Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.

For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God.

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”

The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”

The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but always disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things!”

Then tell them, ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, “I will bring my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will set his throne over these stones which I have buried. He will pitch his royal tent over them.

He will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn their gods or carry them off as captives. He will pick Egypt clean like a shepherd picks the lice from his clothing. He will leave there unharmed.

ז (Zayin) Jerusalem remembers, when she became a poor homeless person, all her treasures that she owned in days of old. When her people fell into an enemy’s grip, none of her allies came to her rescue. Her enemies gloated over her; they sneered at her downfall.

then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.

and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so.

God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

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

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

Every living creature, every creeping thing, every bird, and everything that moves on the earth went out of the ark in their groups.

These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, and according to their nations.

When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.