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Ask a QuestionHer nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns, they find no water, they return with their vessels empty. They are ashamed and dismayed and cover their heads,
Mortal, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and placed their iniquity as a stumbling block before them; shall I let myself be consulted by them?
The sword rages in their cities, it consumes their oracle-priests, and devours because of their schemes.
They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, to which their own conscience also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them
But the discordant cry of their enemies echoed back, and their piteous lament for their children was spread abroad.
Nevertheless those of other races paid no heed to their good service to their nation, which was common talk among all;
There they celebrated their deliverance, for the king had generously provided all things to them for their journey until all of them arrived at their own houses.
as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.
They shall not make bald spots upon their heads, or shave off the edges of their beards, or make any gashes in their flesh.
Moses wrote down their starting points, stage by stage, by command of the Lord; and these are their stages according to their starting places.
Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, their clusters are bitter;
These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of Kohathites--for the lot fell to them first--
and their kindred according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these were heads of families according to their ancestral houses.
then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
They pledged themselves to send away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.
You gave your good spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and gave them water for their thirst.
Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.
who do not slander with their tongue, and do no evil to their friends, nor take up a reproach against their neighbors;
Their feet run to evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways.