He commanded them: “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Temporary Shelters,

five have fallen; one is, and the other has not yet come, but whenever he does come, he must remain for only a brief time.

On the fourth day they said to Samson’s bride, “Trick your husband into giving the solution to the riddle. If you refuse, we will burn up you and your father’s family. Did you invite us here to make us poor?”

And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, worth less than a penny.

“Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.

“You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the Lord.

All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them,

If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.

all the people gathered together in the plaza which was in front of the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had commanded Israel.