The sticks you write on will be in your hand in front of them.

A person who has friends ¹  may be harmed by them, ²  but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

When the Israelites were ¹  in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. ² 

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community.

When Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood ¹  and was putting it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you are coming after me with sticks?” ¹  Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

The roof of my mouth ¹  is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. ²  You ³  set me in the dust of death. ⁴ 

She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.” ¹ 

So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, “Please give me a cup ¹  of water, so I can take a drink.”

When the stronger females were in heat, ¹  Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.

The worthless idols will be completely eliminated. ¹ 

ד (Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, ¹  but no one gives them even a morsel. ² 

You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume. ¹ 

Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, ¹ 

The Lord protects those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.

Like a madman ¹  who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows, ² 

The people of those nations ¹  are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless! ² 

But Jacob took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees. He made white streaks by peeling them, making the white inner wood in the branches visible.

Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink. ¹ 

This is how you are to eat it – dressed to travel, ¹  your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. ²