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Genesis Chapter 26

²⁶Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol the captain of his army. ²⁷Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

²⁸They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, between us and you, and let's make a covenant with you, ²⁹that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

³⁰He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. ³¹They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. ³²That same day, Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water." ³³He called it "Shibah". Therefore the name of the city is "Beersheba" to this day.

³⁴When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, [to be his] wife, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.

Genesis Chapter 27

¹When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

²He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death. ³Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt venison meat [for me]. ⁴Make me savory food, just like I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die."

⁵Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. ⁶Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father tell Esau your brother, saying, ⁷'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you in Yahweh's presence before my death.' ⁸Now therefore, my son, obey my voice in accordance with what I command you. ⁹Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, just like he loves. ¹⁰Bring it to your father to eat, so he would bless you before his death."

Judges Chapter 14

⁵Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared against him. ⁶The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done. ⁷He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well. ⁸After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. ⁹He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion. ¹⁰His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do. ¹¹When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

¹²Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing; ¹³but if you can't declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing." They said to him, "Put out your riddle, that we may hear it."

¹⁴He said to them,
"Out of the eater came out food.
Out of the strong came out sweetness."
They couldn't in three days declare the riddle. ¹⁵On the seventh day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not [so]?"

¹⁶Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You just hate me, and don't love me. You have put out a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me." He said to her, "Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"

¹⁷She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people. ¹⁸The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" He said to them, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have found out my riddle."

¹⁹The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their plunder, and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. His anger burned, and he went up to his father's house. ²⁰But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, who had been his friend.

Judges Chapter 15

¹But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the room." But her father wouldn't allow him to go in. ²Her father said, "I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead."

³Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them." ⁴Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails. ⁵When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

⁶Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" They said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion." The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

⁷Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease." ⁸He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. He went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

1 Chronicles Chapter 24

⁷Now the first lot came out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, ⁸the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, ⁹the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, ¹⁰the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, ¹¹the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, ¹²the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, ¹³the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, ¹⁴the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, ¹⁵the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, ¹⁶the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel, ¹⁷the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul, ¹⁸the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. ¹⁹This was the ordering of them in their service, to enter the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance [given] to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

²⁰Of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. ²¹Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. ²²Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. ²³The sons [of Hebron] were Jeriah [the chief], Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. ²⁴The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir. ²⁵The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah. ²⁶The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi; the son of Jaaziah was Beno. ²⁷The sons of Merari were, of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri. ²⁸Of Mahli were Eleazar, who had no sons. ²⁹Of Kish; the son of Kish was Jerahmeel. ³⁰The sons of Mushi were Mahli, Eder and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers' houses. ³¹They also cast lots, as their brothers the sons of Aaron [had done], in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' [households] of the priests and of the Levites; the chief fathers' [households] the same as those of his younger brother.

Matthew Chapter 26

¹When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, ²"You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."

³Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. ⁴They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him. ⁵But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."

⁶Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, ⁷a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. ⁸But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste? ⁹For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor."

¹⁰However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me. ¹¹For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me. ¹²For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. ¹³Absolutely I tell you, wherever this good-news is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her."

¹⁴Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests ¹⁵and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?" So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver. ¹⁶From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

¹⁷Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

¹⁸He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"

¹⁹The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.

²⁰Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. ²¹As they were eating, he said, "Absolutely I tell you that one of you will betray me."

²²They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, "It isn't me, is it, Lord?"

²³He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me. ²⁴The Son of Man goes even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."

²⁵Judas, who betrayed him, answered, "It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?"

He said to him, "You said it."