<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

But this one from Israel&#8217;s royal family<n id="1" /> rebelled against the king of Babylon<n id="2" /> by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?p>

(though the father did not do any of them).<n id="1" /> He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains,<n id="2" /> defiles his neighbor&#8217;s wife,

But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, &#8216;These are the people of the <sc>Lordsc>, yet they have departed from his land.&#8217;

Then he said to me, &#8220;These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people.&#8221;p>

He asked them to pray for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery so that he<n id="1" /> and his friends would not be destroyed along with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has granted you sovereignty, power, strength, and honor.

However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book.<n id="1" /> (There is no one who strengthens me against these princes,<n id="2" /> except Michael your<n id="3" /> prince.

<t /><p class="poetry">Who is wise?p> <p class="poetry">Let him discern<n id="1" /> these things!p> <p class="poetry">Who is discerning?p> <p class="poetry">Let him understand them!p> <p class="poetry">For the ways of the <sc>Lordsc> are right;p> <p class="poetry">the godly walk in them,p> <p class="bodytext">but in them the rebellious stumble.p>

<p class="poetry">Does the family<n id="1" /> of Jacob say,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s patience<n id="3" /> can&#8217;t be exhausted &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">he would never do such things&#8217;?<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">To be sure, my commands bring a rewardp> <p class="poetry">for those who obey them,<n id="5" />p>

Then Haggai asked, &#8220;If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body<n id="1" /> comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?&#8221; The priests answered, &#8220;It will be unclean.&#8221;p>

He replied, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you know what these are?&#8221; So I responded, &#8220;No, sir.&#8221;

The messenger replied, &#8220;These are the four spirits<n id="1" /> of heaven that have been presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.

These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.<n id="1" />

When Esau<n id="1" /> looked up<n id="2" /> and saw the women and the children, he asked, &#8220;Who are these people with you?&#8221; Jacob<n id="3" /> replied, &#8220;The children whom God has graciously given<n id="4" /> your servant.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">This is the account of Jacob.p> <p class="bodytext">Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son,<n id="1" /> was taking care of<n id="2" /> the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster<n id="3" /> working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father&#8217;s wives.<n id="4" /> Joseph brought back a bad report about them<n id="5" /> to their father.p>

While they were bringing her out, she sent word<n id="1" /> to her father-in-law: &#8220;I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Then she said, &#8220;Identify<n id="3" /> the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.&#8221;

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="2" /> to Moses, &#8220;Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display<n id="3" /> these signs of mine before him,<n id="4" />

All these your servants will come down to me and bow down<n id="1" /> to me, saying, &#8216;Go, you and all the people who follow<n id="2" /> you,&#8217; and after that I will go out.&#8221; Then Moses<n id="3" /> went out from Pharaoh in great anger.p>