<p class="poetry">Do you listen in on God&#8217;s secret council?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do you limit<n id="2" /> wisdom to yourself?p>

<p class="poetry">But you even break off<n id="1" /> piety,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and hinder<n id="3" /> meditation<n id="4" /> before God.p>

<p class="poetry">He draws up drops of water;p> <p class="poetry">they distill<n id="1" /> the rain into its mist,<n id="2" />p>

You<n id="1" /> go get straw for yourselves wherever you can<n id="2" /> find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.&#8217;&#8221;

If he takes another wife,<n id="1" /> he must not diminish the first one&#8217;s food,<n id="2" /> her clothing, or her marital rights.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">He does not take his eyes<n id="1" /> off the righteous;p> <p class="poetry">but with kings on the thronep> <p class="poetry">he seats the righteous<n id="2" /> and exalts them forever.<n id="3" />p>

Now if they should be married to one of the men<n id="1" /> from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry.<n id="2" /> As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

The Israelite foremen saw<n id="1" /> that they<n id="2" /> were in trouble when they were told,<n id="3" /> &#8220;You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.&#8221;p>

Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession<n id="1" /> among the relatives<n id="2" /> of our father.&#8221;p>

And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place,<n id="1" /> their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext"><v id="(13:1)" /><n id="1" /> You<n id="2" /> must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">They went up to the temple,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba,<n id="3" /> Moab wails.p> <p class="poetry">Every head is shaved bare,p> <p class="poetry">every beard is trimmed off.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For all of them will shave their heads in mourning.p> <p class="poetry">They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow.p> <p class="poetry">They will all make gashes in their hands.p> <p class="poetry">They will all put on sackcloth.<n id="1" />p>

So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

But you must require<n id="1" /> of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before.<n id="2" /> Do not reduce it, for they are slackers.<n id="3" /> That is why they are crying, &#8216;Let us go sacrifice to our God.&#8217;

but if<n id="1" /> he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price<n id="2" /> for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

And those men said to him, &#8220;We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?&#8221;

Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> your God that I am delivering to<n id="1" /> you.

<t /><p class="poetry">I also know that whatever God does will endure forever;p> <p class="poetry">nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it.p> <p class="poetry">God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;Go stand in the courtyard of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.<n id="1" /> Speak out to all the people who are coming from the towns of Judah to worship in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple. Tell them everything I command you to tell them. Do not leave out a single word!