Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: ¹  Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like ²  a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?

When they ¹  moved, they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved; in the direction the head would turn they would follow ²  without turning as they moved,

and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle for the back side on the west.

You are to set up the courtyard around it and put the curtain at the gate of the courtyard.

If his head is bare on the forehead ¹  so that he is balding in front, ²  he is clean.

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

His troops ¹  advance together; they throw up ²  a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

But you, Lord, are a shield that protects me; ¹  you are my glory ²  and the one who restores me. ³ 

When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.

From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, ¹  those who pray to me ²  will bring me tribute.

His disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

He ¹  went into all the region around the Jordan River, ²  preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. ³ 

For from now on ¹  there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.

When his accusers stood up, they did not charge ¹  him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected. ² 

But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good. ¹ 

Take a branch of hyssop, ¹  dip it in the blood that is in the basin, ²  and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out ³  the door of his house until morning.

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 

So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip ¹  and slander among the people,

“‘For the prince there will be land on both sides of the holy allotment and the allotted city, alongside the holy allotment and the allotted city, on the west side and on the east side; it will be comparable in length to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border

Before they could lie down to sleep, ¹  all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house. ²