Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.p>

If a resident foreigner is living<n id="1" /> with you &#8211; or whoever is among you<n id="2" /> in future generations<n id="3" /> &#8211; and prepares an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the <sc>Lordsc>, he must do it the same way you are to do it.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">God is not a man, that he should lie,p> <p class="poetry">nor a human being,<n id="1" /> that he should change his mind.p> <p class="poetry">Has he said, and will he not do it?p> <p class="poetry">Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?<n id="2" />p>

And now, I am about to go<n id="1" /> back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

In this manner you must offer daily throughout the seven days the food of the sacrifice made by fire as a sweet aroma to the <sc>Lordsc>. It is to be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

&#8216;Cursed is the one<n id="1" /> who makes a carved or metal image &#8211; something abhorrent<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>, the work of the craftsman<n id="3" /> &#8211; and sets it up in a secret place.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;<n id="4" />

Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, &#8220;Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother&#8217;s home!<n id="1" /> May the <sc>Lordsc> show<n id="2" /> you<n id="3" /> the same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands<n id="4" /> and to me!<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">Wherever you die, I will die &#8211; and there I will be buried.p> <p class="poetry">May the <sc>Lordsc> punish me severely if I do not keep my promise!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Only death will be able to separate me from you!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Peninnah<n id="1" /> would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah<n id="2" /> went up to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house, Peninnah<n id="3" /> would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.

Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a secure dynasty<n id="1" /> and he will serve my chosen one for all time.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> will do what he pleases.&#8221;<n id="2" />

God will severely punish David,<n id="1" /> if I leave alive until morning even one male<n id="2" /> from all those who belong to him!&#8221;p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will do for my lord everything that he promised you,<n id="1" /> and he will make<n id="2" /> you a leader over Israel.

God will severely judge Abner<n id="1" /> if I do not do for David exactly what the <sc>Lordsc> has promised him,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">But she said to him, &#8220;No, my brother! Don&#8217;t humiliate me! This just isn&#8217;t done in Israel! Don&#8217;t do this foolish thing!

<p class="bodytext">King Solomon then swore an oath by the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;May God judge me severely,<n id="1" /> if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!<n id="2" />

Shimei said to the king, &#8220;My master the king&#8217;s proposal is acceptable.<n id="1" /> Your servant will do as you say.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.<n id="3" />p>

Then he said, &#8220;May God judge me severely<n id="1" /> if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">From Issachar there were 200 leaders and all their relatives at their command &#8211; they understood the times and knew what Israel should do.<n id="1" />p>

Therefore let us enact<n id="1" /> a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in keeping with your counsel, my lord,<n id="2" /> and that of those who respect<n id="3" /> the commandments of our God. And let it be done according to the law.