They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

Then ¹  the experts in the law ²  and the chief priests wanted to arrest ³  him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But ⁴  they were afraid of the people.

When ¹  the layer of dew had evaporated, ²  there on the surface of the desert was a thin flaky substance, ³  thin like frost on the earth.

You must place them ¹  in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant ²  where I meet with you.

The second lot belonged to the tribe of Simeon by its clans. ¹ 

In the middle of the night he was startled ¹  and turned over. ²  Now ³  he saw a woman ⁴  lying beside him! ⁵ 

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps ¹  and finished in the seventh month.

the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not confiscate their property.

Do you know how God commands them, ¹  how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud? ² 

the plague that comes in the darkness, or the disease that comes at noon. ¹ 

Those who are wise ¹  store up ²  knowledge, but foolish speech ³  leads to imminent ⁴  destruction.

I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, ¹  but is not rich toward God.”

But at his gate lay ¹  a poor man named Lazarus ²  whose body was covered with sores, ³ 

The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives.

David sent some messengers to get her. ¹  She came to him and he had sexual relations with her. ²  (Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) ³  Then she returned to her home.

But I warned them and said, ¹  “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” ²  From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath. ³ 

I have received a distressing message: ¹  “The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!” ² 

Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp ¹  against it! Post soldiers outside it ²  and station battering rams around it.

I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience ¹  my vengeance, declares the sovereign Lord.’”