Learn to do what is right! Promote justice! Give the oppressed reason to celebrate! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow!

For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

Now Dinah, Leah’s daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went to meet the young women of the land.

These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

So Moses did just as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation assembled at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.

Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the Lord flared up against Israel.

“Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

Now Jericho was shut tightly because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter.

The men examined some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the Lord’s advice.

The land allotted to the tribe of Gad by its clans included these cities and their towns.

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord still here, that we may ask him?”

But when they went to bury her, they found nothing left but the skull, feet, and palms of the hands.

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. Hazael attacked their eastern border.