He said<n id="1" /> to his daughters, &#8220;So where is he?<n id="2" /> Why in the world<n id="3" /> did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat<n id="4" /> a meal<n id="5" /> with us.&#8221;p>

And<n id="1" /> on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers<n id="2" /> per person;<n id="3" /> and all the leaders<n id="4" /> of the community<n id="5" /> came and told<n id="6" /> Moses.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane<n id="1" /> the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s gifts,<n id="2" /> the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.<n id="3" />

You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the <sc>Lordsc> who sanctifies you all,<n id="1" /> am holy.

&#8220;Tell Aaron, &#8216;No man from your descendants throughout their generations<n id="1" /> who has a physical flaw<n id="2" /> is to approach to present the food of his God.

Even from a foreigner<n id="1" /> you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed;<n id="2" /> they will not be acceptable for your benefit.&#8217;&#8221;p>

From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of<n id="1" /> bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast,<n id="2" /> as first fruits to the <sc>Lordsc>.

and the priest is to wave them &#8211; the two lambs<n id="1" /> &#8211; along with the bread of the first fruits, as a wave offering before the <sc>Lordsc>; they will be holy to the <sc>Lordsc> for the priest.p>

When I break off your supply of bread,<n id="1" /> ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight,<n id="2" /> and you will eat and not be satisfied.p>

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, &#8220;Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we<n id="1" /> detest this worthless<n id="2" /> food.&#8221;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.

a land where you may eat food<n id="1" /> in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron<n id="2" /> and from whose hills you can mine copper.

You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer &#8211; all so that you might know that I<n id="1" /> am the <sc>Lordsc> your God!

They had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn-out clothes. All their bread<n id="1" /> was dry and hard.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">God chose new leaders,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">then fighters appeared in the city gates;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">among forty military units<n id="4" /> in Israel.p>

This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah&#8217;s house.<n id="1" />

Micah said to him, &#8220;Where do you come from?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah. I am looking for a new place to live.&#8221;<n id="1" />

However, she<n id="1" /> got angry at him<n id="2" /> and went home<n id="3" /> to her father&#8217;s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave.<n id="1" /> But the girl&#8217;s father said to his son-in-law, &#8220;Have a bite to eat for some energy,<n id="2" /> then you can go.&#8221;

So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law,<n id="1" /> because while she was living in Moab<n id="2" /> she had heard that the <sc>Lordsc> had shown concern<n id="3" /> for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops.<n id="4" />p>