<p class="poetry">with the harvest produced by the daylight<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and by<n id="2" /> the moonlight;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do you count the months they must fulfill,p> <p class="poetry">and do you know the time they give birth?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">In the month Ziv<n id="1" /> of the fourth year of Solomon&#8217;s reign<n id="2" /> the foundation was laid for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

<p class="poetry">&#8220;O that I could be<n id="1" /> as<n id="2" /> I wasp> <p class="poetry">in the months now gone,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">in the days<n id="4" /> when God watched<n id="5" /> over me,p>

The woman became pregnant<n id="1" /> and gave birth to a son. When<n id="2" /> she saw that<n id="3" /> he was a healthy<n id="4" /> child, she hid him for three months.

<p class="poetry">That night &#8211; let darkness seize<n id="1" /> it;p> <p class="poetry">let it not be included<n id="2" /> among the days of the year;p> <p class="poetry">let it not enter among the number of the months!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">thus<n id="1" /> I have been made to inherit<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">months of futility,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and nights of sorrow<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">have been appointed<n id="5" /> to me.p>

In the eleventh year, in the month Bul<n id="1" /> (the eighth month) the temple was completed in accordance with all its specifications and blueprints. It took seven years to build.<n id="2" />p>

All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival<n id="1" /> in the month Ethanim<n id="2" /> (the seventh month).

<p class="bodytext">Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah&#8217;s<n id="1" /> reign over Judah. He reigned for one month<n id="2" /> in Samaria.

<p class="poetry">Your sun will no longer set;p> <p class="poetry">your moon will not disappear;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> will be your permanent source of light;p> <p class="poetry">your time<n id="2" /> of sorrow will be over.p>

Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month,<n id="1" /> for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well.

discard the clothing she was wearing when captured,<n id="1" /> and stay<n id="2" /> in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations<n id="3" /> with her and become her husband and she your wife.