&#8220;Son of man, prophesy and say, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Wail, &#8220;Alas, the day is here!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people,<n id="1" /> and I am your God, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

&#8220;Son of man, turn toward<n id="1" /> Mount Seir,<n id="2" /> and prophesy against it.

I will multiply your people<n id="1" /> &#8211; the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.

He said to me, &#8220;Son of man, can these bones live?&#8221; I said to him, &#8220;Sovereign Lord, you know.&#8221;

He said to me, &#8220;Son of man, have you seen this?&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

Then I heard a human voice coming from between the banks of the Ulai. It called out, &#8220;Gabriel,<n id="1" /> enable this person to understand the vision.&#8221;

Instead he will say, &#8216;I am no prophet &#8211; indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.&#8217;<n id="1" />

Can a person rob<n id="1" /> God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say, &#8216;How are we robbing you?&#8217; In tithes and contributions!<n id="2" />

David was told,<n id="1" /> &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.&#8221; So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

The ark of God remained in Obed-Edom&#8217;s house for three months; the <sc>Lordsc> blessed Obed-Edom&#8217;s family and everything that belonged to him.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> &#8216;You and your people are saying<n id="2" /> about this place, &#8220;It lies in ruins. There are no people or animals in it.&#8221; That is true. The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem<n id="3" /> will soon be desolate, uninhabited either by people or by animals. But happy sounds will again be heard in these places.

&#8220;Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply,<n id="1" /> cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

&#8220;Son of man, say to the prince<n id="1" /> of Tyre, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Your heart is proud<n id="2" /> and you said, &#8220;I am a god;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas&#8221; &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">yet you are a man and not a god,p> <p class="poetry">though you think you are godlike.<n id="4" />p>

The length of time Adam lived<n id="1" /> after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had<n id="2" /> other<n id="3" /> sons and daughters.

<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>

Every firstling<n id="1" /> of a donkey you must redeem<n id="2" /> with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, then you must break its neck.<n id="3" /> Every firstborn of<n id="4" /> your sons you must redeem.p>

You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl &#8211; the first row;

It must not be applied<n id="1" /> to people&#8217;s bodies, and you must not make any like it with the same recipe. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean,<n id="1" /> even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;