These you may eat from among water creatures: anything with fins and scales you may eat,

The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

Now look! Here is the king you have chosen – the one that you asked for! Look, the Lord has given you a king!

‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

and his son Beerah, whom King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria carried into exile. Beerah was the tribal leader of Reuben.

So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them.

Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.

Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.

‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

None of the sins he has committed will be held against him; because of the righteousness he has done, he will live.

“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

I was concerned for my holy reputation which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

“These are the decisions that you will set before them:

when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found,

from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;

Now the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

The Lord then said to me, “What they have said is good.

You will go insane from seeing all this.