¹⁷ Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue^(A) and watered their flock.^(B)

³¹ The king stood by his pillar^(A) and renewed the covenant^(B) in the presence of the Lord—to follow^(C) the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.

⁶ So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.^(A)

¹⁷ So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials.^(A) Balak asked him, “What did the Lord say?”

Faith in the Incarnate Son of God

5 Everyone who believes^(A) that Jesus is the Christ^(B) is born of God,^(C) and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.^(D)

¹² Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

³¹ The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.^(A)

²⁹ The fear^(A) of God came on all the surrounding kingdoms when they heard how the Lord had fought^(B) against the enemies of Israel.

¹⁹ So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem.^(A) When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred^(B) because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”