&#8220;Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify<n id="1" /> them.

<p class="poetry">Accept instruction<n id="1" /> from his mouthp> <p class="poetry">and store up his words<n id="2" /> in your heart.p>

<p class="poetry">Take a man&#8217;s<n id="1" /> garment when he has given security for a stranger,p> <p class="poetry">and when he gives surety for a stranger,<n id="2" /> hold him in pledge.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, &#8220;Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself.&#8221;

Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become<n id="1" /> the wife of your master&#8217;s son, just as the <sc>Lordsc> has decided.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

So his mother told him, &#8220;Any curse against you will fall on me,<n id="1" /> my son! Just obey me!<n id="2" /> Go and get them for me!&#8221;p>

Shechem said to his father Hamor, &#8220;Acquire this young girl as my wife.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up on Mount Hor.

Elisha told him, &#8220;Take a bow and some arrows,&#8221; and he did so.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">He took one of the seedlings<n id="1" /> of the land,p> <p class="poetry">placed it in a cultivated plot;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">a shoot by abundant water,p> <p class="poetry">like a willow he planted it.p>

So now, <sc>Lordsc>, kill me instead,<n id="1" /> because I would rather die than live!&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Again the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.<n id="1" />

And you must take<n id="1" /> for yourself every kind of food<n id="2" /> that is eaten,<n id="3" /> and gather it together.<n id="4" /> It will be food for you and for them.p>

Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister,&#8217; so that I took her<n id="1" /> to be my wife?<n id="2" /> Here is your wife!<n id="3" /> Take her and go!&#8221;<n id="4" />

Please take my present<n id="1" /> that was brought to you, for God has been generous<n id="2" /> to me and I have all I need.&#8221;<n id="3" /> When Jacob urged him, he took it.<n id="4" />p>

Moses said to Aaron, &#8220;Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the <sc>Lordsc> to be kept for generations to come.&#8221;

&#8220;Take<n id="1" /> choice spices:<n id="2" /> twelve and a half pounds<n id="3" /> of free-flowing myrrh,<n id="4" /> half that &#8211; about six and a quarter pounds &#8211; of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses: &#8220;Take<n id="1" /> spices, gum resin,<n id="2" /> onycha,<n id="3" /> galbanum,<n id="4" /> and pure frankincense<n id="5" /> of equal amounts<n id="6" />

and said to Aaron, &#8220;Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the <sc>Lordsc>.

&#8220;Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the <sc>Lordsc>.