She makes linen garments ¹  and sells them, and supplies the merchants ²  with sashes.

So they said to one another, ¹  “Let’s appoint ²  a leader ³  and return ⁴  to Egypt.”

He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for a king, ¹  she served him curds.

to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them. ¹ 

The earth yields its crops. May God, our God, bless us!

Poor dear Egypt ¹  will be put to shame. She will be handed over to the people from the north.”

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave ¹  me some fruit ²  from the tree and I ate it.”

If a land ¹  has been given into the hand of a wicked man, ²  he covers ³  the faces of its judges; ⁴  if it is not he, then who is it? ⁵ 

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath ¹  returns to God who gave it.

The people I call my own ¹  have turned on me like a lion ²  in the forest. They have roared defiantly ³  at me. So I will treat them as though I hate them. ⁴ 

They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

When the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.

He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died. ¹ 

I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.

The messengers ¹  scurried forth ²  with the king’s order. ³  The edict was issued in Susa the citadel. While the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in an uproar! ⁴ 

The couriers who were riding the royal horses went forth with the king’s edict without delay. ¹  And the law was presented in Susa the citadel as well.

The city is sure to fall into the hands of the Babylonians. ¹  Yet, in spite of this, ²  you, Lord God, ³  have said to me, “Buy that field with silver and have the transaction legally witnessed.”’” ⁴ 

You and your people ¹  are saying that this land will become desolate, uninhabited by either people or animals. You are saying that it will be handed over to the Babylonians. ²  But fields ³  will again be bought in this land. ⁴ 

He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.

So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because ¹  she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.) ²