<p class="bodytext">Then he put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

<p class="bodytext">So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.

<p class="poetry">Yet he protected<n id="1" /> the needy from oppression,p> <p class="poetry">and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.p>

But the overseer of the court officials renamed them. He gave<n id="1" /> Daniel the name Belteshazzar, Hananiah he named Shadrach, Mishael he named Meshach, and Azariah he named Abednego.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">And he put the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain,

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> lift up his countenance upon you<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and give you peace.&#8221;&#8217;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">King Ahasuerus then imposed forced labor on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

<p class="poetry">&#8220;If this is not so, who can prove me a liarp> <p class="poetry">and reduce my words to nothing?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Deliverance goes<n id="1" /> before him,p> <p class="poetry">and prepares<n id="2" /> a pathway for him.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> God planted an orchard<n id="1" /> in the east,<n id="2" /> in Eden;<n id="3" /> and there he placed the man he had formed.<n id="4" />

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth,<n id="1" /> and mourned for his son many days.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> set<n id="1" /> an appointed time, saying, &#8220;Tomorrow the <sc>Lordsc> will do this<n id="2" /> in the land.&#8221;

Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.

<p class="bodytext">Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it<n id="1" /> for washing.

He then set the breastpiece<n id="1" /> on him and put the Urim and Thummim<n id="2" /> into the breastpiece.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> put a message<n id="1" /> in Balaam&#8217;s mouth and said, &#8220;Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">That day Joshua drew up an agreement<n id="1" /> for the people, and he established rules and regulations<n id="2" /> for them in Shechem.

Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.p>

His concubine,<n id="1" /> who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech.<n id="2" />