I gave Gilead to Machir.

I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse –

Because I give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.

While he was saying this to me, I was flat on the ground and unable to speak.

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

Then Leah said, “God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife.” So she named him Issachar.

“See here,” Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt.”

You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.

“Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

The Lord said, “The men of Judah should take the lead. Be sure of this! I am handing the land over to them.”

I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

If you stop doing these things, I will allow you to continue to live in this land which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.

“I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.

“I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.

But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”

But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the sovereign Lord.”

You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the sovereign Lord.”