It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate. ¹ 

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant ¹  man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Like obedient children, do not comply with ¹  the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance, ² 

Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning ¹  evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.

But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Since they didn’t go with us, ¹  we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”

the king summoned ¹  Shimei and said to him, “You will recall ²  that I made you take an oath by the Lord, and I solemnly warned you, ‘If you ever leave and go anywhere, ³  know for sure that you will certainly die.’ You said to me, ‘The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.’ ⁴ 

Your thinking is perverse! ¹  Should the potter be regarded as clay? ²  Should the thing made say ³  about its maker, “He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?

The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made ¹  of gold, silver, ²  bronze, stone, and wood – idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. ¹  So Cain became very angry, ²  and his expression was downcast. ³ 

Then Jacob woke up ¹  and thought, ²  “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”

But ¹  the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. ² 

but those ¹  who did not take ²  the word of the Lord seriously left their servants and their cattle ³  in the field.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.

So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.

On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing.

Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears! ¹ 

The men examined ¹  some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the Lord’s advice. ² 

Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them ¹