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«The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan»
«Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, / That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, / Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, / That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.»
«Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: pledge, sureties
«No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: millstone, millstones, nether, pledge
«Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; / That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: / And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.»
«Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bring out, pledge
«They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: pledge, pluck
«Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: / But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.»
«I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people»
«Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood»

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