<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;These are the decisions that you will set before them:p>

<p class="poetry">Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that you must put<n id="2" /> me under guard?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do you know the laws of the heavens,p> <p class="poetry">or can you set up their rule over the earth?p>

you must select without fail<n id="1" /> a king whom the <sc>Lordsc> your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens<n id="2" /> you must appoint a king &#8211; you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.<n id="3" />

Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches<n id="1" /> from the top.<n id="2" /> Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

Then put<n id="1" /> my cup &#8211; the silver cup &#8211; in the mouth of the youngest one&#8217;s sack, along with the money for his grain.&#8221; He did as Joseph instructed.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail<n id="1" /> around your roof to avoid being culpable<n id="2" /> in the event someone should fall from it.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Look, I am making you like<n id="1" /> a sharp threshing sledge,p> <p class="poetry">new and double-edged.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You will thresh the mountains and crush them;p> <p class="poetry">you will make the hills like straw.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Though the <sc>Lordsc> desired to crush him and make him ill,p> <p class="poetry">once restitution is made,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he will see descendants and enjoy long life,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s purpose will be accomplished through him.p>

Mark out the routes for the sword to take: &#8220;Rabbah of the Ammonites&#8221; and &#8220;Judah with Jerusalem in it.&#8221;<n id="1" />

But today you have rejected your God who saves you from all your trouble and distress. You have said, &#8220;No!<n id="1" /> Appoint a king over us.&#8221; Now take your positions before the <sc>Lordsc> by your tribes and by your clans.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Ben Hadad<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;I will return the cities my father took from your father. You may set up markets<n id="2" /> in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Ahab then said, &#8220;I want to make a treaty with you before I dismiss you.&#8221;<n id="4" /> So he made a treaty with him and then dismissed him.p>

Groan in silence for the dead,<n id="1" /> but do not perform mourning rites.<n id="2" /> Bind on your turban<n id="3" /> and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip<n id="4" /> and do not eat food brought by others.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>