They lie around on beds decorated with ivory, ¹  and sprawl out on their couches. They eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the middle of the pen.

In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,

Take note – I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: ¹ 

with the best ¹  of the ancient mountains and the harvest produced by the age-old hills;

David again assembled ¹  all the best ²  men in Israel, thirty thousand in number.

O children ¹  of Israel, God’s ²  servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s ³  chosen ones!

then the Almighty himself will be your gold, ¹  and the choicest ²  silver for you.

I will speak, ¹  so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.

to turn a person from his sin, ¹  and to cover a person’s pride. ² 

ס (Samek) I hate people with divided loyalties, ¹  but I love your law.

For they eat bread ¹  gained from wickedness ²  and drink wine obtained from violence. ³ 

Your ¹  silver has become scum, ²  your beer is diluted with water. ³ 

Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, ¹  ‘With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, ²  its thickest woods.

“Now, listen, Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!”

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.

We know, ¹  brothers and sisters ²  loved by God, that he has chosen you, ³ 

Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. ¹  He journeyed ²  to the region of Aram Naharaim ³  and the city of Nahor.

“Take ¹  choice spices: ²  twelve and a half pounds ³  of free-flowing myrrh, ⁴  half that – about six and a quarter pounds – of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,

If he presents it on account of thanksgiving, ¹  along with the thank offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil, ²  and well soaked ³  ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flour ⁴  mixed with olive oil.