<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="2" /> to Moses: &#8220;Thus you will tell the Israelites: &#8216;You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are to say to them: &#8216;Any man<n id="1" /> from the house of Israel or<n id="2" /> from the foreigners who reside<n id="3" /> in their<n id="4" /> midst, who offers<n id="5" /> a burnt offering or a sacrifice

For I will honor you greatly,<n id="1" /> and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.&#8217;&#8221;p>

the woman would go to the king in the following way: Whatever she asked for would be provided for her to take with her from the harem to the royal palace.

<p class="poetry">If you say, &#8220;But we did not know about this,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">does not the one who evaluates<n id="1" /> hearts consider?p> <p class="poetry">Does not the one who guards your life know?p> <p class="poetry">Will he not repay each person according to his deeds?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not say, &#8220;Why were the old days better than these days?&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for it is not wise to ask that.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will desecrate your silver-plated idols<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and your gold-plated images.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag,p> <p class="poetry">saying to them, &#8220;Get out!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">I announced them to you beforehand;p> <p class="poetry">before they happened, I predicted them for you,p> <p class="poetry">so you could never say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;My image did these things,p> <p class="poetry">my idol, my cast image, decreed them.&#8217;p>

The <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Do not say, &#8216;I am too young.&#8217; But go<n id="1" /> to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But<n id="1" /> tell the people of Jerusalem<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;I will give you a choice between two courses of action. One will result in life; the other will result in death.<n id="3" />

But God said to Abraham, &#8220;Do not be upset<n id="1" /> about the boy or your slave wife. Do<n id="2" /> all that Sarah is telling<n id="3" /> you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.<n id="4" />

God also said to Moses, &#8220;You must say this to the Israelites, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> &#8211; the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob &#8211; has sent me to you. This is my name<n id="2" /> forever, and this is my memorial from generation to generation.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;You are to say to the Israelites, &#8216;Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in Israel<n id="1" /> who gives any of his children<n id="2" /> to Molech<n id="3" /> must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones.<n id="4" />

Did I conceive this entire people?<n id="1" /> Did I give birth to<n id="2" /> them, that you should say to me, &#8216;Carry them in your arms, as a foster father<n id="3" /> bears a nursing child,&#8217; to the land which you swore to their fathers?

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;And say to the people, &#8216;Sanctify yourselves<n id="1" /> for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>, saying, &#8220;Who will give us meat to eat,<n id="3" /> for life<n id="4" /> was good for us in Egypt?&#8221; Therefore the <sc>Lordsc> will give you meat, and you will eat.

Do not think to yourself after the <sc>Lordsc> your God has driven them out before you, &#8220;Because of my own righteousness the <sc>Lordsc> has brought me here to possess this land.&#8221; It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

Zebul said to him, &#8220;Where now are your bragging words,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?&#8217; Are these not the men<n id="2" /> you insulted?<n id="3" /> Go out now and fight them!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">She said to him, &#8220;How can you say, &#8216;I love you,&#8217; when you will not share your secret with me?<n id="1" /> Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then Abner called out to Joab, &#8220;Must the sword devour forever? Don&#8217;t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;So now, say this to my servant David: &#8216;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> of hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd<n id="1" /> to make you leader of my people Israel.