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They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.
They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.
When they arrived at Jerusalem, they worshiped God. As soon as the people were purified, they offered their burnt offerings, their freewill offerings, and their gifts.
you shall not bow down to their gods, or worship them, or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.
so that I, in turn, continued hostile to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,
you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.
for the tribe of the Reubenites by their ancestral houses and the tribe of the Gadites by their ancestral houses have taken their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh;
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; because the day of their calamity is at hand, their doom comes swiftly.
The enrollment of the priests was according to their ancestral houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upwards was according to their offices, by their divisions.
Next to them the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work of their Lord.
Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of their many transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,
Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her. They shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, all in their places.
Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their defeat means riches for Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!
Their heart is ashes, their hope is cheaper than dirt, and their lives are of less worth than clay,
those who led the people by their counsels and by their knowledge of the people's lore; they were wise in their words of instruction;
They suppressed their consciences and turned away their eyes from looking to Heaven or remembering their duty to administer justice.
For there shall be unrest among people; growing strong against one another, they shall in their might have no respect for their king or the chief of their leaders.
For the tyrant Antiochus, when he saw the courage of their virtue and their endurance under the tortures, proclaimed them to his soldiers as an example for their own endurance,