“You shall not set up a sacred post; any kind of pole beside the altar of your God that you may make. Or erect a monument; for such your God detests” Deuteronomy 16:21-22
“Build towns for your children and sheepfolds for your flocks, but do what you have promised” Numbers 32:24
“And see what kind of country it is. Are the people who dwell in it strong or weak, few or many? Is the country in which they dwell good or bad? Are the towns they live in open or fortified?” Numbers 13:18-19
“My Sabbaths shall you observe and My Sanctuary shall you revere, I am the Lord” Leviticus 26:2
“The Israelites had done Moses’s bidding and borrowed from the Egyptians objects of silver and gold, and clothing. And the Lord had disposed the Egyptians favourably toward the people... thus they stripped the Egyptians" Exodus 12:35-36
“When a person presents an offering of meal to God, the offering shall be of choice flour, the offerer shall pour oil upon it, lay frankincense on it” Leviticus 2:1
“Overlay it with pure gold, overlay it inside and out, and make upon it a gold moulding round about” Exodus 25:11
“Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he is coming out of the water and station yourself before him at the edge of the Nile, taking with you the rod that turned into a snake” Exodus 7:15
“There is no one greater in this home than me” Genesis 39:9
“See now, I have two daughters who had never been intimate with a man, I will bring them out to you so you can do with them whatever you like, but do not do anything to these men, as they come under the shelter of my roof” Genesis 19:8
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