Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

As one who is above your brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”

and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),

Anyone who accidentally killed someone without hating him at the time of the accident could flee to one of those cities and be safe.

the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

God will severely punish David, if I leave alive until morning even one male from all those who belong to him!”

“Go, tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I am offering you three forms of judgment from which to choose. Pick one of them.”’”

I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.

The words of the sages are like prods, and the collected sayings are like firmly fixed nails; they are given by one shepherd.

And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me.

Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:

(Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him and lead him away under guard.”)

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!”

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.