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thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries

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20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD Swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
The Bible even describes the first humans as vegan: "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat," God instructs Adam and Eve in Genesis.
(265-71) [Thou mayest rest assured by this holly token I hold in my hand that I am come in peaceful wise, and seek no quarrel; for had I come in company, in fighting wise, I have both a helm and a hauberk at home, and a shield, and a sharp and brightly shining spear, and other weapons I wield there as I ween; but because I wage no warfare, my weeds are of softer sort.] In addition to signifying peace, the holly clearly carries with it connotations of "the preservation of life through the dead season," as line 207 indicates.
Thou shalt have a weight just and true, and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the Land, which our Lord thy God shal geve thee.
And show his Episcopacy to be blameless; and adorning him with all honor, present him holy, that he may be worthy to entreat those things which are for the salvation of the people, and that Thou mayest give ear unto him.
(1.) 'We have given to thee, Adam, no fixed seat, no form of thy very own, no gift peculiarly thine, that thou mayest feel as thine own, have thine own, possess as thine own the seat, the form, the gifts which thou thyself shalt desire'.
18) But that thou mayest knowe (good christian reader) (2r)
That he and his kind mayest fear the awful and powerful name of the Law they took him out of the city, like in the book by Franz Kafka that Dr.
"This day We shall save only thy body, so that thou mayest be a [warning] sign unto those who will come after thee: for, verily many among mankind are heedless of Our Signs!"(Quran 10:92)
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
"Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings."
When Wiremu Tamihana, the so-called Kingmaker, wrote to Governor Browne to justify the King movement, he referenced Deuteronomy 17:15 which states that 'one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not seta stranger over thee, which is not thy brother', and gave as examples a number of monarchs then reigning over their own people.
Upon seeing the windmills, for example, Don Quijote expresses his delight to Sancho that a great adventure awaits them: "Fortune disposes our affairs better than we ourselves could have desired: look yonder, friend Sancho Panza, where thou mayest discover somewhat more than thirty monstrous giants [...]" (28).