When you finish reading this scroll aloud, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River. ¹ 

As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.” ¹ 

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, ¹  killed another, and stoned another.

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

They had been asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

But ¹  when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled back.

The devil said to him, “If ¹  you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” ² 

and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” ¹ 

He answered, ¹  “I tell you, if they ²  keep silent, the very stones ³  will cry out!”

In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death ¹  such women. ²  What then do you say?”

“‘A man or woman who ¹  has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit ²  must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; ³  their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone ¹  him with stones outside the camp.”

No one will use any of your stones as a cornerstone. No one will use any of them in the foundation of his house. For you will lie desolate forever,” ¹  says the Lord. ² 

So Moses ¹  cut out two tablets of stone like the first; ²  early in the morning he went up ³  to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

You are to put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron will bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial. ¹ 

David reached his hand into the bag and took out a stone. He slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank deeply into his forehead, and he fell down with his face to the ground.

As for the stone ¹  I have set before Joshua – on the one stone there are seven eyes. ²  I am about to engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. ³ 

You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; ¹  you are to have them set ²  in gold filigree ³  settings.