I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips,<n id="1" /> nor did I anoint myself with oil<n id="2" /> until the end of those three weeks.p>

He will pitch his royal tents between the seas<n id="1" /> toward the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, with no one to help him.p>

Then I told her, &#8220;You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or have sexual intercourse with<n id="1" /> another man, and I also will wait for you.&#8221;

For the Israelites<n id="1" /> must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> confirms this oath by his own holy character:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Certainly the time is approaching<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">when you will be carried away<n id="3" /> in baskets,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">every last one of you<n id="5" /> in fishermen&#8217;s pots.<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Go to Bethel<n id="1" /> and rebel!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">At Gilgal<n id="3" /> rebel some more!p> <p class="poetry">Bring your sacrifices in<n id="4" /> the morning,p> <p class="poetry">your tithes on<n id="5" /> the third day!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Be sure of this,<n id="1" /> the time is<n id="2" /> coming,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;when the plowman will catch up to the reaper<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the one who stomps the grapes<n id="4" /> will overtake<n id="5" /> the planter.<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">Juice will run down the slopes,<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">it will flow down all the hillsides.<n id="8" />p>

<t /><v id="(2:1)" /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> sent<n id="2" /> a huge<n id="3" /> fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the <sc>Lordsc> had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city<n id="1" /> &#8211; it required three days to walk through it!)<n id="2" />

Moreover, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says, &#8216;Old men and women will once more live in the plazas of Jerusalem, each one leaning on a cane because of advanced age.

Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old<n id="1" /> must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you<n id="1" /> and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh&#8217;s cup in his hand, just as you did before<n id="2" /> when you were cupbearer.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The elders<n id="1" /> will listen<n id="2" /> to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of the Hebrews, has met<n id="3" /> with us. So now, let us go<n id="4" /> three days&#8217; journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice<n id="5" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> our God.&#8217;

And they said, &#8220;The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go a three-day journey<n id="1" /> into the desert so that we may sacrifice<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> our God, so that he does not strike us with plague or the sword.&#8221;<n id="3" />

For seven days<n id="1" /> you must eat<n id="2" /> bread made without yeast.<n id="3" /> Surely<n id="4" /> on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast<n id="5" /> from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off<n id="6" /> from Israel.p>

For in six days the <sc>Lordsc> made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the <sc>Lordsc> blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.p>

You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days<n id="1" /> you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time<n id="2" /> you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before<n id="3" /> me empty-handed.p>

It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Then she will remain<n id="1" /> thirty-three days in blood purity.<n id="2" /> She must not touch anything holy and she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;If<n id="1" /> it is a white bright spot on the skin of his body, but it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,<n id="2" /> and the hair has not turned white, then the priest is to quarantine the person with the infection for seven days.<n id="3" />