You must give to the Lord some of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering in your future generations.

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. ¹  Hazael attacked their eastern border. ² 

Malkijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-Moab worked on another section and the Tower of the Fire Pots.

After them the men of Tekoa worked on another section, from opposite the great protruding tower to the wall of Ophel.

When you see a thief, you join him; ¹  you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives. ² 

They have committed treason ¹  against the Lord, because they bore illegitimate children. Soon ²  the new moon festival will devour them and their fields.

So Philip started speaking, ¹  and beginning with this scripture ²  proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.

And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? ¹  Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever?

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share ¹  in the saints’ ²  inheritance in the light.

Of all the most holy offerings reserved ¹  from the fire this will be yours: Every offering of theirs, whether from every grain offering or from every purification offering or from every reparation offering which they bring to me, will be most holy for you and for your sons.

The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. ¹  So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph. ² 

But leave its taproot ¹  in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it ²  surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with ³  the animals in the grass of the land.

The priest who offers it for sin is to eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Meeting Tent.

He then put all of them on the palms ¹  of Aaron and his sons, who waved ²  them as a wave offering before the Lord. ³ 

Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal. ¹  From there he saw the extent of the nation.

your southern border ¹  will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea,

you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money, ¹  and travel to the place the Lord your God chooses for himself.

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. ¹ 

Joshua said to the family ¹  of Joseph – to both Ephraim and Manasseh: “You have many people and great military strength. You will not have just one tribal allotment.

The men journeyed ¹  through the land and mapped it and its cities out into seven regions on a scroll. Then they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.