Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, arrived in Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker, well-versed in the scriptures.

A man named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,

When he brought me there, I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

He will provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a gallon of olive oil for each ephah of grain.

Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over its convocations a cloud and smoke by day and a bright flame of fire by night; indeed a canopy will accompany the Lord’s glorious presence.

After Joseph bought a linen cloth and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone across the entrance of the tomb.

Issachar is a strong-boned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.

and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

The Lord said, “Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.

The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again.

Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

The Lord said to Jonah a second time,

All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

You are to make a grating for it, a network of bronze, and you are to make on the network four bronze rings on its four corners.

O God, I will sing a new song to you! Accompanied by a ten-stringed instrument, I will sing praises to you,

when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them.

If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him.