So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the Lord has spoken.

At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.”

When the Israelites heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh to launch an attack against them.

Now King David heard about all these things and was very angry.

Ben-Hesed was in charge of Arubboth; he controlled Socoh and all the territory of Hepher.

Ben-Abinadab was in charge of Naphath Dor. (He was married to Solomon’s daughter Taphath.)

He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.

These Gadites were military leaders; the least led a hundred men, the greatest a thousand.

According to David’s final instructions, the Levites twenty years old and up were counted.

and he contends with God on behalf of man as a man pleads for his friend.

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.

You are the most handsome of all men! You speak in an impressive and fitting manner! For this reason God grants you continual blessings.

For the music director; by the Korahites; a psalm. All you nations, clap your hands! Shout out to God in celebration!

For the music director, a psalm by the Korahites. Listen to this, all you nations! Pay attention, all you inhabitants of the world!

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.

Whoever brings a fool into the world does so to his grief, and the father of a fool has no joy.

Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?