In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, ¹  and you sinned; so I defiled you and banished you ²  from the mountain of God – the guardian cherub expelled you ³  from the midst of the stones of fire.

So Paul left the Areopagus. ¹ 

Day and night they walk around on its walls, ¹  while wickedness and destruction ²  are within it.

For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”

Do not let them depart ¹  from your sight, guard ²  them within your heart; ³ 

You make us like filthy scum ¹  in the estimation ²  of the nations.

¹ Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.

So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall ¹  for them on their right and on their left.

The Egyptians chased them and followed them into the middle of the sea – all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.

You must serve ¹  the Lord your God, and he ²  will bless your bread and your water, ³  and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Be careful not to make ¹  a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare ²  among you.

You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that ¹  they will not defile their camps, among which I live.”

And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, ¹  and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning. ² 

Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything – only a voice was heard. ¹ 

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

Who is there from the entire human race ¹  who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages ¹  he prefers; you must not oppress him.

After all, ¹  they are your people and your special possession ²  whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace. ³ 

At that time there will be an altar for the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, as well as a sacred pillar ¹  dedicated to the Lord at its border.

But as soon as they were inside the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw their bodies ¹  in a cistern.