In the morning, when Nabal was sober,<n id="1" /> his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So David and his men got up early in the morning to return<n id="1" /> to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.p>

<p class="bodytext">Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land.<n id="1" />

When they got up early the next morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites, who were some distance away, the water looked red like blood.

<p class="poetry">May I hear about your loyal love in the morning,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for I trust in you.p> <p class="poetry">Show me the way I should go,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because I long for you.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s messenger<n id="1" /> went out and killed 185,000 troops<n id="2" /> in the Assyrian camp. When they<n id="3" /> got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">May that man be like the cities<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that the <sc>Lordsc> destroyed without showing any mercy.p> <p class="poetry">May he hear a cry of distress in the morningp> <p class="poetry">and a battle cry at noon.p>

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning Abraham took<n id="1" /> some food<n id="2" /> and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child,<n id="3" /> and sent her away. So she went wandering<n id="4" /> aimlessly through the wilderness<n id="5" /> of Beer Sheba.

<p class="bodytext">Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey.<n id="1" /> He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out<n id="2" /> for the place God had spoken to him about.p>

<p class="bodytext">In the morning he<n id="1" /> was troubled, so he called for<n id="2" /> all the diviner-priests<n id="3" /> of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams,<n id="4" /> but no one could interpret<n id="5" /> them for him.<n id="6" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> said to Moses, &#8220;Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him, &#8216;Thus says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;Release my people that they may serve me!

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="2" /> to Moses, &#8220;Get up early in the morning, stand<n id="3" /> before Pharaoh, and tell him, &#8216;Thus says the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of the Hebrews: &#8220;Release my people so that they may serve me!

<p class="bodytext">Moses said, &#8220;You will know this<n id="1" /> when the <sc>Lordsc> gives you<n id="2" /> meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the <sc>Lordsc> has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we?<n id="3" /> Your murmurings are not against us,<n id="4" /> but against the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

and Moses wrote down all the words of the <sc>Lordsc>. Early in the morning he built<n id="1" /> an altar at the foot<n id="2" /> of the mountain and arranged<n id="3" /> twelve standing stones<n id="4" /> &#8211; according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

So Moses<n id="1" /> cut out two tablets of stone like the first;<n id="2" /> early in the morning he went up<n id="3" /> to Mount Sinai, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.p>

&#8220;This is the offering of Aaron and his sons which they must present to the <sc>Lordsc> on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah<n id="1" /> of choice wheat flour<n id="2" /> as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

If a man presents a peace offering sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> for a special votive offering<n id="1" /> or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable;<n id="2" /> it must have no flaw.<n id="3" />p>

Then you may spend the money however you wish for cattle, sheep, wine, beer, or whatever you desire. You and your household may eat there in the presence of the <sc>Lordsc> your God and enjoy it.

In the morning you must approach in tribal order.<n id="1" /> The tribe the <sc>Lordsc> selects<n id="2" /> must approach by clans. The clan the <sc>Lordsc> selects must approach by families.<n id="3" /> The family the <sc>Lordsc> selects must approach man by man.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw<n id="1" /> the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.