“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

<p class="bodytext">These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their leaders, had assigned responsibilities, like their relatives, as they served in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.p>

so that they may be offering incense to the God of heaven and may be praying for the good fortune of the king and his family.<n id="1" />p>

and to bring silver and gold which the king and his advisers have freely contributed to the God of Israel, who resides in Jerusalem,

Then in a night vision the mystery was revealed to Daniel. So Daniel praised<n id="1" /> the God of heaven,

<p class="poetry">&#8216;Don&#8217;t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,&#8217; they say excitedly.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;These prophets should not preach of such things;p> <p class="poetry">we will not be overtaken by humiliation.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Laban replied<n id="1" /> to Jacob, &#8220;These women<n id="2" /> are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren,<n id="3" /> and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today<n id="4" /> or the children to whom they have given birth?

Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse<n id="1" /> and will say<n id="2" /> to the her, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> make you an attested curse<n id="3" /> among your people,<n id="4" /> if the <sc>Lordsc> makes<n id="5" /> your thigh fall away<n id="6" /> and your abdomen swell;<n id="7" />

When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness &#8211; her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

Micaiah<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8216;They have no master. They should go home in peace.&#8217;&#8221;

Micaiah<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8216;They have no master. They should go home in peace.&#8217;&#8221;

But after our ancestors<n id="1" /> angered the God of heaven, he delivered them into the hands<n id="2" /> of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and exiled the people to Babylon.<n id="3" />

Whatever is needed &#8211; whether oxen or rams or lambs or burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by<n id="1" /> the priests who are in Jerusalem &#8211; must be given to them daily without any neglect,

I will chase after them with war,<n id="1" /> starvation, and disease. I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to them. I will make them examples of those who are cursed, objects of horror, hissing scorn, and ridicule among all the nations where I exile them.

For<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="2" /> says, &#8216;If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem.<n id="3" /> You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.<n id="4" /> You will never see this place again.&#8217;<n id="5" />p>

I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go<n id="1" /> and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle<n id="2" /> or perish from starvation. People of every class<n id="3" /> will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.<n id="4" />