<p class="poetry">&#8220;I have heard many things like these before.p> <p class="poetry">What miserable comforters<n id="1" /> are you all!p>

<p class="poetry">For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither,p> <p class="poetry">like an orchard<n id="1" /> that is unwatered.p>

In this manner you must offer daily throughout the seven days the food of the sacrifice made by fire as a sweet aroma to the <sc>Lordsc>. It is to be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

<p class="poetry">Even if only a tenth of the people remain in the land, it will again be destroyed,<n id="1" /> like one of the large sacred trees<n id="2" /> or an Asherah pole, when a sacred pillar on a high place is thrown down.<n id="3" /> That sacred pillar symbolizes the special chosen family.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>, who is the inheritance<n id="1" /> of Jacob&#8217;s descendants,<n id="2" /> is not like them.p> <p class="poetry">He is the one who created everything.p> <p class="poetry">And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He is known as the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Therefore, the <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Ask the people of other nationsp> <p class="poetry">whether they have heard of anything like this.p> <p class="poetry">Israel should have been like a virgin.p> <p class="poetry">But she has done something utterly revolting!p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>, who is the portion of the descendants of Jacob, is not like them.p> <p class="poetry">For he is the one who created everything,p> <p class="poetry">including the people of Israel whom he claims as his own.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He is known as the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.<n id="2" />p>

In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast,<n id="1" /> he will make the same provisions for the sin offering, burnt offering, and grain offering, and for the olive oil, for the seven days.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Rebekah said to Isaac, &#8220;I am deeply depressed<n id="1" /> because of these daughters of Heth.<n id="2" /> If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

But Aaron spoke to Moses, &#8220;See here!<n id="1" /> Just today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the <sc>Lordsc> and such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten a sin offering today would the <sc>Lordsc> have been pleased?&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Who has ever heard of such a thing?p> <p class="poetry">Who has ever seen this?p> <p class="poetry">Can a country<n id="1" /> be brought forth in one day?p> <p class="poetry">Can a nation be born in a single moment?p> <p class="poetry">Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!p>