and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

I will look after their welfare and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land and will not uproot them.

For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

Joshua rewarded them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes.

Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

When the man overtook them, he spoke these words to them.

I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

The Lord made an agreement with them and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”

He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

I will signal for them and gather them, for I have already redeemed them; then they will become as numerous as they were before.

“‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them to the wilderness.

“Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. I will establish them, increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

He delivered them from the power of the one who hated them, and rescued them from the power of the enemy.

Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Now an argument started among the disciples as to which of them might be the greatest.