The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship the Lord.”

Do not say to your neighbor, “Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when you have it with you at the time.

At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.”

Saul again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the Lord.