Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.

Then the Philistine said, “I defy Israel’s troops this day! Give me a man so we can fight each other!”

Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel?

The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.

For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

He issued this edict because a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah.

But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

But Rebekah’s brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.”

That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported.

In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

You are to tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers per person; and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.