¹⁰ He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but now you are trying to get the priesthood too.^(A)

⁷ “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

² Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death.^(A)

⁷² He denied it again, with an oath: “I don’t know the man!”

⁷⁴ Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, “I don’t know the man!”

Immediately a rooster crowed.

³ A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn^(A) child is better off than he.^(B)