Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

Now Jacob cooked some stew, and when Esau came in from the open fields, he was famished.

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord and recklessly went up to the hill country.

“But they – our ancestors – behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

You performed awesome signs against Pharaoh, against his servants, and against all the people of his land, for you knew that the Egyptians had acted presumptuously against them. You made for yourself a name that is celebrated to this day.

And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.

“Call for archers to come against Babylon! Summon against her all who draw the bow! Set up camp all around the city! Do not allow anyone to escape! Pay her back for what she has done. Do to her what she has done to others. For she has proudly defied me, the Holy One of Israel.