So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days.

“This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.

So these officials said to the king, “This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. This man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.”

Then Abimelech asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?”

So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”

So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”

“Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob.

They answered him, “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”

I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.”’”

The Lord set an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.”

“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.

They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What will I do with this people? – a little more and they will stone me!”

In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on the very day, they came to the Desert of Sinai.

If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”