And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab.’ ”

So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him.

And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer.

Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned.

There is a generation that curses its father,And does not bless its mother.

One generation shall praise Your works to another,And shall declare Your mighty acts.

These were the ones who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

“And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.

Then the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “Behold, in my dream a vine was before me,