If a false<n id="1" /> witness testifies against another person and accuses him of a crime,<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Do not envy a violent man,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and do not choose to imitate<n id="2" /> any of his ways;p>

<p class="poetry">It is better for a person to meet<n id="1" /> a mother bear being robbed of her cubs,p> <p class="poetry">than<n id="2" /> to encounter<n id="3" /> a fool in his folly.<n id="4" />p>

So Abimelech commanded all the people, &#8220;Whoever touches<n id="1" /> this man or his wife will surely be put to death.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse<n id="1" /> on a tree,

<p class="poetry">Wait patiently for the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Wait confidently<n id="2" /> for him!p> <p class="poetry">Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">a man who carries out wicked schemes!p>

<p class="poetry">The people will treat each other harshly;p> <p class="poetry">men will oppose each other;p> <p class="poetry">neighbors will fight.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Youths will proudly defy the elderlyp> <p class="poetry">and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem have plotted rebellion against me!<n id="1" />

I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution,<n id="1" /> to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, &#8220;As surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives, the man who did this deserves to die!<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Seven women will grab hold ofp> <p class="poetry">one man at that time.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will say, &#8220;We will provide<n id="2" /> our own food,p> <p class="poetry">we will provide<n id="3" /> our own clothes;p> <p class="poetry">but let us belong to you<n id="4" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">take away our shame!&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword<n id="1" /> and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Out of our way!&#8221;<n id="1" /> they cried, and &#8220;This man came to live here as a foreigner,<n id="2" /> and now he dares to judge us!<n id="3" /> We&#8217;ll do more harm<n id="4" /> to you than to them!&#8221; They kept<n id="5" /> pressing in on Lot until they were close enough<n id="6" /> to break down the door.p>

I myself will set my face<n id="1" /> against that man and cut him off from the midst of his people,<n id="2" /> because he has given some of his children to Molech and thereby defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">A single witness may not testify<n id="1" /> against another person for any trespass or sin that he commits. A matter may be legally established<n id="2" /> only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Likewise, the most<n id="1" /> tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness,<n id="2" /> will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,

The <sc>Lordsc> will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger<n id="1" /> will rage<n id="2" /> against that man; all the curses<n id="3" /> written in this scroll will fall upon him<n id="4" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> will obliterate his name from memory.<n id="5" />

When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you.<n id="1" /> For the <sc>Lordsc> your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!

the Israelites counterattacked.<n id="1" /> Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites;<n id="2" /> they struck down<n id="3" /> about thirty men. They said, &#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.&#8221;

He told David,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live.<n id="2" /> Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.