“‘These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

“Aaron must then enter the Meeting Tent and take off the linen garments which he had put on when he entered the sanctuary, and leave them there.

You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. You must not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the Lord.

along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the purification offering for atonement and the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.

For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.

But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,

the spies spotted a man leaving the city. They said to him, “If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.”

He moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.

God’s messenger said to him, “Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed.

The Lord said to the Israelites, “Did I not deliver you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

The Lord’s angelic messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, “You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son.

But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’

After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking, “I asked the Lord for him.

A man who was from there replied, “And who is their father?” Therefore this became a proverb: “Is even Saul among the prophets?”

The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What have you seen?” The woman replied to Saul, “I have seen one like a god coming up from the ground!”

The Lord has done exactly as I prophesied! The Lord has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David!

As the Lord is with my master the king, so may he be with Solomon, and may he make him an even greater king than my master King David!”