So turn and leave in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!”

For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord to his people will accomplish this.

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks? (Selah)

Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?

Surely the king’s authority is absolute; no one can say to him, “What are you doing?”

“For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The intense devotion of the Lord who commands armies will accomplish this.

You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.

This is what you must do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins inadvertently or through ignorance; so you will make atonement for the temple.

You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.” “All right,” they replied, “you may do as you say.”

so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord.”

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.