“This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall, ¹ 

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

The stands were constructed with frames between the joints.

The king of Assyria was told, ¹  “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people ²  because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.”

They ¹  also asked them, “What are the names of the men who are building this edifice?”

Her ways are very pleasant, ¹  and all her paths are peaceful.

(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.) ¹ 

For ¹  a period of about forty years he put up with ²  them in the wilderness. ³ 

When his master heard his wife say, ¹  “This is the way ²  your slave treated me,” ³  he became furious. ⁴ 

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 

Then Pharaoh also summoned wise men and sorcerers, ¹  and the magicians ²  of Egypt by their secret arts ³  did the same thing.

for I am the Lord your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations ¹  in all the places where you live.

Manoah said, “Now, when your announcement comes true, ¹  how should the child be raised and what should he do?” ² 

So Hushai came to Absalom. Absalom said to him, “Here is what Ahithophel has advised. Should we follow his advice? If not, what would you recommend?”

He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.

You also have available many workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters, ¹  and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled

The king then inquired of the wise men who were discerners of the times – for it was the royal custom to confer with all those who were proficient in laws and legalities. ¹ 

Our storehouses ¹  will be full, providing all kinds of food. ²  Our sheep will multiply by the thousands and fill ³  our pastures. ⁴ 

wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians ¹  whose native land is Chaldea.