Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.

They helped David fight against raiding bands, for all of them were warriors and leaders in the army.

Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

As he began settling his accounts, a man who owed ten thousand talents was brought to him.

And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

They stood these men before the apostles, who prayed and placed their hands on them.

In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing of abominations will come one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”

Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

For these past two years there has been famine in the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid him a thousand talents of silver to gain his support and to solidify his control of the kingdom.

Each of the pillars was about 27 feet high, about 18 feet in circumference, three inches thick, and hollow.

In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

The wise men replied to the king: [What follows is in Aramaic] “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will disclose its interpretation.”

After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn’t he?”

To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,

“‘If anyone dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he must shave his head on the day of his purification – on the seventh day he must shave it.