This is what the Lord says: “Just as a shepherd salvages from the lion’s mouth a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be salvaged. They will be left with just a corner of a bed, and a part of a couch.”

Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, along with the whole remnant of the people, obeyed the Lord their God. They responded favorably to the message of the prophet Haggai, who spoke just as the Lord their God had instructed him, and the people began to respect the Lord.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of all.

Then some of the experts in the law answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well!”

In this way the word of the Lord continued to grow in power and to prevail.

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

and he was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Merari’s descendants by their clans were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

This is the account of Shem. Shem was 100 old when he became the father of Arphaxad, two years after the flood.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I raise my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow

These were the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families, according to their places, by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,

They were the men who were speaking to Pharaoh king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. It was the same Moses and Aaron.

Then on the fifteenth day of the same month will be the festival of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles.

You must number them from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work of the tent of meeting.

When the community assembled against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting – and the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.

“These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.