or a hunchback, or a dwarf, ¹  or one with a spot in his eye, ²  or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, ³  or a crushed testicle.

Hurry and look ¹  at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple! ² 

If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, ¹  and he will not have to pay for what was torn.

You must not present to the Lord something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; ¹  you must not do this in your land.

He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.

Now if he has defrauded you of anything or owes you anything, charge what he owes ¹  to me.

The sun rose ¹  over him as he crossed over Penuel, ²  but ³  he was limping because of his hip.

(Now the ¹  flax and the barley were struck ²  by the hail, ³  for the barley had ripened ⁴  and the flax ⁵  was in bud.

One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, ¹  they began throwing the cargo overboard, ² 

Make room for us in your hearts; ¹  we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, ²  we have exploited no one. ³ 

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,

The priests should receive the silver they need from the treasurers and repair any damage to the temple they discover.” ¹ 

By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.

The priests agreed ¹  not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs. ² 

So God sent ¹  a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

No man from the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a physical flaw may step forward ¹  to present the Lord’s gifts; he has a physical flaw, so he must not step forward to present the food of his God.

Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. ¹  Mephibosheth was his name.

Once the satraps, prefects, governors, and ministers of the king had gathered around, they saw that those men were physically ¹  unharmed by the fire. ²  The hair of their heads was not singed, nor were their trousers damaged. Not even the smell of fire was to be found on them!

When the man ¹  saw that he could not defeat Jacob, ²  he struck ³  the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.