I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them<n id="1" /> firmly in the land.&#8217;p>

Have you not copied their behavior<n id="1" /> and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time<n id="2" /> you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Yet even now,&#8221; the <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;return to me with all your heart &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">with fasting, weeping, and mourning.p> <p class="poetry">Tear your hearts,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">not just your garments!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Shout for joy, Daughter Zion!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Shout out, Israel!p> <p class="poetry">Be happy and boast with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!p>

I asked, &#8220;What is it?&#8221; And he replied, &#8220;It is a basket for measuring grain<n id="1" /> that is moving away from here.&#8221; Moreover, he said, &#8220;This is their &#8216;eye&#8217;<n id="2" /> throughout all the earth.&#8221;

When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature)<n id="1" /> and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the <sc>Lordsc>, that person will be cut off from his people.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

And he said to the community, &#8220;Move away from the tents of these wicked<n id="1" /> men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because<n id="2" /> of all their sins.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now, Israel, what does the <sc>Lordsc> your God require of you except to revere him,<n id="1" /> to obey all his commandments,<n id="2" /> to love him, to serve him<n id="3" /> with all your mind and being,<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the <sc>Lordsc> your God blesses you<n id="1" /> in all your villages.<n id="2" /> Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant gave you. Love<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God, follow all his instructions,<n id="2" /> obey<n id="3" /> his commands, be loyal to him,<n id="4" /> and serve him with all your heart and being!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Was it just today that I began to inquire of God on his behalf? Far be it from me! The king should not accuse<n id="1" /> his servant or any of my father&#8217;s house. For your servant is not aware of all this &#8211; not in whole or in part!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say<n id="1" /> to any of the leaders<n id="2" /> whom I appointed to care for<n id="3" /> my people Israel, &#8220;Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?&#8221;&#8217;p>

He placed garrisons throughout Edom,<n id="1" /> and all the Edomites became David&#8217;s subjects. The <sc>Lordsc> protected David wherever he campaigned.

His royal court was so large because<n id="1" /> he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River from Tiphsah<n id="2" /> to Gaza; he was at peace with all his neighbors.<n id="3" />

Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say<n id="1" /> to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,<n id="2" /> &#8216;Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?&#8217;&#8221;&#8217;p>

When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember<n id="1" /> the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.&#8221; p>

<p class="poetry">He will be a wild donkey<n id="1" /> of a man.p> <p class="poetry">He will be hostile to everyone,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and everyone will be hostile to him.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He will live away from<n id="4" /> his brothers.&#8221;p>

<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.

Abraham said to his servant, the senior one<n id="1" /> in his household who was in charge of everything he had, &#8220;Put your hand under my thigh<n id="2" />

When the stronger females were in heat,<n id="1" /> Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.