When she had done so, ¹  she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”

The king longed ¹  to go to Absalom, for he had since been consoled over the death of Amnon. ² 

¹ So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses – they did it exactly so.

The Lord said to Moses, “Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end ¹  before me, that they will not die.” ²