So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.

or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity –

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth – just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

“Tell the Israelites, ‘When a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit, thereby breaking faith with the Lord, and that person is found guilty,

For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself.

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods.

“‘This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?

“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

and 32,000 young women who had never had sexual intercourse with a man.

There you will worship gods made by human hands – wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite.) Then the land was free of war.

Samson said to her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man.”

He said to her, “If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, I will become weak and be just like any other man.”

David said to Saul, “Don’t let anyone be discouraged. Your servant will go and fight this Philistine!”

David said to Saul, “Why do you pay attention when men say, ‘David is seeking to do you harm’?

I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

And you didn’t stop there, O Lord God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Lord God?

The God of Israel spoke, the protector of Israel spoke to me. The one who rules fairly among men, the one who rules in the fear of God,