It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’”

“Do you think this to be ¹  just: when ²  you say, ‘My right before God.’ ³ 

“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

So she said to Abraham, “Banish ¹  that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”

So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that ¹  good land.

Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’” ¹ 

“‘People from other nations will pass by this city. They will ask one another, “Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?”

So you must keep ¹  this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year. ² 

“‘In this year of jubilee you must each return ¹  to your property.

“Separate yourselves ¹  from among this community, ²  that I may consume them in an instant.”

This woman’s child suffocated ¹  during the night when she rolled ²  on top of him.

So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.

You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’

“This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.

Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Acquire this young girl as my wife.” ¹ 

When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ¹  –

“Get away from this community, so that I can consume them in an instant!” But they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. ¹ 

Then Israel sang ¹  this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it!

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words: ¹