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They said to him, "Be quiet!" Put your hand on your mouth and come with us. You shall be a father and priest to us. Do you prefer to be a priest in the house of one individual or to be a priest for a tribe of Israel?" (Judges 18, 19)
Saul became very angry at Jonathan and told him, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you prefer the son of Jesse to your shame and your mother's shame? (1 Samuel 20, 30)
Ahab asked Naboth, "Give me your vineyard which is near my house that I may use it for a vegetable garden. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange. Or, if you prefer, I will pay you its price." (1 Kings 21, 2)
Do with me as you will. Order my life taken from me, and turn me into dust, because I prefer death to life. In this way free me and let me return to dust. It is better for me to die than to live, because these unjust reproaches have caused me great distress. Command that I be now released from trials, and let me enter my eternal dwelling place. Do not turn your face away from me." (Tobit 3, 6)
I would prefer death by strangling rather than such a trial. (Job 7, 15)
"This is my resting place forever; this I prefer, here will I dwell. (Psalms 132, 14)
Shall I say, "Let darkness hide me, I prefer the night as my light?" (Psalms 139, 11)
I prefer to bravely sacrifice my life now, as befits my old age. (2 Maccabees 6, 27)
When the first had left the world in this way, they brought the second for execution. After stripping the skin with the hair from his head, they asked him: "Which do you prefer: to eat the flesh of a pig or to be tortured limb by limb?" (2 Maccabees 7, 7)
Learning that the Jews do not wish to adopt Greek customs, as it was the will of my father, but prefer their own way of life and ask that they be allowed to live according to their laws, (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
Prefer my teaching to silver and seek wisdom rather than gold, (Proverbs 8, 10)
He has set fire and water before you; you stretch out your hand to whichever you prefer. (Ecclesiasticus 15, 16)