Did Abraham not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”

Abram (that is, Abraham).

“When a man’s head is bare so that he is balding in back, he is clean.

For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

For he spoke, and it came into existence, he issued the decree, and it stood firm.

The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.

The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.

But if the bright spot stays in its place, has not spread on the skin, and it has faded, then it is the swelling of the burn, so the priest is to pronounce him clean, because it is the scar of the burn.

and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,

Now his father and mother did not realize this was the Lord’s doing, because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

However, Saul said nothing about it that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean.”

But she is unique! My dove, my perfect one! She is the special daughter of her mother, she is the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and complimented her; the queens and concubines praised her:

The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

The rock badger is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

The hare is unclean to you because it chews the cud even though its hoof is not divided.

it is a chronic disease on the skin of his body, so the priest is to pronounce him unclean. The priest must not merely quarantine him, for he is unclean.

so the priest is to examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean – it is diseased.

If his head is bare on the forehead so that he is balding in front, he is clean.