“I destroyed nations; their walled cities are in ruins. I turned their streets into ruins; no one passes through them. Their cities are desolate; no one lives there.

Then someone will ask him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ and he will answer, ‘Some that I received in the house of my friends.’

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,

You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.

“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.

along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land. Then I brought you out.

The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

Now Joab was the general in command of all the army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoida was over the Kerethites and the Perethites.

Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the temple’s porch.

But he went no further than the king’s gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

Then King Ahasuerus responded to Queen Esther, “Who is this individual? Where is this person to be found who is presumptuous enough to act in this way?”

When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,