Then the people<n id="1" /> of Judah and the people of Israel will be gathered together. They will appoint for themselves one leader,<n id="2" /> and will flourish in the land.<n id="3" /> Certainly,<n id="4" /> the day of Jezreel will be great!

<t /><p class="poetry">Blow the trumpet<n id="1" /> in Zion;p> <p class="poetry">sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain!p> <p class="poetry">Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear,p> <p class="poetry">for the day of the <sc>Lordsc> is about to come.p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="2" /> it is near!<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;For the day of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> is approaching<n id="2" /> for all the nations!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Just as you have done, so it will be done to you.p> <p class="poetry">You will get exactly what your deeds deserve.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">In that day people<n id="1" /> will come to you<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">from Assyria as far as<n id="3" /> Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">from Egypt as far as the Euphrates River,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">from the seacoasts<n id="5" /> and the mountains.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Be silent before the Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s day of judgment<n id="2" /> is almost here.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has prepared a sacrificial meal;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">he has ritually purified<n id="5" /> his guests.p>

<p class="bodytext">Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner&#8217;s fire,<n id="1" /> like a launderer&#8217;s soap.

Look, I will send you Elijah<n id="1" /> the prophet before the great and terrible day of the <sc>Lordsc> arrives.

For in seven days<n id="1" /> I will cause it to rain<n id="2" /> on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">In the six hundredth year of Noah&#8217;s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month &#8211; on that day all the fountains of the great deep<n id="1" /> burst open and the floodgates of the heavens<n id="2" /> were opened.

Stay there<n id="1" /> until your brother&#8217;s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I&#8217;ll send someone to bring you back from there.<n id="2" /> Why should I lose both of you in one day?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">On the third day it was Pharaoh&#8217;s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He &#8220;lifted up&#8221;<n id="1" /> the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

For seven days<n id="1" /> you must eat<n id="2" /> bread made without yeast.<n id="3" /> Surely<n id="4" /> on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast<n id="5" /> from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off<n id="6" /> from Israel.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="2" /> they journeyed from Elim, the entire company<n id="3" /> of Israelites came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus<n id="4" /> from the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I am going to rain<n id="1" /> bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out<n id="2" /> and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them.<n id="3" /> Will they will walk in my law<n id="4" /> or not?

For in six days the <sc>Lordsc> made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the <sc>Lordsc> blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.p>

So he was there with the <sc>Lordsc> forty days and forty nights;<n id="1" /> he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.<n id="2" />p>

Then she will remain<n id="1" /> thirty-three days in blood purity.<n id="2" /> She must not touch anything holy and she must not enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are fulfilled.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;On<n id="1" /> the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate a pilgrim festival of the <sc>Lordsc> for seven days. On the first day is a complete rest and on the eighth day is complete rest.

And they observed the Passover<n id="1" /> on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.p>

And the people stayed up<n id="1" /> all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers,<n id="2" /> and they spread them out<n id="3" /> for themselves all around the camp.