It came to the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed against it with raging strength.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">I led them with leather<n id="1" /> cords,p> <p class="poetry">with leather<n id="2" /> ropes;p> <p class="poetry">I lifted the yoke<n id="3" /> from their neck,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and gently fed them.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Return to the <sc>Lordsc> and repent!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Say to him: &#8220;Completely<n id="2" /> forgive our iniquity;p> <p class="poetry">accept<n id="3" /> our penitential prayer,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.<n id="5" />p>

Before he could reply I asked again, &#8220;What are these two extensions<n id="1" /> of the olive trees, which are emptying out the golden oil through the two golden pipes?&#8221;

Then say to him, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says, &#8220;Look &#8211; here is the man whose name is Branch,<n id="1" /> who will sprout up from his place and build the temple of the <sc>Lordsc>.

I am about to discipline your children<n id="1" /> and will spread offal<n id="2" /> on your faces,<n id="3" /> the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.

<p class="bodytext">On the seventh day the child died. But the servants of David were afraid to inform him that the child had died, for they said, &#8220;While the child was still alive he would not listen to us<n id="1" /> when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that the child is dead? He will do himself harm!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When he left there, he met<n id="1" /> Jehonadab, son of Rekab, who had been looking for him.<n id="2" /> Jehu greeted him and asked,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Are you as committed to me as I am to you?&#8221;<n id="4" /> Jehonadab answered, &#8220;I am!&#8221; Jehu replied, &#8220;If so, give me your hand.&#8221;<n id="5" /> So he offered his hand and Jehu<n id="6" /> pulled him up into the chariot.

They replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;A man came up to meet us. He told us, &#8220;Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8220;You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are sending for an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron.<n id="2" /> Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Abram was 99 years old,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> appeared to him and said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I am the sovereign God.<n id="3" /> Walk<n id="4" /> before me<n id="5" /> and be blameless.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">Then in the dream God replied to him, &#8220;Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience.<n id="1" /> That is why I have kept you<n id="2" /> from sinning against me and why<n id="3" /> I did not allow you to touch her.

<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>

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, &#8220;She is really<n id="1" /> your wife! Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister&#8217;?&#8221; Isaac replied, &#8220;Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> appeared to him that night and said, &#8220;I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said,<n id="1" /> she quickly summoned<n id="2" /> her younger son Jacob and told him, &#8220;Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Judah approached him and said, &#8220;My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you.<n id="1" /> Please do not get angry with your servant,<n id="2" /> for you are just like Pharaoh.<n id="3" />

Now go up to my father quickly<n id="1" /> and tell him, &#8216;This is what your son Joseph says: &#8220;God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them,<n id="1" /> and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob&#8217;s spirit revived.

Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father&#8217;s household, &#8220;I will go up and tell Pharaoh,<n id="1" /> &#8216;My brothers and my father&#8217;s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

<p class="bodytext">When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, &#8220;We cannot hide from our<n id="1" /> lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.