Indeed, the signs of an apostle were performed among you with great perseverance by signs and wonders and powerful deeds.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.

Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.

Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet’s own imagination,

Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers (even though they are strangers).

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!”

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people whom you have bought pass by.

They are to tie the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it may be above the waistband of the ephod, and so that the breastpiece will not be loose from the ephod.

You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

So Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from every tribe, with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who was in charge of the holy articles and the signal trumpets.

“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses; but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

I prayed to him: O, Lord God, do not destroy your people, your valued property that you have powerfully redeemed, whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength.

You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the Lord your God; you must not do any work on that day.

If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.