When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.p>

<p class="poetry">Turn your eyes away from me &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they overwhelm<n id="1" /> me!p> <p class="poetry">Your hair is like a flock of goatsp> <p class="poetry">descending from Mount Gilead.p>

Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I&#8217;ll prepare<n id="1" /> them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;ll send you a young goat from the flock.&#8221; She asked, &#8220;Will you give me a pledge until you send it?&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Judah had his friend Hirah<n id="1" /> the Adullamite take a young goat to get back from the woman the items he had given in pledge,<n id="2" /> but Hirah<n id="3" /> could not find her.

<p class="bodytext">Everyone who had<n id="1" /> blue, purple, or<n id="2" /> scarlet yarn, fine linen, goats&#8217; hair, ram skins dyed red, or fine leather<n id="3" /> brought them.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering<n id="1" /> &#8211; from the sheep or the goats &#8211; he must present a flawless male,

or his sin that he committed<n id="1" /> is made known to him,<n id="2" /> he must bring a flawless male goat as his offering.<n id="3" />

or his sin that he committed<n id="1" /> is made known to him,<n id="2" /> he must bring a flawless female goat<n id="3" /> as his offering for the sin<n id="4" /> that he committed.

Then tell the Israelites: &#8216;Take a male goat<n id="1" /> for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless,<n id="2" /> for a burnt offering,

&#8220;Blood guilt<n id="1" /> will be accounted to any man<n id="2" /> from the house of Israel<n id="3" /> who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,<n id="4" />

Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the <sc>Lordsc>. The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.<n id="1" />

So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat<n id="1" /> and sent them to Saul with<n id="2" /> his son David.

<p class="bodytext">Then Michal took a household idol<n id="1" /> and put it on the bed. She put a quilt<n id="2" /> made of goat&#8217;s hair over its head<n id="3" /> and then covered the idol with a garment.

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy;<n id="1" /> he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks<n id="1" /> of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Lover to His Beloved:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Oh,<n id="2" /> you are beautiful, my darling!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Oh, you are beautiful!p> <p class="poetry">Your eyes behind your veil are like doves.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Your hair is like a flock of female goatsp> <p class="poetry">descending<n id="5" /> from Mount Gilead.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;On the second day, you will offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering. They will purify the altar just as they purified it with the bull.

And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.