But Moses said, “Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the Lord our God?

how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons and everyone else.

The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!

The Beloved to Her Lover: Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards – for our vineyard is in bloom.

saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

“Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that all these things are about to take place?”

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,

You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

And if we put bits into the mouths of horses to get them to obey us, then we guide their entire bodies.

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

He said, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the slaves replied, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them?’

On the fourth day they said to Samson’s bride, “Trick your husband into giving the solution to the riddle. If you refuse, we will burn up you and your father’s family. Did you invite us here to make us poor?”

They said to one other, “Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”

The high places of the “House of Wickedness” will be destroyed; it is the place where Israel sins. Thorns and thistles will grow up over its altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

Next we set out on the route to Bashan, but King Og of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.