When<n id="1" /> the dove returned to him in the evening, there was<n id="2" /> a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

One of them<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;I will surely return<n id="2" /> to you when the season comes round again,<n id="3" /> and your wife Sarah will have a son!&#8221;<n id="4" /> (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, &#8220;God is with you<n id="1" /> in all that you do.

Then Jacob<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Since it is still the middle of the day,<n id="2" /> it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Once<n id="1" /> during breeding season I saw<n id="2" /> in a dream that the male goats mating with<n id="3" /> the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time Judah left<n id="1" /> his brothers and stayed<n id="2" /> with an Adullamite man<n id="3" /> named Hirah.p>

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down<n id="1" /> about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred<n id="2" /> in Egypt from the day it was founded<n id="3" /> until now.

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring<n id="1" /> to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.p>

<p class="poetry">For there is no spell against<n id="1" /> Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">nor is there any divination against Israel.p> <p class="poetry">At this time<n id="2" /> it must be said<n id="3" /> of Jacobp> <p class="poetry">and of Israel, &#8216;Look at<n id="4" /> what God has done!&#8217;p>

I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they<n id="1" /> should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens<n id="2" /> and judge fairly,<n id="3" /> whether between one citizen and another<n id="4" /> or a citizen and a resident foreigner.<n id="5" />

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them<n id="1" /> under divine judgment,<n id="2" /> including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer<n id="1" /> by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.<n id="2" />

Moreover, at that same time the <sc>Lordsc> commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that same time the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">I will get revenge and pay them backp> <p class="poetry">at the time their foot slips;p> <p class="poetry">for the day of their disaster is near,p> <p class="poetry">and the impending judgment<n id="1" /> is rushing upon them!&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time the <sc>Lordsc> told Joshua, &#8220;Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.&#8221;<n id="1" />

That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites<n id="1" /> &#8211; all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

Now his father and mother did not realize this was the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s doing,<n id="1" /> because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines<n id="2" /> (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).p>

The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites<n id="1" /> gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.<n id="2" />p>