⁵⁴ On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur,^(B) the leader of the people of Manasseh, brought his offering.

⁶⁰ On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni,^(C) the leader of the people of Benjamin, brought his offering.

Issachar

7 The sons of Issachar:^(A)

Benjamin

Naphtali

Manasseh

¹¹ “‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep^(A) and look after them. ¹² As a shepherd^(B) looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.^{(C) 13} I will bring them out from the nations and gather^(D) them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land.^(E) I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.^{(F) 14} I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel^(G) will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture^(H) on the mountains of Israel.^{(I) 15} I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down,^(J) declares the Sovereign Lord.^{(K) 16} I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up^(L) the injured and strengthen the weak,^(M) but the sleek and the strong I will destroy.^(N) I will shepherd the flock with justice.^(O)

¹⁷ “‘As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats.^{(P) 18} Is it not enough^(Q) for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet?^(R) Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? ¹⁹ Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

²⁰ “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says to them: See, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.^{(S) 21} Because you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak sheep with your horns^(T) until you have driven them away, ²² I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.^{(U) 23} I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend^(V) them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.^{(W) 24} I the Lord will be their God,^(X) and my servant David^(Y) will be prince among them.^(Z) I the Lord have spoken.^(AA)

²⁵ “‘I will make a covenant^(AB) of peace^(AC) with them and rid the land of savage beasts^(AD) so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety.^{(AE) 26} I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing.^[a](AF) I will send down showers in season;^(AG) there will be showers of blessing.^{(AH) 27} The trees will yield their fruit^(AI) and the ground will yield its crops;^(AJ) the people will be secure^(AK) in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke^(AL) and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.^{(AM) 28} They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety,^(AN) and no one will make them afraid.^{(AO) 29} I will provide for them a land renowned^(AP) for its crops, and they will no longer be victims of famine^(AQ) in the land or bear the scorn^(AR) of the nations.^{(AS) 30} Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them and that they, the Israelites, are my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.^{(AT) 31} You are my sheep,^(AU) the sheep of my pasture,^(AV) and I am your God, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

ר Resh

ש Sin and Shin

²⁹ But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

³⁰ “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.^{(A) 31} On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.^{(B) 32} Remember Lot’s wife!^{(C) 33} Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.^{(D) 34} I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”^{(E) [36] [a]}

³⁷ “Where, Lord?” they asked.

He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”^(F)

Instructions for Christian Living

¹⁷ So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer^(A) live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.^{(B) 18} They are darkened in their understanding^(C) and separated from the life of God^(D) because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.^{(E) 19} Having lost all sensitivity,^(F) they have given themselves over^(G) to sensuality^(H) so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

²⁰ That, however, is not the way of life you learned ²¹ when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. ²² You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off^(I) your old self,^(J) which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;^{(K) 23} to be made new in the attitude of your minds;^{(L) 24} and to put on^(M) the new self,^(N) created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.^(O)