You must not kindle a fire ¹  in any of your homes ²  on the Sabbath day.” ³ 

In all your landed property ¹  you must provide for the right of redemption of the land. ² 

You must send to the battle a thousand men from every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel.” ¹ 

Now King Hazael of Syria oppressed Israel throughout Jehoahaz’s reign. ¹ 

He is the Lord our God; he carries out judgment throughout the earth. ¹ 

King Ahasuerus then imposed forced labor on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

He is the Lord our God; he carries out judgment throughout the earth. ¹ 

So ¹  the news ²  about him spread into all areas of the region. ³ 

Now Joseph was 30 years old ¹  when he began serving ²  Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by ³  Pharaoh and was in charge of ⁴  all the land of Egypt.

Now the famine was severe in the land. ¹ 

Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the Lord to be kept for generations to come.”

“Tell Aaron, ‘No man from your descendants throughout their generations ¹  who has a physical flaw ²  is to approach to present the food of his God.

As the sun was setting, a cry went through the camp, “Each one should return to his city and to his homeland.”

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. ¹  Hazael attacked their eastern border. ² 

Within the territory of the tribe of Benjamin they were allotted ¹  Geba and its pasturelands, Alemeth and its pasturelands, and Anathoth and its pasturelands. Their clans were allotted thirteen cities in all.

This was to take place on a certain day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus – namely, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar).

I will call for a sword to attack ¹  Gog ²  on all my mountains, declares the sovereign Lord; every man’s sword will be against his brother.

And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisters ¹  in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, ² 

Resist him, ¹  strong in your faith, because you know ²  that your brothers and sisters ³  throughout the world ⁴  are enduring ⁵  the same kinds of suffering. ⁶ 

So they assembled ¹  all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us ²  and our ³  people!” The terror ⁴  of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there. ⁵