He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.

I predestine you to die by the sword, all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, because I called to you, and you did not respond, I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; you chose to do what displeases me.”

I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”

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.

By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade, you desecrated your sanctuaries. So I drew fire out from within you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth before the eyes of all who saw you.

“The Lord who rules over all says, ‘If you live and work according to my requirements, you will be able to preside over my temple and attend to my courtyards, and I will allow you to come and go among these others who are standing by you.

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.

I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

“So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.

When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought inside, and they bowed down to the ground before him.

He said to his people, “Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!

I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

The Egyptians chased them and followed them into the middle of the sea – all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.

Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.