⁵ The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.^(A)”

³ For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended.^(A)

6 Now the gates of Jericho^(A) were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.

²⁶ Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.”

¹⁰ Undoubtedly there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

⁴⁰ Cutting loose the anchors,^(A) they left them in the sea and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.

²⁵ They waited to the point of embarrassment,^(A) but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.

¹² It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven^(A) to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”^(B)

¹³ Nor is it beyond the sea,^(A) so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”^(B)