<p class="bodytext">The matter seemed appropriate to the king and the officials. So the king acted on the advice of Memucan.

<p class="poetry">A bribe works like<n id="1" /> a charm<n id="2" /> for the one who offers it;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">in whatever he does<n id="4" /> he succeeds.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Since you are precious and special in my sight,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and I love you,p> <p class="poetry">I will hand over people in place of you,p> <p class="poetry">nations in place of your life.p>

<p class="bodytext">(Now the <sc>Lordsc> granted the people favor with<n id="1" /> the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh&#8217;s servants and by the Egyptian people.)<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The Israelites again did evil in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight.<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel<n id="2" /> because they had done evil in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight.

<p class="bodytext">On every mission on which Saul sent him, David achieved success. So Saul appointed him over the men of war. This pleased not only all the army, but also Saul&#8217;s servants.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Esau<n id="1" /> then asked, &#8220;What did you intend<n id="2" /> by sending all these herds to meet me?&#8221;<n id="3" /> Jacob<n id="4" /> replied, &#8220;To find favor in your sight, my lord.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So Esau said, &#8220;Let me leave some of my men with you.&#8221;<n id="1" /> &#8220;Why do that?&#8221; Jacob replied.<n id="2" /> &#8220;My lord has already been kind enough to me.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But the <sc>Lordsc> was with Joseph and showed him kindness.<n id="1" /> He granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Now it was reported<n id="1" /> in the household of Pharaoh, &#8220;Joseph&#8217;s brothers have arrived.&#8221; It pleased<n id="2" /> Pharaoh and his servants.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I will grant this people favor with<n id="1" /> the Egyptians, so that when<n id="2" /> you depart you will not leave empty-handed.

and they said to them, &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> look on you and judge,<n id="1" /> because you have made us stink<n id="2" /> in the opinion of<n id="3" /> Pharaoh and his servants,<n id="4" /> so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

If she does not please<n id="1" /> her master, who has designated her<n id="2" /> for himself, then he must let her be redeemed.<n id="3" /> He has no right<n id="4" /> to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully<n id="5" /> with her.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know<n id="1" /> you by name.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God<n id="1" /> to let you curse them for me from there.&#8221;<n id="2" />

So the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> was finished.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time,<n id="1" /> if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind<n id="2" /> and do other evil things before the <sc>Lordsc> your God that enrage him,<n id="3" />

Do whatever is proper<n id="1" /> and good before the <sc>Lordsc> so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he<n id="2" /> promised your ancestors,

That day the <sc>Lordsc> brought honor to Joshua before all Israel. They respected<n id="1" /> him all his life,<n id="2" /> just as they had respected<n id="3" /> Moses.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The Israelites did evil in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight.<n id="1" /> They forgot the <sc>Lordsc> their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.<n id="2" />