“‘For your eastern border you will draw a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.

Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

saying, ¹  “Don’t touch my anointed ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”

Will you keep to the old path ¹  that evil men have walked –

when I prescribed ¹  its limits, and set ²  in place its bolts and doors,

saying, ¹  “Don’t touch my chosen ²  ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”

I will meditate on ¹  your precepts and focus ²  on your behavior. ³ 

Gilead is a city full of evildoers; ¹  its streets are stained with bloody footprints! ² 

The Lord my God says this: “Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

so that times of refreshing ¹  may come from the presence of the Lord, ²  and so that he may send the Messiah ³  appointed ⁴  for you – that is, Jesus.

You also are among them, ¹  called to belong to Jesus Christ. ² 

even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

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

He who calls you is trustworthy, and he will in fact do this. ¹ 

Let me walk among ¹  all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, ²  and the spotted or speckled goats. ³  These animals will be my wages. ⁴ 

So I ¹  began to shepherd the flock destined for slaughter, the most afflicted ²  of all the flock. Then I took two staffs, ³  calling one “Pleasantness” ⁴  and the other “Binders,” ⁵  and I tended the flock.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, ¹  we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

When the sheep mated ¹  in front of the branches, they ²  gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

and you are to kill the ram and take its blood and splash it all around on the altar.