Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.

The man did just as Joseph said; he brought the men into Joseph’s house.

And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.

He then handed out to each Israelite man and woman a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.

Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”

And each of you take his censer, put incense in it, and then each of you present his censer before the Lord: 250 censers, along with you, and Aaron – each of you with his censer.”

But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

Now select for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one per tribe.

Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one per tribe.

That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites – all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

All Israel rose up in unison and said, “Not one of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house!

The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.

The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the people from Cuth made Nergal, the people from Hamath made Ashima,

Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

One commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister – his father’s daughter – within you.

They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.