Because of this I remind you to rekindle God’s gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob had marital relations with her.

When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you are having another son.”

This is what she said to him: “That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”

After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.

They attached the two gold chains to the two rings at the ends of the breastpiece;

Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.

Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,

“‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.

“But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

Be careful not to say, “My own ability and skill have gotten me this wealth.”

You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.

Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ –