But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”

Is not wisdom found among the aged? ¹  Does not long life bring understanding?

O Lord, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you. ¹ 

Certainly ¹  the Lord does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him. ² 

This is the Lord’s gate – the godly enter through it.

We must pay money ¹  for our own water; ²  we must buy our own wood at a steep price. ³ 

“You are righteous, ¹  O Lord, but we are humiliated this day ²  – the people ³  of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

Now they understand ¹  that everything ²  you have given me comes from you,

to whom be glory forever and ever! Amen.

that the person dedicated to God ¹  may be capable ²  and equipped for every good work.

if he will sell ¹  me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly ²  for the full price, ³  so that I may own it as a burial site.”

When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? ¹  Set it here before my relatives and yours, ²  and let them settle the dispute between the two of us! ³ 

So Joseph made it a statute, ¹  which is in effect ²  to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

He must present one of each kind of grain offering ¹  as a contribution offering ²  to the Lord; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.

The person who eats meat from the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord while his uncleanness persists ¹  will be cut off from his people. ² 

Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, ¹  and they both ²  bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

The one caught with the riches ¹  must be burned up ²  along with all who belong to him, because he violated the Lord’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day ¹  because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel.

Indeed! All lives are mine – the life of the father as well as the life of the son is mine. The one ¹  who sins will die.

A total ruin I will make it! ¹  It will come to an end when the one arrives to whom I have assigned judgment.’ ²