“But woe to you, experts in the law ¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! ²  You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! ³  For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in. ⁴ 

So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.

when you turn your rage ¹  against God and allow such words to escape ²  from your mouth?

But I will not remove ¹  my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise. ² 

For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees ¹  the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer ²  to enter your houses to strike you. ³ 

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, ¹  she did not allow the birds of the air to feed ²  on them by day, nor the wild animals ³  by night.

Moreover, you must season every one of your grain offerings with salt; you must not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be missing from your grain offering ¹  – on every one of your grain offerings you must present salt.

So ¹  he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. ²  But ³  he would not permit the demons to speak, ⁴  because they knew him. ⁵ 

Paul answered, ¹  “I am a Jew ²  from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. ³  Please ⁴  allow me to speak to the people.”

Sell me food for cash ¹  so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. ²  Just allow me to go through on foot,

The sleep of the laborer is pleasant – whether he eats little or much – but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Now when he came to the house, Jesus ¹  did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, ²  and James, and the child’s father and mother.

But Jesus ¹  said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, ²  but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” ³ 

For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate. ¹ 

In all your landed property ¹  you must provide for the right of redemption of the land. ² 

Saul retained David ¹  on that day and did not allow him to return to his father’s house.

She said, “Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”

Why ¹  has your heart carried you away, ²  and why do your eyes flash, ³ 

Bear with me ¹  and I ²  will speak, and after I have spoken ³  you may mock. ⁴ 

They allow their children to run ¹  like a flock; their little ones dance about.