Shake off the dirt! ¹  Get up, captive ²  Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

So the Lord said, ¹  “Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people. ² 

I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them ¹  firmly in the land.’

He has blocked ¹  every road I take ²  with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. ³ 

But take a few strands of hair ¹  from those and tie them in the ends of your garment. ² 

For I take no delight in the death of anyone, ¹  declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

Mark out the routes for the sword to take: “Rabbah of the Ammonites” and “Judah with Jerusalem in it.” ¹ 

Take the choice bone of the flock, heap up bones under it; boil rapidly, and boil its bones in it.

I granted ¹  you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!

Take away from me your ¹  noisy songs; I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments. ² 

And you must take ¹  for yourself every kind of food ²  that is eaten, ³  and gather it together. ⁴  It will be food for you and for them.

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her ¹  to be my wife? ²  Here is your wife! ³  Take her and go!” ⁴ 

The Lord ¹  said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Take ¹  three measures ²  of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.” ³ 

Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become ¹  the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.” ² 

Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game ¹  for me.

“I left secretly because I was afraid!” ¹  Jacob replied to Laban. “I thought ²  you might take your daughters away from me by force. ³ 

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize ¹  that God is witness to your actions.” ² 

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison ¹  while the rest of you go ²  and take grain back for your hungry families. ³ 

Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. ¹  Simeon is gone. ²  And now you want to take ³  Benjamin! Everything is against me.”