After these things happened, the cupbearer ¹  to the king of Egypt and the royal baker ²  offended ³  their master, the king of Egypt.

They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

They answered him, “Why does my lord say such things? ¹  Far be it from your servants to do such a thing! ² 

After these things Joseph was told, ¹  “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

“You must not follow a crowd ¹  in doing evil things; ²  in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice, ³ 

the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the Holy Place. They will make all these things just as I have commanded you.”

Moses assembled the whole community of the Israelites and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. ¹ 

or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely ¹  concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin ²  –

However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs ¹  to hop with on the land.

“‘Now this is what is unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the land: ¹  the rat, the mouse, the large lizard of any kind,

These are the ones that are unclean to you among all the swarming things. Anyone who touches them when they die will be unclean until evening.

Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. ¹  You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them,

“‘If, in spite of all these things, ¹  you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins. ² 

“‘If in spite of these things ¹  you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me, ² 

The appointed responsibilities of the Merarites included the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, its utensils, plus all the service connected with these things, ¹ 

But the Kohathites ¹  are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried ¹  on their shoulders, was their responsibility. ² 

And if you come with us, it is certain ¹  that whatever good things the Lord will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”

“‘Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ¹  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ²