If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

Later the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.

“I do not know who has done this thing,” Abimelech replied. “Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.”

When I came to the spring today, I prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.

So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.

A long time passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, and Joshua was very old.

At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.

Then Naomi said, “Stay put, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out. For the man will not rest until he has taken care of the matter today.”

She said, “In the past they would always say, ‘Let them inquire in Abel,’ and that is how they settled things.

So the Lord sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba.

Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land.

The Lord provided a deliverer for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. The Israelites once more lived in security.

If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, ‘Who will summon me?’

I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.

Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; I consider your incense detestable! You observe new moon festivals, Sabbaths, and convocations, but I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations!

The Lord who commands armies told me this: “Certainly this sin will not be forgiven as long as you live,” says the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies.

Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.

May that man be like the cities that the Lord destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.