Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?

For he was still in his ancestor Abraham’s loins ¹  when Melchizedek met him.

Joseph ¹  collected all the excess food ²  in the land of Egypt during the seven years and stored it in the cities. ³  In every city he put the food gathered from the fields around it.

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.

Solomon accumulated ¹  chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. ² 

I also amassed silver and gold for myself, as well as valuable treasures ¹  taken from kingdoms and provinces. ²  I acquired male singers and female singers for myself, and what gives a man sensual delight ³  – a harem of beautiful concubines! ⁴ 

and you are to kill the ram and take its blood and splash it all around on the altar.

Everyone ¹  ate and was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled ¹  was not able to support them because of their livestock.

Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, ¹  until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

besides what he collected from the merchants, ¹  traders, Arabian kings, and governors of the land.

He gathered some men and organized a raiding band. ¹  When David tried to kill them, ²  they went to Damascus, where they settled down and gained control of the city.

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

I also provided for ¹  the wood offering at the appointed times and also for the first fruits. Please remember me for good, O my God.

Even when an army is deployed against me, I do not fear. ¹  Even when war is imminent, ²  I remain confident. ³ 

You keep track of my misery. ¹  Put my tears in your leather container! ²  Are they not recorded in your scroll? ³ 

Not only was the Teacher wise, ¹  but he also taught knowledge to the people; he carefully evaluated ²  and arranged ³  many proverbs.

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.