Remember that you have made me as with ¹  the clay; will ²  you return me to dust?

Luxury is not appropriate ¹  for a fool; ²  how much less for a servant to rule over princes! ³ 

You counted the houses in Jerusalem, ¹  and demolished houses so you could have material to reinforce the wall. ² 

like the accounts ¹  passed on ²  to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word ³  from the beginning. ⁴ 

The city’s ¹  wall is made ²  of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass. ³ 

“You must no longer ¹  give straw to the people for making bricks ²  as before. ³  Let them go ⁴  and collect straw for themselves.

Everyone who had ¹  blue, purple, or ²  scarlet yarn, fine linen, goats’ hair, ram skins dyed red, or fine leather ³  brought them. ⁴ 

or in the warp or woof ¹  of the linen or the wool, or in leather or anything made of leather, ² 

the priest is to command that they wash whatever has the infection and quarantine it for another seven days. ¹ 

then the priest will command that two live clean birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, ¹  and some twigs of hyssop ²  be taken up ³  for the one being cleansed. ⁴ 

then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown ¹  outside the city ²  into an unclean place.

Then he is to have the house scraped ¹  all around on the inside, ²  and the plaster ³  which is scraped off ⁴  must be dumped outside the city ⁵  into an unclean place.

They must spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.

Then those in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers ¹  has failed! The debris is so great that we are unable to rebuild the wall.”

The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest ¹  gathers it for someone who is gracious ²  to the needy.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits ¹  of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

For you have not come to something that can be touched, ¹  to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

They made their lives bitter ¹  by ²  hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service ³  in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous. ⁴ 

For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a curtain of thirty feet, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and their four bases.

Every woman who was skilled ¹  spun with her hands and brought what she had spun, blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen,