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Ask a QuestionAs they were emptying their sacks, there in each one's sack was his bag of money. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were dismayed.
They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die: it shall be a perpetual ordinance for them, for him and for his descendants throughout their generations.
Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their soul.
Their ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of their sight; as for their foes, they scoff at them.
The Lord sustains them on their sickbed; in their illness you heal all their infirmities.
In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing.
Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
they will live on the heights; their refuge will be the fortresses of rocks; their food will be supplied, their water assured.
Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels, and looked backward rather than forward.
Now their visage is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not follow the statutes of your parents, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord.
This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no holding in Israel; I am their holding.
for during a severe ordeal of affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
The Israelites then cried out to the Lord their God, for their courage failed, because all their enemies had surrounded them, and there was no way of escape from them.
and turn from their stubbornness and their wicked deeds; for they will remember the ways of their ancestors, who sinned before the Lord.
They were shut up by him in their towers; and he encamped against them, vowed their complete destruction, and burned with fire their towers and all who were in them.
"Go, declare to my people their evil deeds, and to their children the iniquities that they have committed against me, so that they may tell their children's children