And I will drive you out of my sight just like I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel.’” ¹ 

I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.’” ¹ 

She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, ¹  and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

In the first year of Darius ¹  son of Ahasuerus, ²  who was of Median descent and who had been ³  appointed king over the Babylonian ⁴  empire –

“We are descendants ¹  of Abraham,” they replied, ²  “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ³  ‘You will become free’?”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. ¹  But you want ²  to kill me, because my teaching ³  makes no progress among you. ⁴ 

But God spoke as follows: ‘Your ¹  descendants will be foreigners ²  in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years. ³ 

By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, ¹  he received the ability to procreate, ²  because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests. ¹ 

¹ “For six years ²  you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

No man ¹  from the descendants of Aaron who is diseased or has a discharge ²  may eat the holy offerings until he becomes clean. The one ³  who touches anything made unclean by contact with a dead person, ⁴  or a man who has a seminal emission, ⁵ 

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the Lord saying, ‘The Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”(21:1) ¹ Then David ²  got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.

Their children ¹  are firmly established in their presence, ²  their offspring before their eyes.

Their bulls ¹  breed ²  without fail; ³  their cows calve and do not miscarry.

then let me sow ¹  and let another eat, and let my crops ²  be uprooted.

See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies – ¹ 

All day long he shows compassion and lends to others, ¹  and his children ²  are blessed.

The godly bask in the light; the morally upright experience joy. ¹ 

They cultivated ¹  fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit. ² 

Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest. ¹