In a year’s time you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

Each one says, ‘Come on, I’ll get some wine! Let’s guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We’ll have everything we want!’

Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

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

Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. I want to have marital relations with her.”

Laban said, “This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today.” That is why it was called Galeed.

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,

The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!

Saul became even more afraid of him. Saul continued to be at odds with David from then on.

Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

I said to myself, ‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’

Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

Fearing the Lord prolongs life, but the life span of the wicked will be shortened.

In the morning, at the earliest sign of daylight, the king got up and rushed to the lions’ den.

He said to me, “To 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be put right again.”

“I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies!

Return to the stronghold, you prisoners, with hope; today I declare that I will return double what was taken from you.