<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, &#8220;You have brought ruin<n id="1" /> on me by making me a foul odor<n id="2" /> among the inhabitants of the land &#8211; among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I<n id="3" /> am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!&#8221;

If you have no desire<n id="1" /> to worship<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, choose today whom you will worship,<n id="3" /> whether it be the gods whom your ancestors<n id="4" /> worshiped<n id="5" /> beyond the Euphrates,<n id="6" /> or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family<n id="7" /> will worship<n id="8" /> the <sc>Lordsc>!&#8221;p>