when they grasped you with their hand, you broke and tore their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady.

I will leave you on the ground, I will fling you on the open field, I will allow all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will permit all the wild animals to gorge themselves on you.

My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

“This is what he told me: ‘The fourth beast means that there will be a fourth kingdom on earth that will differ from all the other kingdoms. It will devour all the earth and will trample and crush it.

He will not respect the gods of his fathers – not even the god loved by women. He will not respect any god; he will elevate himself above them all.

Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels.

The Lord will terrify them, for he will weaken all the gods of the earth. All the distant nations will worship the Lord in their own lands.

I thought, ‘Certainly you will respect me! Now you will accept correction!’ If she had done so, her home would not be destroyed by all the punishments I have threatened. But they eagerly sinned in everything they did.

I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord who rules over all.

These were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials.

You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’”

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

God spoke all these words:

“Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.

So the whole community of the Israelites went out from the presence of Moses.