<t /><p class="poetry">Do not let anyone accuse or contend against anyone else:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for my case is against you priests!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I thought<n id="1" /> I had been banished from your sight,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that I would never again<n id="3" /> see your holy temple!<n id="4" />p>

This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me<n id="1" /> from their earliest history until now<n id="2" /> and because they<n id="3" /> have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done.<n id="4" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">Finally Abraham<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.&#8221;p>

What&#8217;s more,<n id="1" /> she is indeed my sister, my father&#8217;s daughter, but not my mother&#8217;s daughter. She became my wife.

Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand<n id="1" /> that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the <sc>Lordsc> your God that he would only<n id="1" /> take this death<n id="2" /> away from me.&#8221;

&#8220;The<n id="1" /> tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.<n id="2" /> It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves<n id="3" /> and present a gift to the <sc>Lordsc>.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Surely no man may consecrate a firstborn that already belongs to the <sc>Lordsc> as a firstborn among the animals; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />

&#8220;Only the tribe of Levi<n id="1" /> you must not number<n id="2" /> or count<n id="3" /> with<n id="4" /> the other Israelites.

&#8216;Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

This is what<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has commanded for Zelophehad&#8217;s daughters: &#8216;Let them marry<n id="2" /> whomever they think best,<n id="3" /> only they must marry within the family of their father&#8217;s tribe.

Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

<p class="bodytext">When Ehud had left, Eglon&#8217;s<n id="1" /> servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said, &#8220;He must be relieving himself<n id="2" /> in the well-ventilated inner room.&#8221;<n id="3" />

But the Israelites said to the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit,<n id="1" /> but deliver us today!&#8221;<n id="2" />

So now do as they say.<n id="1" /> But seriously warn<n id="2" /> them and make them aware of the policies of the king who will rule over them.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

However, fear the <sc>Lordsc> and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!

<p class="bodytext">This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought,<n id="1" /> &#8220;They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?&#8221;

Solomon built the terrace as soon as Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter moved up from the city of David<n id="1" /> to the palace Solomon built for her.<n id="2" />p>

When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, &#8220;He must be the king of Israel.&#8221; So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.