Those who are champions ¹  at drinking wine are as good as dead, ²  who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.

The punishment ¹  of Ephraim has been decreed; ²  his punishment is being stored up for the future.

Bunch yourselves together like straw, ¹  you undesirable ²  nation,

“The Lord who rules over all asserts, ‘I am about to save my people from the lands of the east and the west.

Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

Everyone ¹  ate and was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.

Now ¹  a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector ²  and was rich.

After several years ¹  I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor ²  and to present offerings, ³ 

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression ¹  either.

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

Now you are Christ’s body, and each of you is a member of it.

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

For he was still in his ancestor Abraham’s loins ¹  when Melchizedek met him.

Joseph ¹  collected all the excess food ²  in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities. ³  In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it.

Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, ¹  “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple ²  and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”

Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the required amount of silver and gold, but to meet Pharaoh’s demands Jehoiakim had to tax the land. He collected an assessed amount from each man among the people of the land in order to pay Pharaoh Necho. ¹ 

I also amassed silver and gold for myself, as well as valuable treasures ¹  taken from kingdoms and provinces. ²  I acquired male singers and female singers for myself, and what gives a man sensual delight ³  – a harem of beautiful concubines! ⁴ 

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. ¹  “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

As he went along, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax booth. ¹  “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him.