And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’

The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes.

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes according to their clans.

If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks.”

“This is its meaning,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches represent three days.

Joseph replied, “This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.

(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the magicians of Egypt by their secret arts did the same thing.

Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites, ‘They are wandering around confused in the land – the desert has closed in on them.’

Moses alone may come near the Lord, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”

Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.