But later<n id="1" /> they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah after Jehoiakim had burned the scroll containing what Jeremiah had spoken and Baruch had written down.<n id="1" />

But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho,<n id="1" /> and his entire army deserted him.

I did this<n id="1" /> because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me,<n id="1" /> you must bear now the punishment<n id="2" /> for your obscene conduct and prostitution.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for<n id="1" /> their sin.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, O king, while you were in your bed your thoughts turned to future things.<n id="1" /> The revealer of mysteries has made known to you what will take place.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">In the third year<n id="2" /> of King Belshazzar&#8217;s reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me previously.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">For their mother has committed adultery;p> <p class="poetry">she who conceived them has acted shamefully.p> <p class="poetry">For she said, &#8220;I will seek out<n id="1" /> my lovers;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they are the ones who give me my bread and my water,p> <p class="poetry">my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The Nephilim<n id="1" /> were on the earth in those days (and also after this)<n id="2" /> when the sons of God were having sexual relations with<n id="3" /> the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children.<n id="4" /> They were the mighty heroes<n id="5" /> of old, the famous men.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="bodytext">After Lot had departed, the <sc>Lordsc> said to Abram,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Look<n id="2" /> from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

<p class="bodytext">After Abram<n id="1" /> returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram<n id="2" /> in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King&#8217;s Valley).<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">The servant asked him, &#8220;What if the woman is not willing to come back with me<n id="1" /> to this land? Must I then<n id="2" /> take your son back to the land from which you came?&#8221;p>

Isaac reopened<n id="1" /> the wells that had been dug<n id="2" /> back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up<n id="3" /> after Abraham died. Isaac<n id="4" /> gave these wells<n id="5" /> the same names his father had given them.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="bodytext">He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, &#8220;You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.<n id="1" />

They had not gone very far from the city<n id="1" /> when Joseph said<n id="2" /> to the servant who was over his household, &#8220;Pursue the men at once!<n id="3" /> When you overtake<n id="4" /> them, say to them, &#8216;Why have you repaid good with evil?

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you,<n id="2" /> he will drive you out completely<n id="3" /> from this place.

The priest must then examine it after the infection has been washed out, and if<n id="1" /> the infection has not changed its appearance<n id="2" /> even though the infection has not spread, it is unclean. You must burn it up in the fire. It is a fungus, whether on the back side or front side of the article.<n id="3" />

But if the priest has examined it and<n id="1" /> the infection has faded after it has been washed, he is to tear it out of<n id="2" /> the garment or the leather or the warp or the woof.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If, however, the priest enters<n id="1" /> and examines it, and the<n id="2" /> infection has not spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest is to pronounce the house clean because the infection has been healed.