<p class="poetry">Do not long for the cover of nightp> <p class="poetry">to drag people away from their homes.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">He led them with a cloud by day,p> <p class="poetry">and with the light of a fire all night long.p>

God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;Jacob, Jacob!&#8221; He replied, &#8220;Here I am!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Moses said, &#8220;Thus says the <sc>Lordsc>: &#8216;About midnight<n id="1" /> I will go throughout Egypt,<n id="2" />

Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal.<n id="1" />

In the middle of the night he was startled<n id="1" /> and turned over.<n id="2" /> Now<n id="3" /> he saw a woman<n id="4" /> lying beside him!<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">That night &#8211; let darkness seize<n id="1" /> it;p> <p class="poetry">let it not be included<n id="2" /> among the days of the year;p> <p class="poetry">let it not enter among the number of the months!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> let that night be barren;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">let no shout of joy<n id="3" /> penetrate<n id="4" /> it!p>

It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud<n id="1" /> and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other<n id="2" /> the whole night.<n id="3" />

The Gazites were told,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Samson has come here!&#8221; So they surrounded the town<n id="2" /> and hid all night at the city gate, waiting for him to leave.<n id="3" /> They relaxed<n id="4" /> all night, thinking,<n id="5" /> &#8220;He will not leave<n id="6" /> until morning comes;<n id="7" /> then we will kill him!&#8221;

Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left.<n id="1" /> He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all.<n id="2" /> He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let there be lights<n id="1" /> in the expanse<n id="2" /> of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs<n id="3" /> to indicate seasons and days and years,

God made two great lights<n id="1" /> &#8211; the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.<n id="2" />

They shouted to Lot,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex<n id="2" /> with them!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">But God appeared<n id="1" /> to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, &#8220;You are as good as dead<n id="2" /> because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else&#8217;s wife.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Be careful<n id="2" /> that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

It was a night of vigil for the <sc>Lordsc> to bring them out from the land of Egypt,<n id="1" /> and so<n id="2" /> on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil<n id="3" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> for generations to come.p>

He replied to them, &#8220;Stay<n id="1" /> here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the <sc>Lordsc> may speak to me.&#8221; So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

Now therefore, please stay<n id="1" /> the night here also, that I may know what more the <sc>Lordsc> might say to me.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">I lay flat on the ground before the <sc>Lordsc> for forty days and nights,<n id="1" /> for he<n id="2" /> had said he would destroy you.