<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: On that day when my people Israel are living securely, you will take notice<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say: &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal!

Say to the rebellious,<n id="1" /> to the house of Israel, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Enough of all your abominable practices, O house of Israel!

Therefore say to the people:<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="2" /> says, &#8220;Turn<n id="3" /> to me,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all, &#8220;and I will turn to you,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.

Then say to him, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says, &#8220;Look &#8211; here is the man whose name is Branch,<n id="1" /> who will sprout up from his place and build the temple of the <sc>Lordsc>.

They had not gone very far from the city<n id="1" /> when Joseph said<n id="2" /> to the servant who was over his household, &#8220;Pursue the men at once!<n id="3" /> When you overtake<n id="4" /> them, say to them, &#8216;Why have you repaid good with evil?

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Go and bring together<n id="1" /> the elders of Israel and tell them, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your fathers,<n id="2" /> appeared<n id="3" /> to me &#8211; the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob &#8211; saying, &#8220;I have attended carefully<n id="4" /> to you and to what has been done<n id="5" /> to you in Egypt,

&#8220;When Pharaoh says to you, &#8216;Do<n id="1" /> a miracle,&#8217; and you say to Aaron, &#8216;Take your staff and throw it down<n id="2" /> before Pharaoh,&#8217; it will become<n id="3" /> a snake.&#8221;

<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!

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;When<n id="1" /> someone<n id="2" /> among you presents an offering<n id="3" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="4" /> you<n id="5" /> must present your offering from the domesticated animals, either from the herd or from the flock.<n id="6" />p>

&#8220;Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;When any man<n id="1" /> from the house of Israel or from the foreigners in Israel<n id="2" /> presents his offering for any of the votive or freewill offerings which they present to the <sc>Lordsc> as a burnt offering,

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest,<n id="1" /> then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest<n id="2" /> to the priest,

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and tell them to make<n id="1" /> tassels<n id="2" /> for themselves on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and put a blue thread<n id="3" /> on the tassel of the corners.

&#8220;You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, &#8216;When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up<n id="1" /> from it as a raised offering to the <sc>Lordsc> a tenth of the tithe.

&#8220;Give these instructions<n id="1" /> to the Israelites, and tell them: &#8216;When you enter Canaan, the land that has been assigned to you as an inheritance,<n id="2" /> the land of Canaan with its borders,

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, &#8220;I want to eat meat just as I please,&#8221;<n id="1" /> you may do so as you wish.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When you come to the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, &#8220;I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,&#8221;

You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, &#8220;I declare today to the <sc>Lordsc> your<n id="1" /> God that I have come into the land that the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> promised<n id="3" /> to our ancestors<n id="4" /> to give us.&#8221;

Then you must affirm before the <sc>Lord your Godsc>, &#8220;A wandering<n id="1" /> Aramean<n id="2" /> was my ancestor,<n id="3" /> and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number,<n id="4" /> but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.