“My covenant with him was designed to bring life and peace. I gave its statutes to him to fill him with awe, and he indeed revered me and stood in awe before me.

This advice made sense to Pharaoh and all his officials.

The Israelites did so, and they gathered – some more, some less.

and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

I will reside among the Israelites, and I will be their God,

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

He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required;

They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the falcon after its species,

the stork, the heron after its species, the hoopoe, the bat,

So on that day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites,

For the Lord’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.

So Joshua instructed the priests, “Come up from the Jordan!”

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes and gave them to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.

So they commanded the Benjaminites, “Go hide in the vineyards,

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.