Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the <sc>Lordsc> will choose.<n id="1" />

you may convert the tithe into money, secure the money,<n id="1" /> and travel to the place the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses for himself.

You must sacrifice the Passover animal<n id="1" /> (from the flock or the herd) to the <sc>Lordsc> your God in the place where he<n id="2" /> chooses to locate his name.

You must then do as they have determined at that place the <sc>Lordsc> chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.

Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses.<n id="1" />

The <sc>Lordsc> said to Joshua, &#8220;Today I have taken away<n id="1" /> the disgrace<n id="2" /> of Egypt from you.&#8221; So that place is called Gilgal<n id="3" /> even to this day.p>

When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked.<n id="1" /> They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)<n id="1" />p>

Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, &#8220;Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.&#8221;<n id="1" />

He said to her, &#8220;Get up, let&#8217;s leave!&#8221; But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The Israelite army<n id="1" /> took heart<n id="2" /> and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before.

Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.p> <p class="bodytext">The Israelites retreated before<n id="1" /> Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now as she and her two daughters-in-law began to leave the place where she had been living to return to the land of Judah,<n id="1" />

When he gets ready to go to sleep,<n id="1" /> take careful notice of the place where he lies down. Then go, uncover his legs,<n id="2" /> and lie down<n id="3" /> beside him.<n id="4" /> He will tell<n id="5" /> you what you should do.&#8221;

When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day,<n id="1" /> Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

the Philistines called the priests and the omen readers, saying, &#8220;What should we do with the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>? Advise us as to how we should send it back to its place.&#8221;p>

Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel,<n id="1" /> Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

<p class="bodytext">Then Samuel brought<n id="1" /> Saul and his servant into the room and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited. There were about thirty people present.