 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

2_Kings 17: 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

The Tanach

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on the greenish wall-paper.

'No use dusting it now,' he said, setting the thing against the wall.

He went to the scullery, and returned with hammer and pincers. Sitting where he had sat before, he started to tear off the back-paper from the big frame, and to pull out the sprigs that held the backboard in position, working with the immediate quiet absorption that was characteristic of him.

He soon had the nails out: then he pulled out the backboards, then the enlargement itself, in its solid white mount. He looked at the photograph with amusement.

'Shows me for what I was, a young curate, and her for what she was, a

Lady Chatterley's Lover