It eats away parts of his skin; ¹  the most terrible death ²  devours his limbs.

I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. ¹ 

Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. ¹  Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. ² 

The king replied ¹  to the wise men, “My decision is firm. ²  If you do not inform me of both the dream and its interpretation, you will be dismembered ³  and your homes reduced to rubble!

Certainly ¹  no man who has a physical flaw is to approach: a blind man, or one who is lame, or one with a slit nose, ²  or a limb too long,

I hereby decree ¹  that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes ²  the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.”

Each one will be handed over to the sword; ¹  their corpses will be eaten by jackals. ² 

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

As for an ox ¹  or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, ²  you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering. ³ 

Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, ¹  and its shoots the Euphrates River. ² 

For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.

So now there are many members, but one body.

He recognized it and exclaimed, “It is my son’s tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! ¹  Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

He struck them down and defeated them. ¹  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Yet ¹  God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. ²  He will scoop you up ³  and remove you from your home; ⁴  he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

The Lover to His Beloved: (7:2) How beautiful are your sandaled ¹  feet, O nobleman’s daughter! ²  The curves ³  of your thighs ⁴  are like jewels, the work of the hands of a master craftsman.

Then all the color drained from the king’s face ¹  and he became alarmed. ²  The joints of his hips gave way, ³  and his knees began knocking together.

and make straight paths for your feet, ¹  so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives; ¹  Naphtali charged on to the battlefields. ²