He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the Lord a proper offering.

He proclaimed, ¹  “One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy ²  to bend down and untie the strap ³  of his sandals.

It was appropriate ¹  to celebrate and be glad, for your brother ²  was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’” ³ 

idolatry, sorcery, ¹  hostilities, ²  strife, ³  jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, ⁴  factions,

Aaron is to lay his two hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities of the Israelites and all their transgressions in regard to all their sins, ¹  and thus he is to put them ²  on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man standing ready. ³ 

“I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am – I am not worthy ¹  to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. ² 

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. ¹  God saw that it was good.

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. ¹  I will make a companion ²  for him who corresponds to him.” ³ 

You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come ¹  halfway up the altar. ² 

with ¹  twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

the pure ¹  lampstand, its lamps, with the lamps set in order, and all its accessories, and oil for the light;

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ¹ 

So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah. ¹ 

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ¹ 

From Asher there were 40,000 warriors prepared for battle.

O Lord, ¹  I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

Because he covered his face with fat, ¹  and made ²  his hips bulge with fat, ³ 

he lived in ruined towns ¹  and in houses where ²  no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps. ³ 

Examine me, O Lord, and test me! Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives! ¹ 

The Lord promotes ¹  equity and justice; the Lord’s faithfulness extends throughout the earth. ²