So all the people got branches, every man cutting down a branch, and they went with Abimelech at their head and, massing the branches against the inner room, put fire to the room over them; so all those who were in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, were burned to death with it.
The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.
Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.
In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me.
For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.
This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:
And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean.
This is the law about the leper's disease in the thread of wool or linen material, in clothing or in anything of skin, saying how it is to be judged clean or unclean.
To make clear when it is unclean and when it is clean: this is the law about the disease of the leper.
Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.
And Moses made clear to the children of Israel the orders about the fixed feasts of the Lord.
But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.
Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,
Or anything about which he took a false oath; he will have to give it all back, with the addition of a fifth of its value, to him whose property it is, when he has been judged to be in the wrong.
And Aaron and his sons did all the things about which the Lord had given orders through Moses.
Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:
And it came about that he was in prayer in a certain place, and when he came to an end, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, will you give us teaching about prayer, as John did to his disciples?
And he was sending an evil spirit out of a man who was without the power of talking. And it came about that when the spirit had gone the man had the power of talking; and the people were full of wonder.
And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.
And when he had come out of that place, the scribes and the Pharisees came round him angrily, questioning him about more things;
Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time.
And when they take you before the Synagogues and the authorities and the rulers, take no thought about what answers you will give, or what you will say:
And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.
If, then, you are not able to do even that which is least, why are you troubled about the rest?
But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine;
So that you might have certain knowledge of those things about which you were given teaching.
And it came about that when he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees on the Sabbath, to have a meal, they were watching him.
And he sent for one of the servants, questioning him about what it might be.
And Mary was with her for about three months and then went back to her house.
And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.
And fear came on all those who were living round about them: and there was much talk about all these things in all the hill-country of Judaea.
And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come.
And it came about that when they were on the way to Jerusalem he went through Samaria and Galilee.
And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation:
Now it came about that in his turn he was acting as priest before God,
And it came about that when he got near Jericho, a certain blind man was seated by the side of the road, making requests for money from those who went by.
And it came about that when he got near Beth-phage and Bethany by the mountain which is named the Mountain of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,
And it came about on one of those days, when he was teaching the people in the Temple and preaching the good news,
Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;
Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.
So take care not to be troubled before the time comes, about what answers you will give:
But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.
But when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near.
And when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the keepers of the sheep said to one another, Let us go now to Beth-lehem, and see this thing which has come about, which the Lord has made clear to us.
And some were talking about the Temple, how it was made fair with beautiful stones and with offerings, but he said,
And when they saw it, they gave them an account of the things which had been said to them about the child.
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