there were 337,500 sheep from the portion belonging to the community,

Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed ¹  thirty cors ²  of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,

Hezekiah gave him all the silver in ¹  the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died. ¹ 

to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.

Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze. ¹ 

For they were under royal orders ¹  which determined their activity day by day. ² 

He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions ¹  spread over the land.

Fine gold cannot be given in exchange for it, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

Look, all of them are nothing, ¹  their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance. ² 

And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, ¹  worth less than a penny.

So ¹  the first one came before him and said, ‘Sir, ²  your mina ³  has made ten minas more.’

Then ¹  the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’

Then another ¹  slave ²  came and said, ‘Sir, here is ³  your mina that I put away for safekeeping ⁴  in a piece of cloth. ⁵ 

For Macedonia and Achaia are pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise! ¹ 

But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money – the full amount ¹  – in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it. ² 

“If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, ¹  but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides. ² 

or anything about which he swears falsely. ¹  He must restore it in full ²  and add one fifth to it; he must give it to its owner when he is found guilty. ³ 

And the people stayed up ¹  all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, ²  and they spread them out ³  for themselves all around the camp.