I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

Along with Hiram’s fleet, the king had a fleet of large merchant ships that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

“Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.

His father Isaac asked, “Who are you?” “I am your firstborn son,” he replied, “Esau!”

So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.

But Joseph answered them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I have gained my honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘I am the Lord your God!

You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.

“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the Lord.

You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the Lord your God.