a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.

Now before the spies went to sleep, Rahab went up to the roof.

She was very upset as she prayed to the Lord, and she was weeping uncontrollably.

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

Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’

On the vine there were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)

She went and did as Elijah told her; there was always enough food for Elijah and for her and her family.

So she left him and closed the door behind her and her sons. As they were bringing the containers to her, she was pouring the olive oil.

I have examined all this by wisdom; I said, “I am determined to comprehend this” – but it was beyond my grasp.

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”

Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications into the sea – she will be consumed by fire.

Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”

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!”

The priest will then examine it, and if a white swelling is on the skin, it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,

If, however, the priest examines it, and there is no white hair in it, it is not deeper than the skin, and it has faded, then the priest is to quarantine him for seven days.

and a man has sexual relations with her without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught –

She would sit under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled.

God answered Manoah’s prayer. God’s angelic messenger visited the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.